Club Awards

Every year, usually announced at the Stowmarket Striders Christmas Party, the club announces the male and female Club Champions, the Striders of the Year and the Coaches Awards.

Club Champions

The club championships are a series of 6 races held over the summer months using a handicapped system over a set 5km route from Mid-Suffolk Leisure Centre. Full details of this series can be found on the Club Championships page. Male and Female winners each receive a shield engraved with their name.

The 2011 winners are:

	Ladies	Mens
1st	Hollie Morris	Grayhame Fish
2nd	Alex Smith	Andy Green
3rd	Harriet Challis	Nick Hammond

Junior Female	Emily Moyes	Junior Male	Scott Sherman
Senior Female	Rebecca Jordan	Senior Male	Tim Larke
FV35	Liz Beighton	MV40	Mark Miller
FV40	Mary Narey	MV45	Steve Hughes
FV45	Diane Hughes	MV50	Steve Gray
FV50	Denise Robinson	MV55	Peter Mills
FV60	Anne Fish	MV60	Ron Ames

Previous Club Champions

Strider of the Year

2011 Ladies winner is Mary Narey
2011 Men's winner is Chris Seymour

This award is voted by the members of the club. Voting for your male and female Strider of the Year can be based on a number of factors:-

Who you think has ran their hearts out during the past year.
Who you think has worked hardest on behalf of the club.
Who you think has represented the club best.
Who you think has entertained us best.
Who you think has been more than just a Strider member.
Who you think deserves the grand title of Strider of the Year.

Voting starts a few weeks before the Christmas Party, usually mid-November, and ends on the night of the Christmas Party. The Chairman will then count the votes and announce the winner on the night.

The Male Strider receives for the following year the 'George Leggett Cup', a pewter cup in memory of a club member, George Leggett, who died before his time in 2004.

The Ladies Strider of the year receives a Irish Crystal glass bowl

Previous Striders of the Year


	Coaches Awards 2011 awards went to Tim Larke, Beccy Jordan and Susan Bloomfield This prestigous award comes from the coaches to those who they believe have run their hearts out and had the biggest success at achieving their own goals.

London Marathon Places

Each UK Athletics-affiliated club is guaranteed a number of places dependant upon the number of club members amongst other criteria. The Stowmarket Striders usually have 3 or 4 guaranteed places to the London Marathon. Having met certain club criteria, each club member can apply for one of these places. Since there are normally more applicants than places, names are drawn from a hat at the Christmas Party. Applicants lucky enough to win places for the 2010 Virgin London Marathon are:

Angela Burdett, Denise Wright, Neil Martin and Jon Milburn

We wish those runners lots of luck not only for race day but for all the training they will endure for the next few months before the big day.

Club Mark

Stowmarket Striders are proud to hold Clubmark status (renewed again in Januar 2012).

England Athletics Accredited Club status forms part of the national cross sports quality accreditation scheme, 'Clubmark'. It is built around a set of core criteria which ensure that accredited clubs operate to a set of consistent, accepted and adopted minimum operating standards. These include ensuring that there is a suitable coaching programme, that effective safeguarding policies and practices are in place and that the club has an up to date development plan.

Heidi Bingham, our club Welfare Officer, ensures we continually adhere to the required standards which in turn ensure the clubs duites to safe guard their Junior members.