9:46am Tuesday 7th July 2009
SOUTHEND High School for Boys proved themselves record-breakers when competing in the annual English Schools Track and Field Cup national final.
For at the Copthall Stadium in Barnet they retained the intermediate boys title with a record 574 points score.
They triumphed by two points over Judd School, from Tonbridge, Kent, having held the previous record when they scored 467 points in winning the title in Hull in 2008.
“This was the Prittlewell Chase School’s 19th national title and the team performed with excellent discipline and attitude as a band of brothers to win the Intermediate cup for the sixth time in eight years,” said a spokesman for the Prittlewell Chase school.
Southend finished third in the junior boys with 506 points, maintaining the school’s proud record of never being out of the top three in either age group since 2002.
It was also a special day for Southend’s intermediate team member Josh Rees, the reigning Echo junior sports personality of the year.
He has won four successive national track and field cup titles now and, as that is as many a student can compete in, it is a record that can only be equalled but never bettered.
Four members of the Southend High girls’ team that retained the intermediate title at Barnet also share that record of four straight successes.
As reported in yesterday’s Echo, the girls completed the junior and intermediate double with Rayleigh’s FitzWimarc second in the junior boys and Westcliff High fourth in the intermediate boys.
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