Young Lochaber athletes finish season on medal note

The last track and field competition of the year ended on a high for two young Lochaber athletes.

 

Competing at the North Area Trophy meet in Inverness, Lochaber Athletic Club's Maddison Macmillan broke personal bests and brought home silverware.

 

Twelve-year-old Maddison, a stalwart of the junior team for four years, qualified for the final of the 100 metres where she placed third with a personal best time. Maddison followed her track success with a leap of four metres 15cms in her favourite event, the long jump, to win silver.

 

Maddison told her coaches she was delighted and happy with her sprinting and jumping at the end of her track and field season and was looking forward to more running and jumping in the next year.

 

"attachment_603483" "" "198"] Aaron Tresidder competing in 2021. NO_F47_LAC_AaronTresidder

 

Ten-year-old Aaron Tresidder tackled the sprint double, 100 and 200 metres, coming  sixth and fourth respectively. The highlight of his day came in the 800 metres.

 

Aaron stayed with the leader, who had edged him out previously, and stuck with him for 400m. The LAC youngster went through the bell at one minute five seconds and tried to overtake with 200m to go but drifted back with 100m left. However, in the last 30m Aaron pulled back most of the gap and finished just over a metre behind the winner.

 

The clock had stopped at 2.37 for the first athlete and Aaron was less than half a second behind in 2.37:56. This was a big improvement in his personal best of 2:44 and, in his own words, he was 'really pleased with that'.

 

Aaron is looking forward to taking on athletes from the north in cross country running over the winter.

 

Photographs

 

NO_F40_MaddisonMacmillan: Maddison Macmillan with the bronze and silver medals she won in Inverness.

 

NO_F47_LAC_AaronTresidder (November 2021): Aaron Tresidder competing in 2021.