New Forest JUNIORS are celebrating the inclusion of five of their athletes in the Hampshire team for next month's English Schools' Track & Field Championships.

Hayley Pointer (Noadswood), Cassie Gear (Hardley), Hollie McManus (Hounsdown), Mandi Foote (Hounsdown) and Jessica McMonagle (Brockenhurst) are among the 60-strong travelling party for the two-day schools' extravaganza at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium (July 11/12).

Club chairman Tim Wilding said: "Our sprints coach and coaching co-ordinator Gary Gray is very pleased to see such progress within the club, despite a chronic lack of facilities in the New Forest area.

"This success will strengthen the club's determination for improved facilities, including an all-weather training facility at one of the local schools."

HAMPSHIRE TEAM

Junior girls

100m: Rachel Harris (Richard Aldworth)

200m: Holly Croxford (Testbourne)

800m: Catriona Whitcombe (Romsey), Hayley Pointer (Noadswood)

1500m: Stacey Preston (Frogmore), Rebecca Gough (Crofton)

High jump: Anna Newton (Henry Beaufort)

Long jump: Kim Murray (Ryde High), Natalie Betts (Admiral Lord Nelson)

Shot put: Sophie Thomas (Rookwood)

Intermediate girls

100m: Fern Parker (The Clere), Hollie McManus (Hounsdown)

200m: Cassie Gear (Hardley), Vicky Burgess (Harrow Way)

300m: Mandi Foote (Hounsdown)

800m: Caroline Davis (Cowplain)

1500m: Hannah Jones (Cove), Sasha Mucci (Kings)

3000m: India Lee (Farnborough Hill), Lucy Bowers (Oaklands)

Hammer: Catherine Marvin (Ryde High)

Discus: Christina Carding (Lord Wandsworth), Amber Spencer (Testwood)

Shot put: Rachel Gray (Swanmore)

Senior girls

200m: Kessia Sherliker (Taunton's College)

400m: Sophie Douglas (Alton VI), Jess McMonagle (Brockenhurst College)

1500m: Susie Hignett (Ringwood)

Hammer: Amy Church (Sandown)

Javelin: Helen Davis (Cowes)

Shot put: Sarah Galloway (Havant College)

Junior boys

400m: Paul Morgan (Swanmore)

1500m: Josh Bliss (Testbourne)

80m hurdles: Brian Cook (Toynbee)

Long jump: Jack Austin (Calthorpe Park), James Groocock (Sandown)

Javelin: Iain Brown (Portchester), Jacob Lewis (Toynbee)

Shot: Louis Hamson (Portchester)

Intermediate boys

200m: Marimba Odundo-Mendez (Lord Wandsworth), Duncan Marchbanks (Priestlands)

400m: Louis Sellars (Winton), Jonathan Hiorns (Robert Mays), Leo Beckford (Henry Beaufort)

800m: Ben Harding (Brookfield)

1500m: Laurence Cox (Lord Wandsworth)

Hammer: Daniel Barton-Smith (Carisbrooke)

Javelin: Adam Akehurst (Horndean)

Pole vault: Ryan Cornell (Henry Beaufort)

Senior boys

200m: Chris Cooper (Portsmouth College)

400m: Michael Williams (St Vincent's)

800m: James Hogan (Winchester College), Alex Budd (Havant College)

1500m: Jonathan Blacklege (Ryde with Upper Chine), James Ellis (Havant College)

3000m: Tommy Davies (Peter Symonds)

110m hurdles: Callum McKay (Farnborough VI)

2000m steeplechase: Gavin Smith (Barton Peveril)

Hammer: Laurence Harwood (Sandown)

Shot put: Andrew Bennett (Peter Symonds)