Blackburn and Darwen School Games

After four weeks, and six rounds of qualifying nights, with a massive 28 primary schools and over 500 pupils competing, Lower Darwen primary school are the 2014 Sportshall Athletics Champions.

 

All the schools used their Sports Premium Funding to support and enter the event which was again one of the most attended and popular events of the school sporting year.

 

A total of eight schools reached the grand final, which this year was held at Darwen Vale High School, after the six qualifying nights in secondary schools across the borough. The competition started in January and schools competed against each other to make the final. Lower Darwen will now go on to represent Blackburn with Darwen at the county finals in Fleetwood in February.

 

The Milking Lane based school finished with the highest points total on the night, edging out The Redeemer and Avondale who claimed silver and bronze respectively.

 

The mixed team competition is a combination of running, jumping and throwing events. The event requires a minimum of nine boys and nine girls to compete across the five running events. They also compete in the jumping events which include triple jump, long jump, vertical jump and speed bounce while the throwing events consist of chest push and javelin.

 

The other schools which attended the final were, St Peters’, Shadsworth, St Edward’s, Longshaw and Meadowhead. All the schools should be proud of themselves as they are all winners to get this far and were part of one of our closest ever finals, well done.

 

BWDSGO would like to thank all the schools that took part in all of the qualifiers and finals night to make it so successful and such an exciting and popular event. A special congratulations to Lower Darwen and we are sure that they will go on to do Blackburn with Darwen proud, GOOD LUCK.