This was of course the weekend of the Eurovision contest and the very recent newsflashes received with my smart phone gave a good flavor from the various Harriers sections about what was happening over the weekend. Thanks to our genius web master Eddie Toner I did not even need to connect to…
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Grangemouth Stadium was the venue of the first meeting of the new structured Youth Development League held on 5th May. The new league is now split between the lower (U13/U15) and upper age group (U17) and Kilmarnock Harriers compete as part of the composite team Ayrshire Harriers. Kilmarnock Harriers was…
16 young Harriers (U13/U15) had a fantastic training session on Friday evening at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena. For the first time this year the weather has been very welcoming, which possibly helped to make this training session a very good preparation for the upcoming West District next weekend. I personally…
Our Wednesday pole vault group has been making good progress and preparation are going well for the second Youth Development League match on 2nd June, which will be held at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena. Our current pole vault group consists of 3 Kilmarnock athletes and 3 Ayr Seaforth athletes: Hannah Bartl, Leigh…
Kilmarnock Harriers pole vault group travelled to Grangemouth stadium on Wednesday 1st May to compete for the first time in this event. The group consisting of Evie Bartl, Cara Baillie (both U15) and coach Harald felt fairly confident after the last training sessions, where all athletes registered good clearances over…
In the 3000m for seniors, Iain Connell ran a strong of 9:32.4 placing first with Murray McDonald in 2nd clocking a time of 11:22.4 and also Kenny Wales in 3rd finishing with 12:32.6. For the senior women, Kara Tait ran well with her time of 10:35.5 with Lindsay McMahon shortly…
On a cold, blustery night, many Kilmarnock Harrier athletes travelled up to Linwood, Glasgow to compete at the Dunren Open Graded meeting. Events ranged from 100m through to javelin. In the 100m, 15 athletes competed all over 8 heats: In the first heat, Roy Shankland (U20), Scott Young(U20) and Kuda…
Results are now available at: click here A big thumbs up to everyone, who contributed to the huge success at the Dumfries Open Meeting this Sunday (21st April). I personally have been attending meetings at Dumfries with my own girls for the last 5 years but this was something special. In…
Kilmarnock Harriers are proud to offer a new exciting field event to our young athletes (age group U15 and above): Pole Vault. What initially only began as an experiment will now become a permanent feature in the curriculum among the other field events currently on offer to our young athletes. The…
Ravenscraig was the venue for the last meeting of the indoor season, in which 3 Harriers (U15) succesfully competed in: Cameron Wilson, Cara Baillie and Evie Bartl. Cameron Wilson, U15, had an excellent competition achieving PBs in all three events he competed in. Cameron started the competition with a fine…
