Inter-Counties Cross-Country Championships 8 March 2025

Good luck to the North Eastern Counties squads heading for Wollaton Park, Nottingham on Saturday for the Inter-Counties Cross-Country Championships.

The NE is sending full squads for the 10-race programme and there is hope of returning home with a number of medals despite the withdrawal of a number of the original squads especially in the senior men. Despite that, team managers Lynn Cooper and Stewy Bell are backing those named in the teams below to do well.

UNDER-13 GIRLS

Poppie Phillipson and Izzy Hall (both Birtley), Ayala Blight (Elswick), Sasha Patterson (Darlington), Evie Kleiser (Durham City), Heidi Wilkinson (Morpeth), Iris Brown (New Marske) and Alice Scrambler (North Shields Poly)

UNDER-15 GIRLS

Gabrielle Pinder (New Marske), Holly Robison and Kathryn Pye (both Houghton), Olivia Murphy (Birtley), Matilda Owen and Charlotte Owen (both Darlington) and Emma Blackburn and Emily Collingwood (both Gateshead)

UNDER-17 WOMEN

Zara Jones (Darlington), Hattie Stead (Blackhill), Isabella Oldfield (Alnwick), Grace Carter (Durham City), Anna Johnson and Darcy Tullis (both NSP), Millie Moat (Gosforth) and Lucy Buckle (Chester-le-Street)

UNDER-20 WOMEN

Charlotte Dillon (Houghton), Imogen Bungay (Elswick), Alice Bell and Iona Johnstone (both Gateshead), Ellie Fellows (Blaydon), Emma Ashman (Gosforth), Tabitha Robson (Morpeth) and Amelie Sillence (NSP)

SENIOR WOMEN

Holly Lawrence (Morpeth), Jennifer Berry (Wallsend), Lydia Turner (Birtley), Charlotte Penfold (NSP), Lucy Storey (Durham City), Anna Pigford (Houghton), Alex Sneddon (Jarrow and Hebburn), Grace Carroll (Sunderland) and Amy Fuller (Kenilworth)

UNDER-13 BOYS

Noah Penfold, Peter Davies and Edward Watson (all NSP), Ollie Curran (Darlington), Mason Gaylor (Morpeth), Hayden Husband (Allerton), Marty Richardson (Darlington) and Henry Engelhart (Durham City)

UNDER-15 BOYS

James Sturman (NSP), Kirsten-Lyle Sridhar (Darlington), Kasper Pearson), Wallsend), Alexander Smith (Heaton), Arthur Darling (Tynedale), Noah Williamson (NE Project), Joe Shields (Durham City) and George Bryce (Blyth)

UNDER-17 MEN

Zander Gribbon (New Marske), Liam McDonogh (Alnwick), Jacob Brown (Middlesbrough), Dawit Asmelash (TS), Daniel Watson (NSP), Alfie Cook (Gateshead), Arthur Di Lullo (Tynedale) and Oliver Tomlinson (Morpeth)

UNDER-20 MEN

Joe Dixon, Bertie Marr, Elliott Kelso and Will De Vere Owen (all Morpeth), Rory Hart (Darlington), Joe Willis (Sunderland), Luke Boothby (Middlesbrough) and Callum Etheridge (Elswick)

SENIOR MEN

Calum Johnson and Matt Linsley (both Gateshead), Philip Winkler and Ellis Hetherington (both Morpeth), Cameron Allen (Houghton), Dan Garbutt (Durham City), Michael Wilson and Stephen Jackson (both Sunderland)and Max Creasey (Middlesbrough)

**Twenty-five of the region’s clubs have at least one representative so well done to all their coaches for giving their athletes the chance of taking part in what, arguably, is the strongest cross-country event on the circuit with teams from all the English counties, together with Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland area teams taking their chance

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