This year the ARC Club Championships expanded to include events for U8, U9 and U10 in the tennis events and also the very first Gym Club Championships.
The gym competition was open to all members, we ran a Men’s and Ladies category and we saw an encouraging uptake with 22 athletes signed up! The competition began with a qualifying stage which involved participants completing 3 workouts throughout August. Their results were put into a leaderboard which gave 3 finalists in both categories. The 3 finalists in the men’s category were Steve Carruth, Harry Edney and Tom Chambers and the ladies finalists were Victoria Kelly, Charlotte Hocking and Lottie Miles. The finals took place on Finals Sunday up on an indoor court alongside the racquet finals. The finalists battled it out over 2 tough workouts in an entertaining and competitive event with eventual winners Harry Edney in the men’s and Lottie Miles in the ladies – congratulations to them both.
The Badminton events were fiercely competed for over 2 nights in the Round Robin format. 14 players entered and both the singles and genderless doubles were played on ARC Finals Day. The play was of a high standard with new names on the trophies in both cases. (All results below)
The tennis events attracted 88 players with ages ranging from 6 to 81. Six weeks of competition culminated on September 11th with 15 titles being competed for on that day. All the events were either Round Robin or Compass draws so plenty of tennis was played by everyone.
The winner of the youngest event (8 & U Singles ) was Jessica Smale whist Veteran player Neil Darnley (one of our ARC Trustees) took 3 Senior titles. The Beer family (Martyn & Nick) took 4 titles between them! The main events in the Singles were won by Lewie Parker and Lottie Koval. (All results below)
Overall great fun was had across the 3 sports and lots of new friends made. If you didn’t participate this year, look out for the details next year. We will also be adding in Table Tennis and Squash.
All trophies will be presented at the ARC Awards Evening Saturday November 26th.
