Brendan Deary Died 1st May 2007 Brendan Deary was one of my earliest friends in Sefton Harriers. We both joined the club about the same time. Brendan had moved from Waterloo Harriers he was still a junior and was a member of the Sefton team that won the Northern Cross Country team title in 1956/57 […]
News June 2007
Northern Senior League Northern Senior League Match 2 Stockport Team result: 1. Bolton(412), 2. Stockport(354), 3. St Helens Sutton(302), 4. LPS(288), 5. Manx(285), 6. West Cheshire(275) Again a very much weakened team but a big congratulations to the handful of girls who repeatedly doubled up to score useful points. Particularly satisfying was the partnership of Laura Abel, […]
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News May 2007
Young Athletes Report The Young Athletes were at Bebington for their match against tough opponents Sale, Macclesfield and Wirral but again there were many outstanding individual performances. For the first time the girls outscored the boys. The most eye catching were U17s Emma Bowen(1st 300m 44.2 and 2nd 800m 2.23.5) and a very mature 2nd […]
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News April 2007
Northern Mersey Junior The first track and field league encounter of the season was the Northern Mersey Junior match played out at Wigan. The Liverpool Pembroke Sefton performance was best described as solid rather that outstanding but with several individual efforts that whetted the appetite for the coming season. Alex Stokes took the A 100m […]
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News March 2007
Phil Taylor strikes gold in Europeans Local athletics fans were glued to their television sets last weekend watching the European Indoor Championships at the Birmingham Indoor Arena. The Liverpool Pembroke Sefton star had received his first full international call up to represent Great Britain in the 4 x 400m relay team. As often happens in […]
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New February 2007
Phil Taylor foiled in title bid Liverpool Pembroke Sefton’s talented 400m star was at Sheffield for the televised Norwich Union European Trials and UK Indoor Championships. After coasting through his heat in 48.73 and posting a sharp 48.16 in the semi-final he looked odds on to gain a championship medal, even the gold. Fate played […]
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New January 2007
Doran and Bowen third in the North The recently published Northern Under 17 top 10 athletic rankings for 2006 reveal yet another tranche of Liverpool Pembroke Sefton athletes. It was expected that 400m star Harry Doran would figure highly after his national 14th placing and indeed his 400m sub-50 posting of 49.96 puts him third in the […]
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News December 2006
There are few athletic clubs that can boast a runner in the world’s top 50 but the 2006 rankings place Liverpool Pembroke Sefton star, Michael Rimmer, 31st with a 800m time of 1:45.23 recorded in Helsinki in July. He was two seconds of the top South African but at only 20 years of age can look […]
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Merrick Bousfield
Merrick Bousfield joined Sefton Harriers in 1986 he had previously been with Waterloo AC, a multi event in his early days with Waterloo he continued to compete in multi events for his first few years with Sefton before concentrating on the throws and specialising in the hammer . He was an active member of the […]
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News November 2006
Cross Country Relays Only two weeks after taking the National Road Relay title the Liverpool Pembroke Sefton Under 15 trio were at Mansfield for the equivalent National Cross Country Relays. David Forrester clearly enjoys the first leg spot and refuses to be intimidated by the class athletes most clubs run on this stage. His confidence […]
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