On Saturday 26th September, WGEL Young Athletes hosted their second track and field competition of the summer, catering for WGEL athletes, school years 3-9 (U11s-U15s).

The event, thanks to the hard work of WGEL club officials, took place under UKA Licensed competition rules. This provided athletes with official recorded times and distances, and for many helped established their athletics CV’s on the UKA “Power of Ten” results database.

Power of 10 Results

Athletes selected up to three events from the licensed schedule including hurdles, 75m, 150m, and 600m, Long Jump, Shot Put and Javelin (howlers). Over 100 WGEL athletes entered. The organising team seeded races on school year groups. This ensured athletes had good levels of competition, whilst having fun with age group teammates.

Autumn Le Chevalier-Jones impresses in the U11 600m

Sadly, we have received news of the deaths of 3 former members. 

Gerry Carr - died November 3rd, 2019

With UKA having announced that athletics has now been suspended until at least June 30th, the Graded Meetings due to take place at Woodford on June 2nd and June 30th  are unfortunately now cancelled.

The Annual General Meeting of Woodford Green AC with Essex Ladies was originally planned to be held on Friday April 24th. With the current circumstances around COVID 19 the AGM will now take place at a future date to be advised.

Update:  The annual report has now been emailed to all with email addresses on the club database.  Note that already a few of these are bouncing back as invalid, so if you haven't received the report and want one, plese email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

David Hollingworth

Hon General Secretary