Saturday 14th of September saw the club hold its annual track & field championships. The day was a great success with some great performances and lots of PB’s The medal winners of the different age categories were: U11 Girls: Gold – Evie Fraser, Silver – Neve Lindsay, Tied Bronze – Sophie Hendry & Orla Gallagher…
The club was represented at the Scottish West District Cross Country Relay Championships at Kilmarnock on Saturday 5th of October.First up were the junior females, 2 teams were fielded with Team A: Nina Clark U13, Skye Christie U15 and Matilda Frew U17. Team B were Jessica Caskie U13, Elspeth Thorpe U15 and Eva Morrison U17.…
EKAC’s Grant Baillie won a brilliant M45 (males 45-49) gold in the 3000m steeplechase in Gothenburg, Sweden, earlier this month, clinching victory with a dramatic sprint off the final barrier. On his return to the club, the Senior squad presented Grant with a T-shirt bearing his winning time and a post-race picture of him draped…
Congratulations to Grant Baillie on becoming 2024 Scottish Athletics Masters XC Champion over a challenging course in Forres. Grant showed a muddy pair of heels to top athletes from the M40 category in taking the overall title, and in doing so also won the M45 category. Completing a family double, Kelly Baillie (centre) also had…
East Kilbride Athletic Club had six full teams competing at last weekend’s Allan Scally Relays.There were brilliant results and personal bests (PB) from the race.So many in fact it’s hard to know where to start this report!Let’s start at the beginning – what even is the Allan Scally Relays? The Allan Scally relays are a…
Well done to EKAC athletes Grant Baillie and David Ross donned Scotland vests in Dublin as they competed in the British & Irish Masters Cross Country International on 12 November. It was David’s debut run in a Scotland vest, having been picked for the M35+ squad after some consistently fine running over the last couple…
Well done to Angus Wilkinson who won this year’s SATS (Scottish Association of Track Statisticians) Under 15 Challenge – the first time someone from the club has won it. The challenge is run by Scottish Athletics statistician Arnold Black and has been running since 2014. The Challenge Rankings comprise an athlete’s top 3 performance scores…
Well done to all of our athletes who competed at the above event on 3 June. A brilliant evening of racing that resulted in loads of PBs, 3 club records and even an U15 Scottish Record! Angus Wilkinson ran a ridiculous solo 8.58.68 in the U15 3000m race to break the Scottish U15 Scottish record…