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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.

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NEWS & Results :

SWAL Match 4 Sept 2011: Well done all who competed and supported TAC at Yeovil on 4th September - It was a great day with Taunton AC not only notching up our first win out of the 4 matches this season against the 6 other SW clubs in SWAL League Div 1, but moving us back up also to a very respectable 3rd overall in the League for the 2011 season. Outstanding individual performances on the day included 3 new SWAL records by TAC athletes - Cath Blew (U20W 3000m 9:28) , Blair Brown (U20M 5000m 15:48), Katie Cross (U15G Discus 34.36m) . Thanks to all team managers and other volunteers as well as coaches and athletes who assisted with SWAL this year. Provisional indivdual results for Match 4 click here.

July 17th SWIC - full official results not yet available - but re-check at SCAA link shortly. We understand Somerset came a very respectable second overall among all the Southwest counties competing. Many thanks to all who athletes, managers and officials who supported this event. See Powerof10 link here for individual performances.

July 3rd - SWAL Match 3 :. Many congrats on a number of excellent individual performances (full Results available here - now include Track events) including wins in their respective age-groups - in Javelin :Robin Danahar & Charlie Granville & Josie Loxton, Shot Put: Robin Danaher & George Giles; 100m: Rosie Coles, George Giles; 200m: Abigail Barton & Elliot Scott; 1500m: Like Scott; HJ; Evie Grogan; LJ: Luke Reynolds However - with only quite few of our athletes attending TAC' s position in the league on the day was one of our lowest for a long time. A fuller team across all age groups will be needed at the last match on 4th September to assure our place in Division 1 of the SW Athletics League next year.

July 1/2 : Well done to all our Junior, Inter and Senior Schools age competitors who reached the entry standards and were selected to represent Somerset at the National English Schools Athletics Champs at Gateshead, where TAC members made up almost 1/2 of the 25 strong Somerset team. Full results are available here - including national bronze medals for Katie Cross (junior girls Discus 34.02m) and Josie Loxton. (junior girls Javelin 34.02) (No its not a typo - both achieved identical national standard peformances to the nearest centimeter in different events!) 

SWAL 2 - In Pictures - Photos (by Chris Holmes) from 29th May Track & Field Match at Exeter now uploaded - click image.

8 & 11 June 2011 Somerset Schools Junior and Senior Champs - For full results see Somerset Schools Athletics site.

4 June 2011 : PBs tumble at first Taunton AC / North Devon AC Graded Open track meet. Po10 Results click here.

SWAL Match2 May 29th : Results now available click here and for individual performance summary click here. Photos of this event now uploaded click here

Somserset County T&F Champs 14/15May - Results available for download here. Medals galore for TAC members. More detailed report to follow.

Somerset & Dorset Combined Events Champs 7/8 May - Results now at Somerset Schools Site. Many congrats to TAC members Harry Hall and BenThompson - respresenting their school West Somerset Community College) on becoming Somerset Champions in Inter boys and Senior Boys respectively. Click here for full Combined Events results and some others outstanding performances by our athletes.

SWAL – Match 1 : Sunday 17th April. Results for this first Match of the season are now available here . Taunton AC - with a much smaller team than normal - managed to just cling on to third place with a few points ahead of Exeter. Well done and thanks to all those who competed and helped on the day. ALL active members Please ensure to contact your coach or age-group team managers well in advance of the next match on 29th May to let them know you are available to compete, to ensure we have a fuller team available next time.

NEW Heights for Evie
Evie Grogan demonstrated her dedication to winter training is paying off with a 1.70m high jump at the combined South West & Midland Indoor Championships. Congratulations to Evie on becoming the South West Indoor Champion for 2011. Read more here.

2010 News archive:

SWAL Track & Field - Taunton miss Southwest League Division 2010 title by a whisker to Cornwall AC , finishing equal first with 28 match points for the season, though placed second to CAC on count back of total league points scored by all althletes. Full Results of the last (Match 4) of the season now available. Photos will be posted shortly.

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.