PITREAVIE athletes played a major role to help Kingdom Athletic gain promotion to the top division of the UK Youth Development League (Upper Northern).

Kingdom – made up of athletes from Pitreavie AAC, Fife AC and Dundee Hawkhill Harriers – secured their place in Premier Division One after finishing second in the final match of the season in Leeds on Saturday.

Delighted joint team manager Paul Allan said, “After restructuring cruelly resulted in the team being relegated a couple of seasons ago, Kingdom Athletic can take its rightful place back at the top table.” Taylor Roy (right) won the under-17 100m hurdles in 14.3s and then followed that up with third place in the 200m B string in 24.5s.

Declan Brennan came third in the under-20 200m in 23.0s and was second in the B string shot putt with 8.46m.

Corey Smith (below) moved up to the under-20 2000m steeplechase for the first time this season and won the race in 8.15.1. He also recorded personal bests of 2.07.7 in the under-17 800m for fourth place, and of 72.6s in the under-20 400m hurdles for third place.

James Donald also recorded two excellent PBs – 2.05.6 in the under-17 800m B race and 9.37.6 in the 3000m – and finished off by taking second place in the 1500m in 4.28.2.

Tyler White was runner-up in the under-17 3000m B race in 10.09.6 and then ran 4.52.9 to take second place in the 1500m B race. He also ran his first ever steeplechase, clocking 7.29.1 in the 1500m B race.

Ben Potrykus, running with taped up feet to relieve some bad blisters, produced an excellent effort in the under-20 3000m to finish in 9.32.5 and then ran 4.17.1 for third place in the 1500m.

Cameron Sinclair won the under-17 400m B race in 56.4s. He was also third in the long jump with 5.44m and second in the high jump with 1.60m, only losing out on count back.

Craig Moriarty won the under-17 pole vault with 3.75m, and took third place in the under-20 javelin B string with 21.49m.

William Murray threw 39.35m for second in the javelin and the under-17 4x100m quartet, including Pitreavie’s Taylor Roy, Cameron Sinclair and William Murray, was second in 47.7s.

The under-20 4x100m team, featuring Declan Brennan and Steven Perrie-Clyde, also finished runners-up in 46.0s.

Kingdom’s under-20 4x400m quartet, also including the pair, clocked 3.39.2 to win while the under-17s quartet, featuring Roy, finished first in 3.47.1.

Lexie Cook, in her debut season in athletics, set a new PB of 44.4s to win the under-17 300m while team captain Rachel Hunter was second in the under-20 100m hurdles in 23.0s, third in the 400m hurdles in 82.9s, first in the 1500m steeplechase in 7.44.1s and first in the javelin with 26.13m.

Anna Gordon won the under-20 pole vault with 3.70m and Ruth Harvey won the B event with a PB of 2.20m. Kirsten Cronie made it a triple success, securing victory in the under-17 pole vault with 3.10m.

Sarah Connor made her debut this season for the team and in the under-20 200m she was third in 28.0s. Autumn Norris was third in the 100m B string in 14.8s and in the relays, the under-17 4x100m quartet containing Cook and Isla Sinclair finished second in 53.8s. The under-20s, featuring Connor, Norris and Cronie, were third in 55.2s.

And the under-17 4x300m quartet, including Sinclair, Erin Graham and Cook, finished third in 3.11.7.