Swindon Harriers have had 14 athletes selected to compete at the English Schools’ Cross Country Championships in March.

Hosted in Pontefract, Yorkshire, the championship is one of the biggest races of the winter as the best young runners from around the country compete for their counties.

Ten of the Wiltshire squad for the event on March 16 have come from Swindon Harriers and four are part of the Gloucestershire team.

The club’s talented group of junior boys are particularly well-represented with Wiltshire selecting county bronze medallist Finley Bryne plus James Mayneord, Jesse Bryant and Alex Leak.

In addition to those fab four Oliver Hughes has been named as one of the two official reserves while Gloucestershire include Harry Burdekin in their team.

Then in the junior girls, Elsie Scrase and Ellie Charlesworth have both been selected as a reward for their good form this season.

Wiltshire champion Anubis Molina-Zekri makes the inter boys’ squad despite a disappointing run at the South West Cross Country Championship, although he later revealed he was struggling with an injury, but he should be recovered in time for the nationals.

Carley Lainton is named in the inter-girls’ squad but Eloise Foster, who won the South West Inter-Counties Championships at the start of the year, is only named as a reserve.

The reason behind that is probably due to the fact that she missed the South West Schools though that was due to injury.

Fletcher Hart also missed the South West Schools’ due to injury but the Gloucestershire selectors have kept faith in him and named Hart in the senior boys’ squad.

Ella Spencer, who placed fifth at the South West Schools, is in the Gloucestershire inter girls’ squad and Lucy Bull, who helped the county win team silver at the regionals, makes the junior girls’ squad.