It was another great day at Sportshall in Preston this Sunday with our Lancaster and Morecambe Athletics Club athletes demonstrating their all-round abilities in indoor running, jumping and throwing.

The Lancaster and Morecambe Athletics Club’s team of indoor sportshall athletes has achieved great results in both of the first two Lancashire County Sportshall League competitions of the season. 

As the Sportshall season draws to a close for 2018-19,

The final race in the English junior fell running championships,

Saturday 14th April saw a number of Junior Lancaster and Morecambe members and their families making the journey to the village of Blacko for the second race in the English Junior Fell Running Championships.

A very rainy day in Blackburn and 22 of our athletes ventured to the first Mid Lancs Track & Field competition of the season

The English National Cross Country Championships this year took place at historic Parliament Hill Fields.

At 6.30am on Saturday 4th November five Lancaster & Morecambe AC Junior Teams set out to compete in the English National cross country relay championships held at Berry Park in Mansfield.

On Saturday 14th October 2017 the first Mid Lancs Cross country League fixture took place in a very muddy Cueren Valley Park, near Leyland.

An excellent day for our athletes topped off the end of the Mid Lancs T&F season 2016 with medals by the dozen. 

PBs

Amy Bennett – Dis: 17.07

Jack Garwood – 800m: 2:18.9

Rhys Ashton – 1500m: 4.50.0

Kirsty Maher – LJ: 2.72

Tobias Swarbrick – 1500m: 4:49.5 (8 secs off PB)

Eddie Gill – 200m: 28.6

Will Pyle – 3000m: 10:03.8 (32 secs off his PB)

First Performances

Izzy Kerfoot – 100m: 14.8

James Stanley – Jav: 34.66

Kirsty Maher – 200m: 34.4; 800m: 2:51.0

Medals Totals

Gold: 8   - Erin Moffatt: HJ; James Stanley: 800m, Jav, Grace Wakeman: 200m; Eddie Gill: HJ, SP, 200m; Will Pyle: 300m

Silver: 2   - Grace Wakeman: 100m; Tobias Swarbrick: 1500m

Bronze: 5   - Erin Moffatt: LJ; Jack Garwood: 800m, Freddie Pearson: 100m, 800m; Jack Newton: LJ; U15G 4x100mR team (Candice Craven, Abby Macpherson, Amy Bennett & Erin Moffatt)

Fifteen athletes went to a very wet Witton Park in Blackburn on this Bank Holiday weekend at the end of April to compete in the second Mid Lancs fixture of the season.

Well done to all 27 athletes who represented the club at this event on a rather cold Blackpool day.

On Saturday 16th January, our athletes were once again busy with competition both indoor and outdoor.

On Saturday 16th January, our athletes were once again busy with competition both indoor and outdoor.

Freddie Pearson was selected to represent Lancashire in the North- West Under 11 Inter Counties Sportshall Competition at Sportcity in Freddie certainly justified his first county selection winning the speed bounce and being part of the team that won the two lap relay. He was also 4^th in the 3 lap relay and 7^th in the javelin.

On a weekend when many sporting events were cancelled, Cross Country went ahead and the rest of the squad were in action in the fourth round of the Mid Lancs Cross country League at Hyndburn .

Congratulations are due to all who took part, however particularly strong were the  

U15 boys who took the 1^st team slot. James Stanley more commonly seen excelling on the track showed he could also perform over the Country taking 2^nd place. Will Howard’s consistent season continued with 6^th place, Shea Hannam was 7^th and Matthew Bunce 19^th.

In second spot overall were the U13 girls. Erin Moffatt again took 2nd spot and was well backed up by Sasha Oldham 12^th, Larissa Hannam 19^th, Mia Brayshaw 23^rd, Kirsty Hamilton 25^th and  Holly Satterly 32^nd  .

The U13 boys were 7^th Team with Willaim Pyle continuing to show promise in 2^nd place. Tim Woodman finished 24^th and Alex Blessington 35^th.

Also in 7^th place were the U11 boys with Toby Swarbick 4^th, Jacob Preston 37^th and Zach Earnshaw 39^th .

