OLIVIA MONTEZ-BROWN is celebrating a record-breaking international success story.
The West Cheshire AC multi-eventer was a member of the England Schools team that won the World Schools Athletics Cup in the Czech Republic and broke the record points total by 17 points.
Olivia, 17, who lives in Ellesmere Port and is a West Cheshire College student, finished third in the long jump with 5.48m and was fifth overall in the 100m hurdles.
She was joined in the six-strong England Schools girls team by Shirin Irving (Croydon Harriers), Bobby Clay (Invicta East Kent), Sabrina Bakare (Shaftesbury Barnet), Daryll Neita (Cambridge Harriers) and Robyn Petitt (Crawley) who finished ahead of runners-up Slovakia, and third placed China.
Olivia will represent Cheshire at this weekend’s English Schools Track and Field Championships.
She is one of seven West Cheshire AC members who have been selected to compete at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium, the others being Sophie Percival, Kelly Baker, Alice McMahon, Emily Ball, Jenni Potter and Matthew Pagan.
Matthew Pagan, Zac Barnsley and Alice McMahon both secured double sprint victories for West Cheshire AC at Blackburn in the third round of the Youth Development Track and Field Upper League.
Pagan posted 11.7 and 23.7 seconds in the under 20 men’s 100m and 200m respectively, while Barnsley won the U17 men’s 100m (11.7) and 200m (23.8), and McMahon won the U20 women’s 100m (12.8) and 200m (25.9).
Match result: 1 Blackburn 540 points; 2 East Cheshire 419; 3 West Cheshire 364; 4 Team North Cumbria 283; 5 Border Harriers 200.
Fixtures this week include the Deestriders Off Road Grand Prix Race at Tate Sports and Social Club, Shotton, tomorrow (7.30pm start), and the third round of the Northern Track and Field League for West Cheshire AC at Litherland, on Sunday (11am start).
Stanney Oaks track will host a Year 7 inter-counties schools track and field match between Cheshire and Merseyside on Monday (5pm start).
