Athletics

Athletics is a major sport for girls throughout the Summer term. The various athletics disciplines are taught during PE lessons and girls can also choose to participate and develop their skills further at Athletics club after school.

Athletes compete in the Macclesfield and District Athletics championships and the ESAA Schools’ Cup Athletics competition. A number of girls regularly qualify to represent Macclesfield at the Cheshire Schools Athletics championships and both Junior girls and Inter girls teams annually qualify for the Regional Finals of the ESAA School’s Cup competition. 

Over the years there have been several successful athletes who have gained National qualifying standards at the Cheshire Schools Athletics Championships and have competed for Cheshire at the ESAA National Schools’ Track and Field Championships.

HONOURS
2019 - Junior and Inter Girls teams competed for Cheshire at NW Regional A Finals ESAA Schools' Cup competition in Blackpool.
2019 - Claudia Rodriguez-Martinez (100m), and Maddie Johnson (Javelin) represented Cheshire in the Junior Girls at Mason Trophy Inter Counties competition at Alexander Stadium Birmingham.
2018- Inter Girls teams competed for Cheshire at NW Regional A Finals ESAA Schools Cup competition in Wigan.
2018 - Sophie Fletcher represented Cheshire in Minor Girls High Jump at Schools Inter Counties at Ellesmere Port.
2018 - Claudia Rodriguez-Martinez Junior Gilrs 100m at ESAA National Track and Field Championships at Alexander Stadium Birmingham.
2014 & 2015 – Sophie Quinn - Inter Girls and Senior Girls Long Jump ESAA National Track and Field Championships at Alexander Stadium Birmingham and Gateshead.
2014 - Sophie Quinn – U17 National Indoor Triple Jump Bronze.
2013 - Katie Hughes Junior Girls 800m - ESAA National Track and Field Championships Alexander Stadium Birmingham.

Athletics at King’s is taught across Key Stage 3 in summer PE lessons as boys get to enjoy and experience a selection of sprints, middle and long distance runs; hurdles, high jump and long jump; discus, shot and javelin as part of their curriculum. At Key Stage 3 & 4 the boys are able to pursue their athletics in Games afternoons complemented by lunchtime and after school practices.

Boys from Years 7 to 11 are then afforded the opportunity to represent the school at a large selection of fixtures against some of the best schools in the north west. We also host the annual King’s Relays meeting, and we use the state of the art athletics track at Macclesfield Leisure Centre for both this meeting and the Macclesfield and District Championships. 

In the ESAA English Schools’ track and field cup we enter teams at Juniors and Inters level and reached the Grade A final in last year’s event at Robin Park, Wigan.  Several boys have represented Cheshire in the County Championships and on occasion some of our boys have gone on to compete at the National Championships at Gateshead. 

Athletics enjoys a high profile at the school as both a curricular and extra-curricular activity and there are a large number of PE and academic Staff involved in the safe and enjoyable delivery of the sport at both participation and elite level.