On Saturday the 6th Feb saw the SW Schools xc champs held at Pittville Park Cheltneham, over night rain and more rain on the day made the course rather muddy lol. After some last minute changes to the course for health and safety the racing got under way on a demanding slightly undulating course.

     First up was the minor boys on a already cut up course from everyone walking th course, with 2 wells/Yeovil boys, this being there 1st sw champs and both had solid runs to finish  Toby Watson 30th and Piran Littles 60th, which help Somerset to 3rd place in the team race.

   Minor Girls race saw 66 girls line up, Wells and Yeovil had Kai Snell in the team and ran a great race to finish 13th only 20sec behind 3rd which shows how close this race was, again this helped Somerset to 3rd place

 Junior Girls saw 4 athletes from Wells/Yeovil line up for Somerset again another good turn out in this field saw Daisey Davies 17th, Abbie White 26th and Lizzy Ingram 61st, with Somerset finishing 5th team. Also deserving a mention is Amelia Wills who was 1st home who has been training with Wells on a Tuesday night.

 Junior Boys with saw again nearly a full field with 66 turning out, running a very mature and strong race Luke Macphearson managed a top 10 spot in 9th place, with Innes Davidson 61st helping Somerset to 5th team

 Inter boys again 66 boys lined up and saw 4 Wells/Yeovil runners in the Somerset team, parts of the course now looked more like a ploughed up field but again some great running with Ben Llyod 25th Dylan Dukes 44th Bradley Seager 49th Alex Williams 54th, Somerset finished 5th team.

   Inter Girls again had 66 in the field and again Wells/Yeovil turning out a major portion of the Somerset team, and 2 of them battling it out to finish within 6 seconds of each other and top 10 positions Sophie Hamilton 6th and Elise Thorner 7th, Caitlin Carnegie 31st and Katie Llyod 50th helping Somerset to a top 2 position 

 Senior Girls with 57 turning out and Wells/yeovil again supplying 4 in the team saw India Cooper 25th Lucy Baldwin 33rd Megan Rusca 36th Amy Darcy 43rd all the girls ran well in these conditions that had now become a muddy slog and helped Somerset to 5th county

 Senior Boys saw 5 Wells/Yeovil athletes making up 1/2 the team this race saw Wells/Yeovil/Somerset  highest team and individual placing, 1st in for Somerset was Luke Prior 2nd who took the race to GB international William Battershill who just came out the stronger, next in was Sam Somerville 5th Felix Rusby 7th Oliver Dickinson 8th James Bribge 12th that's a great effort by all, Somerset had 6 athletes in the top 12, also from Tuesday night traning group from Downside school saw Johhny Birkkett and Theo Matthew Theo help Somerset to a 42 point win 

Well done to all who ran and good luck to all who go on to national Schools