Welcome to the ESAA Established in 1925, the English Schools' Athletic Association is dedicated to promoting the enjoyment of athletics in schools, thus enhancing the moral and physical welfare of children, by providing the right environment so that hidden talent can be discovered and visible talent can be encouraged. It achieves this aim by organising some of the premier events in the Country, and by running an award scheme for pupils of all ages. Aviva unveil sponsorship of Home Country Schools Athletics Championships Aviva, the team behind UK Athletics since 1999, unveiled their 4 year sponsorship of the Home Country Schools Championships for both track and field and cross country championships until 2012, on Saturday 28 March 2009 at the SIAB International Match in Bangor, North Wales. This commitment to schools athletics by Aviva gives further support to the ongoing contribution to our work by the NASUWT, and UK Athletics.

The 2012 Track & Field Schools' Cup Final will be held on the 30th June and the 2012 Track & Field Championships will now be held on 6th & 7th July at Gateshead.

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Notes for the moment....

Results from XC Cup Final are online. Click year 2011 then results index. Photos of the Final are available here..

• November: details of the Cross Country Cup Final are online, where, when, how to get there, courses, etc..etc.. - click year 2011, then follow the link in the menu.

• September: The results for the Combined Events and Race Walks are now available - click year 2011, then select the appropriate link in the Combined Events section of the menu.

• August: the provisional calendar of events for 2012 has been updated to reflect changes in dates of Championships and the Schools Cup Final.

• Another fabulous day's competition at the ESAA Schools' Cup Final - yet another run-away win for Southend High School For Boys Junior team finishing a massive 42 points clear of 2nd place - just what do they put into their dinners? However FitzWimarc beat the Southend Inter Boys team by 16 points.

  Yet again, Southend High School for Girls took the Junior Cup, but only by a very narrow margin of just 3 points from 2nd place Portsmouth Grammar School. The Inter Girls Cup was won by Millfield School with Aylesbury High School 2nd, but only 19 points behind.

  Click year 2011 then results index in the Track & Field Cup section of the menu for all the results.

• Results from Track & Field Championships are now available - click year 2011.

• Photos for the T&F National Championships are now available - click year 2011 then photographs - it has taken a few days to sort out the website because the weather this year has brought forward the harvest by a few weeks so Combine Harvesters and Tractors became more urgent than computers. Sorry, we considered that harvesting a year's worth of income to be just a bit slightly more important than looking at photos of athletes! This has also put back our ability to respond to emails and to update other results from other events.

• Thank you to all those athletes who registered themselves with our new County Athlete Registration scheme. It has proved to be extremely useful for your County Team Managers and it has saved a huge amount of time for them.

  Except for those athletes who didn't spell their name correctly when they registered (yes, it happened!), you can be sure that your name was spelled correctly in the Track & Field Championship programme, on teeshirts, in the results, and on TV.

  The scheme exists only for the Championship preparations, so there is no need to update your details now and the links to do that are no longer available.

• We originally said that all registrations will be deleted shortly after the Championships, but because of the fantastic response we got, we'll be emailing all registered athletes to ask if you'd prefer us to hold the information ready for next year - we'll supply a link for you to agree to us retaining your details, or for us to delete them.

  If you don't click on one or other link in our email, your details will be deleted anyway, and you'll be asked to re-register next year so that we have up to date details for you then.

• Photos from the XC Championships are now available - click year 2011, then click results and photos.

• The awards schemes are currently in the process of being re-designed - further notices will appear here shortly.

Update on Rescheduled Cross Country Cup Final - 26th March 2011

After all the snow in December, the day of the rescheduled final opened with a slightly chilly drizzle. However, this stopped by 10am and left us with a most beautiful course, almost dry, with temperatures around 8 to 10 degrees. The finish at Alnwick Castle was through a field of 500,000 daffodils - surely the prettiest finish area we've ever had! Thank you to everyone for your care in preserving this wonderful space. Results are available online - click year 2010 (not 2011!) then results index in the Cross Country Cup section of the 2010 menu. See a selection of photos at www.sendentry.com.

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