Congratulations to the Disability Sport Fife (DSF) junior athletics squad that managed to win back the national sportshall team trophy at Grangemouth on Thursday 8th March. Team Fife finished runners up in 2017 having won the championship the year previously. The popular junior inter area event is organised by Scottish Athletics and Scottish Disability Sport.
Each team of ten junior athletes must include five athletes with a learning disability, at least three athletes with a physical impairment and a maximum of two athletes with sensory impairments. All athletes compete for points in five track events and five field events. The championship is held indoors and the five track events are relays of one sort or another – 10 x 1 lap, team obstacle relay, slalom relay etc. The field events include speed bounce, seated chest push, standing long jump, target throw, hi-stepper and javelin.
As well as winning the national sportshall title, the Fife B team finished in fourth position. Brilliant results by the full Fife junior athletics squad. The full list list of participants was as follows:
Team A
Callum Sloan (Queen Anne HS)
Connor Brown (Woodmill HS)
Cameron Herring (Touch Pr)
Abbie Steggles (Dunfermline HS)
Cameron Adam (Dunfermline HS)
Matthew Blair (Woodmill HS)
Alex Evans (Balwearie HS)
Aaron Howe (Bell Baxter HS)
Rosalind Penman (Balwearie HS)
Larsson McKeown (Balwearie HS)
Team B
Finlay Davidson (Inverkeithing HS)
Owen Carmichael (Commercial Pr)
Sophie Coughlin (Bell Baxter HS)
Skye Davidson
Callum Robertson (Balwearie HS)
Shakeel Ul Haq (Lochgelly HS)
Michelle Harley (Lochgelly HS)
Ryan Dowie (Woodmill HS)
Edwin Barron (Woodmill HS)
Ryan Baird (Lochgelly HS)
Disability Sport Fife provides weekly run, jump and throws sessions in Dunfermline, Glenrothes and St Andrews and athletes prepared for the event under the guidance of DSF coaches.
Richard Brickley MBE – President Disability Sport Fife