

The Club has a large and active Track & Field Section. Regular training sessions for age groups from Juniors to Veterans are overseen by qualified coaches at the Castle School track.
We are currently in Division 1 of the Southwest Athletics League, which organises a series of matches between all eight clubs in the Division from April to September each year. Many of our athletes also compete at numerous county, regional and national championships and Open Meets throughout the season.
See below for recent news, or use the links on the right to find out more about T&F fixtures, entry details and results of past events.
Coming up soon:
Full list of events see T&F Fixtures page
31 Aug (Tue) BMC 1500s & 800s -
2 Sep (Thu) Mendip Open
5 Sep (Sun) SWAL MATCH 4 -
8 Sep (Wed). Yeovilton 5km web-link
10 Sep. (Fri) Presentation evening / Social – Queen’s College Conference Centre –
19Sep (Sun) Tricky Warren 10k and 4k individual and team event. Run to Support your local Airambulance Web-link
26 Aug18th Sept (Sat) Runners Fair at
26 Aug26 Sept (Sun)
NEWS & Results :
Newsletter-June
8 Aug. South-west Intercounties Champs . Click here .
27 July BMC 800s Exeter web-link & Exeter Open T&F
9/10 July English Schools T&F Championship, Birmingham. Charlie Maclean, Izzy Jeffs and Robin Danahar win Gold at
National Schools , with Silvers for Ronnie Wells and Blair Brown. A further eight TAC members were selected to compete for Somerset at this prestigious event with many National Standard performances, and helped Somerset to have their best ever team performance to take the C -Counties Trophy . Full results listings at ESSA-site. To read more - see the fuller coaches report here. .
4th July South West League Match 3 - Exeter ; TAC retain 2nd place in the League Div.1 with just one match to go. Full results see our SWAL pages. Final Match is on 5th Sept. at Exeter areana.
26/27th June SW Combined Events Champs - Exeter
29 June (Tues) Regional BMC 1500s - Exeter - link
19th June - 2010 Southwest Schools Championships.
Provisional Results just in :
Junior/Inter/Senior Girls
and here for Junior /Inter/Senior Boys
Sat 12 th June 2010 Somerset Schools T&F Champs.Five Taunton AC members (Ronni, Evie, Cath, Rob and Izzy ) reach National Entry standards, with several more attaining Eng. standards. Click here for full results of these and many other outstanding performances.
Sun 6th June - SWAL Match 2 - Exeter Arena. Several Championship Records broken by Taunton Athletes- Full Results here. Fuller report to follow + pics..
Sun 30th May - SWAL CUP Match - Carn Brae; see Swal pages
Sat. 8th May: Somerset County Track & Field Champs. Members of the Taunton Athletic Club hauled in a massive 50 medals at the Somerset AA County Championships last weekend. Read more...
Sunday 18th April : South-West Athletics League - Match 1 -Great team effort and turn-out at this first match helped us to gain a very close 2nd place in this 7 team match - just 9 points behind the 'home' team Yeovil . Full results click here.
For details of next match see our SWAL intro page.
2009 Track & Field results :
Tuesday 24 November 2009 : At Castle Track TAUNTON
2nd event in PUMA 3K Series. Results click here..
{Results for 27 Oct. event see same link}
Previous results links:
| 10-Jul | Fri | ESSA English Schools Champs, Sheffield | Results |
| 11-Jul | Sat | ESSA English Schools Champs, Sheffield | Results |
| 23Aug | Sun | SW Intercounties@Exeter [county selection] | . |
| 25Aug | Tue | T&F Exeter Open | details |
| 25Aug | Tue | T&F Exeter BMC 800s (follow open events) | details |
| 30Aug | Sun | T&F Yeovil Games / Dennett Trophy - all abil. | details |
| 06Sep | Sun | T&F SWAL 4 @ Exeter [club selection] | details |
| 13Sep | Sun | T&F Last Chance Saloon @ Braunton anyability | details |
| 26Sep | Sat | Road - South of England Relays - Aldershot | RR page |
(If you have results not yet listed email file or link to webmaster)
Past T&F NEWS & RESULTS:
Following the final Division 1 SWAL League Match on Sept. 6th, Taunton clinched the SWAL Championship for first time in the history of the club, finishing just one league point ahead of Cornwall AC for the season. Taunton AC needed to finish at least second in this last T&F match held at Exter arena, having won one and been placed second in two of the previous matches. A strong turn-out and some brilliant performance by our athletes helped TAC to finish a good second on the day to Cornwall ahead of last years winners Yeovil in third, and taking the overall 2009 Division 1 Trophy for Taunton. Detailed Results are now available - click here. Also Read More in fuller pdf-report from Charlotte Fisher here.