It was good to see a stronger U11 girls’ presence with Kirsty Maher 17^th, Cleo Hanafin 19^th, Amelie Earnshaw 29^th, 55^th Alana Smith and 56^th Charlotte Haines taking 4^th place overall.

Georgia Hannam finished in 2^nd place in the Junior Women’s race and also formed part of the Senior women’s team who together with Hannah Bateson and Gill Hamilton took 10^th position. U15 Girl  Isabelle Woodman  finished 8^th and U17 Men Tom Bowe finished 7^th with Joseph Twigg 10^th .

Only two Senior Men toes the line with Chris Pyle finishing 15^th Vet 40 and Graham Hodgson 42^nd Vet 50.

The next time the athletes will be running in the mud is on Saturday 30^th January 2016 Northern Cross Country Championships, which are taking place at Witton Park in Blackburn.

On Saturday 28th November the second stage in the British Athletics Cross Challenge took place incorporating the trials for the European cross country championships.

On Sunday 8th November a small contingent of 12 Lancaster & Morecambe AC Junior Athletes travelled to Blackpool for the first round of the Lancashire Sportshall League.  Despite being such a small team the athletes gave everything they had and finished a credible 5th overall out of 7 teams.

LMAC athletes have had some great end of T&F season successes in the last few weeks. Rain or shine never stop our bright young talent.

Well done to all athletes who have competed in this the final Mid Lancs T&F of the season. 

On Saturday (30th May) LMACs Junior athletes travelled to Stretford for the second round of the National Youth Development League. With the club being in Division 1 of the league this was always going to be a tough fixture but the high level of competition brought out the best in the youngsters.

It was a brilliant weekend for our club in the Lancashire T&F championship with 8 athletes competing throughout the weekend in beautiful Blackpool weather. 

PBs

Erin Moffatt – 200m: 30.7

Erin Moffatt – LJ: 4.50m    Gold Medal   G1

Amy Bennett – 100m: 15.0

Amy Bennett – 200m (Heat): 30.6   G4

Imogen Graham – 75mH: 13.5

Imogen Graham – 100m: 14.9   (PB=)

Imogen Graham – LJ: 4.42m

Sam Higginson – 100m (Heat): 12.3

Sam Higginson – 100m (Final): 12.4

Sam Higginson – 200m: 25.0

Sam Mercer – 200m (Heat): 28.5

Sam Mercer – LJ: 4.73m   Bronze Medal

Mary Hodgson – 3000m: 10:16.4   Gold Medal   G3

James Stanley – 800m (Final): 2:16.9   G4

First Performances

Erin Moffatt – 1500m: 5:22.3   G3

Amy Bennett – SP: 4.86m

Other performances

Erin Moffatt – HJ: 1.33m   Silver Medal   G3

Erin Moffatt – 800m (Heat): 2:43.9     (Final): 5:46.3

Amy Bennett – 200m (Final): 31.6

Sam Mercer – 200m (Final): 29.1

James Stanley – 800m (Heat): 2:18.8

A special mention to Kirsty Hamilton who got a PB in her 1500m with a time of 5:16.7 earning herself a Grade 3 performance and a Gold Medal. She smashed her PB by over 10 seconds.

Thank you to all 8 athletes and the 3 officials who attended this year’s championships. You’ve represented the club very well. 3 Gold medals, 1 Silver Medal and 1 Bronze medal.

It's been a busy weekend for our elder Junior atheltes. And there's more to come. 

Well done to all 15 athletes who competed in the Mid Lancs in Litherland. A great day for us as a team with some excellent performances, some PBs topped off with a beautiful day of sunshiine. 

Our Junior athletes have been very busy recently with awards ceremonies from the Cross Country season and now progressing into the Track & Field along with Fell running seasons.

Very well done to all 26 athletes who competed for LMAC in the glorious sunshine. 

13 LMAC athletes endure 19 top 10 place finishes in their events in Blackpool. 

Two members of Lancaster and Morecambe AC were selected to represent the Lancashire Schools’ Cross country team and four the Cumbrian Schools’ team for the English Schools Cross Country on Saturday at Witton Park, Blackburn.