DAVISON DUO IN MEDALS

Denyer's victory in the Junior 200m with a personal-best 26.5sec notched the seventh-fastest time by any female in Sussex in 2003 and 2004. She was the only girls track winner in the West Sussex South team

But Duke's 1.55 metres in the junior high jump, although surpassed by her Worthing Harriers club rival Kayley Alcorn's 1.58m, still was within the English Schools Championships qualifying standard.

So Duke, with Alcorn, will join the Sussex team for the National Championships at Gateshead on July 9 & 10, along with Ferring-based Sussex Schools Under-19 high jump champion Emma Perkins, who represented Christ's Hospital at Crawley.

Laura Duke is the South of England Under-15 silver medallist (Alcorn is the champion and UK No 2) and now the UK junior No 9, but is also the Sussex AAAs record-breaking Under-15 pole vault champion, in which she is the UK No 3 at her age group.

Another Worthing-based athlete will be at Gateshead: Chichester College's 100m sprinter Wade Bennett-Jackson.

Worthing Sixth Form College's Matthew Dumigan picked up the Sussex Schools bronze medal in the 2,000 metres steeplechase at Crawley.

Worthing Harriers Athletics Club can take plenty of credit for a number of successes in the West Sussex South team. Their training, including under lights this winter, has produced the quality that has resulted in six of their members, all field athletes, making the Sussex Schools team for Gateshead.

Along with Perkins, Alcorn and Duke, as Harriers products, are another jumper Mel Davies, in the high, and a thrower Lucy Tattersall in the hammer '” both under-17s '” and Tattersall's Angmering School colleague Dan Dunscombe in the Under-15 high jump.

Dunscombe, Tattersall and Angmering girl Vicky Perkins (younger sister of Emma) in the triple jump, all set new Sussex Schools Championship-bests. Dunscombe is now the UK No 2 at Under-15.