Sophie's top marks

Updated November 7 2012 - 12:50am, first published November 10 2008 - 11:21am
GOING PLACES: Sophie Taylor continues to impress on the track.
GOING PLACES: Sophie Taylor continues to impress on the track.

CATHOLIC College Bendigo student Sophie Taylor went on a record-breaking run at the weekend’s Victorian All Schools track and field championships at Melbourne’s Olympic Park.Athletics Bendigo club members were in hot form. Taylor won four gold medals in the under-14s action.The CCB student set one new Victorian record and two country records.Taylor beat the 100m and triple jump records held by Olympic representative Lauren Hewitt.The Bendigo teenager won the 100m in 12.33 seconds and leapt 11.50 metres at triple jump.In the 200 metres, Taylor broke her own state record captured earlier in the season with a time of 25.23.Her times from the 100m and 200m mean the 13-year-old holds the Bendigo open record.Another gold medal was won in the long jump as the Eaglehawk YMCA Athletics Club member achieved a best of 5.35m.In the under-18 events, Josh Pickthall’s outstanding form rolled on.Pickthall was runner-up in the long jump, and won bronze in the 200m and 400m.His younger brother, Luke ran a terrific time of 11.91 to be a silver medallist in the under-15s 100m.Tanya Higgs was a dual gold medallist in the under-15 events.The Eaglehawk Athletics Club member won gold in the 90m and 200m hurdles.The Arnold-based teenager won silver in the discus, was fourth at javelin, and sixth in the 100m at what was a busy meet for the talented all-rounder.Swan Hill’s Denise Snyder cleared 1.66 metres to win the under-17 high jump.The Eaglehawk Athletics Club member was runner-up at the long jump.In the throws events, the Bendigo YMCA Harriers’ young star Roxanne Kellow won gold in the hammer throw with a best mark of 32.45m.Kellow was a silver medallist at the shot put, and fourth in the discus.Bendigo’s strong walking contingent also performed well.Eaglehawk’s Ebony Whiley was second in the under-14s and Jeremiah Jones was third in the same age group, but has another two years to compete in this age bracket.It was family rivalry in the under-14 hurdles as Brigette Dillon won gold in a time of 12.34 and just missed breaking the record held by sister, Danielle, by five-hundredths of a second.Other outstanding performers were Samantha McDougall, second at pole vault; Lu Wei Spinks, third at 100m; and Kaine Leech, third in the 800m as he broke the two-minute mark for the first time in 1.58.Keely Trew, fourth at javelin; Alice Schenker, fourth at discus; and Jessie Pethybridge, third at 200m hurdles, 4th 90m hurdles, 6th high jump.Louis Schenker won silver at the hammer throw; Jack Palfreyman was third at javelin and fifth at high jump; and Phillip Clayton was runner-up in the discus.

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