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Jessica going to Youth Olympic Games

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:13:44 +0000

15 year old Jessica Fox from Leonay has been selected to represent Australia in the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics in August. She will be competing in the K1 women’s canoe sprint and the canoe slalom events.According to the Australian Canoeing website, at the Australian Youth Olympic team selection trials at Penrith Jessica’s result was fantastic. ‘The new format of competition adopted for the Singapore Youth Olympic Games presented a challenge in mastering the technical and physical demands of a head to head sprint on a figure of 8 course and a slalom obstacle course around buoys using new equipment and rules.
Jessica has only recently adapted her skills to a sprint boat after ongoing success in the slalom discipline, including a gold medal at the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Games, and becoming the 2010 junior ladies K1 & C1 Oceania champion as well as taking out the senior C1 Oceania championship.’

BMX Champions

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 04:53:54 +0000

Last week 5 riders from the Emu Heights-Leonay area contested in the BMX Australian Titles in Shepparton Victoria.
Ben Clarke, siblings Nicole and Ian Docherty, and father and son Jason and Reece Crutch all performed extremely well.

Nicole Docherty finished 4th in the 15-16 girls cruiser and 8th in the 16 girls after being hit by another rider and falling in the finals. Nicole received an award for competing in her 10th consecutive Australian Titles. These were her best results ever.
Ian Docherty, aged 18, competed in the Elite Men’s class which is the open class for over 18’s. He achieved an outstanding result making the semi finals and ranking 13th. Ian also received an award for competing in his 10th consecutive Australain Titles. Ben Clarke contested the Junior Elite class for 17-18 year olds He finished 3rd in the cruiser class.
For Reece Crutch and his dad Jason it was their first Australian titles. Both rode strongly and showed great promise for the future. Reece finished 26th in the 8 boys and Jason 26th in the 30-35 men’s cruiser.

Gold for Jessica

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:45:42 +0000

Jessica Fox from Leonay is only 16 years old and a student in year 11 at Blaxland High School but she has won the Women’s C1 Canoe Slalom event at the 2010 Oceania Open on Sunday 21st February. On the www.canoe.org.au website Jessica said “I’m delighted with the result. I nearly lost it right at [...]

Local BMX Winners

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:03:01 +0000

Penrith Panthers BMX Club had 5 riders make the trip to Victoria to contest the BMX Victorian State Titles.
Local Leonay girl, Nicole Docherty, triumphed, winning the Victorian titles for the 15 year old girls and backed it up with a second in the A pro open ladies. She also finished 3rd in the National champbix round. This has capped of a fantastic year for Nicole who has competed in the Australian Titles and World titles earlier in the year.
Nicole (pictured left) has also just recently won the NSW title for 15 year old girls and was 2nd in the A pro open ladies in NSW.
18 year old Ian Docherty has made a great start to the new year making the semi finals in Queensland in two world ranking qualifying events, riding against against two Australian Olympic riders.
For club details visit the website :panthers.bmx.com.au

BMX State Champion

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:16:59 +0000

Leonay student, Nicole Docherty won State Champion the 15 year old girls event in the NSW State Titles in muddy and wet conditions. She came second in the the A open ladies class.
Ian Docherty also competed and was racing strongly till he had a fall. He still qualified for the final of the AA open mens cruiser finishing 7th and the semi final of the AA men open. Ben Clarke from Emu Heights also competed in the AA open mens.
The Crutch family from Emu Heights had dad Jason finishing 12th in the men’s cruiser and 7 year old Reece receiving a trophy.

Good Sports At Emu

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:31:36 +0000

Primary children at Emu Plains Public School were running, jumping and throwing to their heart’s content at their annual athletics carnival held on Tuesday 18th August.
On a beautiful, warm, sunny winter’s day the members of Mitchell, Cox, Dawes and Lennox houses lined up to determine which house would be the champions of 2009. Points were awarded for places, but all the children contributed through participation points in the various track and field activities. The level of support and encouragement was fantastic, not just from the children, but the parents and family members as well.
Congratulations to Mitchell House which won the day in a close points countback, but it was clear that everyone had a wonderful time and thoroughly enjoyed the experience of representing their team and friends.
The participants, supporters and organizers are to be congratulated on another fine Emu Plains sporting event.