July'09 - Recent National Successes:
Massive Congrats to Hannah Taunton on winning the 1500m at the National Disability T&F Champs in Blackpool, with a PB of 5.29.
And to Blair Brown who finished 6th in the English Schools Champs (Inter-Boys) 1500m Steeplechase with new PB of 4m 33 sec. Full results link to T&F'2009 ESAA
5th July - SW Athletics League Match 3 - click here for provional results and Photos. Following another excellent result TAC moved to top of Division 1 - Lets make sure we stay there with full turn out for final match on 6th Sept. Full report see : Track&Field reports
July'09 - Taunton AC members win selection to National events:
Following their outstanding recent performances 5 members of the club were selected to represent Somerset Schools at the Aviva English Schools Track and Field Champs at the Don Valley Stadium in
Congratulations also to Hannah Taunton, who following trials in Bristol has been selected to run in the 1500m event for the Southwest team at the National Disability Championships in Blackpool the week-end of 4th and 5th July.
Click here to See Fuller report Track&Field reports
13 June Somerset Schools Champs: Results and
Photos
7 June SWAL Cup Match Caern Brae: Results and Photos 
May 24th - SWAL MATCH 2 Provisional Results are now available - see our SWAL pages and Galleries
9 May 2009 : Somerset County Championships - Well done all TAC athletes who competed for TAC or their schools at the 2009 County Track&Field Champs held on 9 May. For full results check out the SCAA web-site here . Numerous outstanding performances by TAC members included new county best performances for Robin Danahar in the U17M Javelin, Blair Brown U15M 1500m steeplechase, and Izzy Jeffs in the U20W Javelin
26/27 April 2009: Somerset & Dorset Multi Events Champs.- Taunton Juniors bring home the medals. Particular congrats to our younger athletes - with Luke Reynolds taking 1st and Joe MacConnell 2nd for Taunton AC, and Flora Larkin 2nd in the U13 girls, -
no mean feat with fields of
over 30 competitors in each competition ! For full results of all age categories (click here); more pictures see Galleries pages
19 April The first SouthWest Athletics League meeting was held on Sunday 19th at Yeovil - ..... and Taunton AC came 1st overall just ahead of Yeovil Olympiads ! For Results link see our SWAL pages. Fantatistic performances all round .!
26 Mar 2009 : Somerset Schools AA held the third out of season event at end of March AT TAUNTON ATHLETICS TRACK . This third event coverred JUMPS , HURDLES AND DISTANCE events for ALL age groups from u13 to u20 inclusive; incl High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump (not u13), Sprint Hurdles, 600m and 1200m events. Thanks to all who made this event a success. Click here to downlocad U13 results, and all here for all Other Age Group.
From last season:
Oct'08: ATHLETE OF THE YEAR - congratulations to Charlie Maclean on being named as the junior male English Athletic's Athlete of the Year for Southwest England. Among his achievements this season were 2nd at English Schools Champs, 3rd in UK School Games, and 3rd in the Home Countries Schools International.
Sept'08: Taunton AC retain 4th place Overall in Division 1 of the South West Athletics League at Final Match in Exeter on 7 September 2008. - Report & ResultsJuly / Aug'08: TAC members 'medal' at English School's Champs. Izzy Jeffs and Robin Danahar each take gold in U17W javelin and U15B javelin. Charlie Maclean claims silver in U17M steeplechase - followed by further medals for Charlie and Izzy at International Schools and UK School Games. Read more