East Kilbride Athletics Club president hails medal haul amid good season that 'has been coming'

East Kilbride Athletics Membership took a person gold and two workforce bronze medals from the TruWealthRoad Younger Athletes Street Races in Greenock this month.

Angus Wilkinson gained the under-13 boys’ 3km race, whereas the under-13 boys’ workforce of Angus, Rory Charters and Ben Baillie, and the under-15 ladies’ workforce of Rhianna Docherty, Aimee Anderson and Amy Andrew each gained bronze.

Membership president and coach Gordon Colvin says it has been a superb season for the membership and for Angus Wilkinson particularly.

He stated: “We had a gold particular person and two bronze workforce medals. We had numerous different good outcomes, I believe we had six folks within the prime 10 over the six races, and 10 within the prime 20, so good outcomes total.

“We’re having a superb season to this point, it has been coming for a short while. We've got some actually good teams, with plenty of younger athletes coaching with one another and pushing one another on.

“It goes again to December on the Western Districts Cross Nation Championships in Balloch, Angus Wilkinson gained the under-13 boys’ race.

“We had fairly a number of others who ran effectively and gained workforce medals, and that was the West of Scotland. We then had the Lanarkshire Cross Nation Championships in February and fairly a number of younger athletes gained medals there as effectively.

“On the Scottish Cross Nation Championships Angus once more gained the gold medal, so he has finished fantastically effectively this season.”

Gordon says Angus has began profitable medals on the first degree he is ready to, and hopes that conjures up different children.

He stated: “On the under-13 age group, which is the primary age group the place you've gotten Scottish Championships, Angus has gained nearly all the things he has entered.

“He's sure to encourage different younger athletes they usually’re producing performances as effectively, so it’s nice for all of them. They’re such a superb group of youngsters they usually have some improbable coaches.

“We hope to construct on this for the remainder of the yr, as we transition from the street and cross nation season, notably for the children who're shifting on to the monitor season.”

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