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The club was well represented at the Scottish Schools Cross Country championship at Irvine on Saturday.
Congratulations must go to all who competed as they all ran really well against huge fields of top class athletes over a very hilly course where the wind helped make conditions even tougher.
The top honours go to Craig Wellcoat of Braidhurst High School who won the 15-17 age group race running from the front and pulling away to win comfortably.
In the under 14 girls race Carluke High School girls Chloe Mutumha was 97 and Lucy Clyde 108th in a field of almost 200. These were two good performances from very inexperienced runners.
A similar number of opponents faced Evan Jones representing Carluke high School in the under 14 boys race, but Evan showed great courage in finishing 47th.
Sherelle Graham from Taylor High and Nadene Traynor competed in the 14-15 age group and they demonstrated their continued improvement to finish 25th and 45th respectively with over a hundred runners behind them.
In the 14-15 boys race there was another exceptional run, this time by Calum Lindsay who doggedly ran through the field in the latter half of the race to finish 15th, narrowly missing selection for the Scottish schools' team. Calum was followed by his Carluke High schoolmate Mark Phurley in 88th position.
Nicola Lindsay, Calum's sister has been troubled by illness but showed that she is on the road back when after starting conservatively in the early stages stormed through the field to clinch 6th place in the over 17 girls' race.
Jonathan Velu from Hamilton College overcame a poor start to finish in 24th place in the over 17 boys race.
Law athletes Laura Livesey and Gary Grieve represented their universities at the British University Championships in Birmingham and although performing well, returned empty handed.
Gary, Scottish Universities' 800metre champion, made it through to the semi-final of the 800metres and ran close to his personal best in 4th, but narrowly missed a place in the final.
Laura made it to the semi final of the 60metres and finished in 8th place and was 4th in her heat of the 200metres.
Both are first year students and they held their own in a competition where the quality of opponents is not far from the best that Britain can offer. They continue to improve and will have a chance to try again next year
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