Ladies Team (by Hayley Kandt)
Congrats to our Ladies Vets XC team on bringing home our very first met league trophy by winning Division 2 getting promoted to Division 1!
Smashing result for our ladies side this year! Ladies A came 2nd in div 2 and have been promoted to Divison 1!! And ladies B came 2nd in div 3 and have moved into Divison 2!!
Mens Team (by Kieren Santry)
The men’s A team finished in 4th place in division 2 which is our highest ever finished.
There were some early season concerns that our B team would get relegated from div 2 but its shows the strengths and depth we now have in the club as we finished in 10th place and comfortably avoided the drop.
Our C team finished the year 7th in Division 3.
The Vets are ever improving with age and ended up 4th in what is a very competitive division 2. Again this was our highest vets position.
A few stats from the Eagles MET league season
Number of Male Runners per fixture
Claybury 20
Welwyn 45
Uxbridge 42
Alexandra Palace 40
Trent Park 28
75 men competed in at least one race with the hardcore 5 of John Foxall, Jose Pabon, Sam Royle, Chris Jones & Andrew Williamson racing all 5 fixtures.
There were 4 different 1st Eagle finishers John Foxall x 2, Jack, George Roberts and Will Adolphy.
Our 6 year MET League History
2015 Division 3 19th
2016 Division 3 7th
2017 Division 3 2nd Promoted
2018 Division 2 7th
2019 Division 2 6th
2020 Division 2 4th
2021 Division 2 ??
A big thank you to all who contributed throughout the season including bringing the flags, tarps, tea and home baking to the fixtures.
Thanks to the club for paying our race entry fees and post race nibbles, big kudos to David Carlin for the use of the bus to get us to Welwyn as this made a huge difference in getting such a strong turnout there. To all those that volunteered especially Stuart and Helen who were outstanding all year.
XC is all about the team and representing your club, really proud of our continuous improvement and more so the increasing number of people now taking part in xc. It’s great to see the camaraderie building in the team and club throughout the xc season.
Congrats again to the ladies on their inspiring performances ye have set the standard for us.
The dream of promotion for the men must live on for another year.
Roll on Claybury on Oct 10th!