YDL FINAL - North Wales Team

10/09/25

The weekend of 6th and 7th September 2025 saw the YDL National Finals, with our composite team from North Wales, taking to the upper YDL final on September 7th at Wavertree Stadium, Liverpool.

North Wales were against teams from Team Avon, City of York, Blackheath and Bromley, Rugby and Northampton and Harrow and Dacorum. This annual event sees the best teams from England and Wales, who have won their regional finals, competing to take the National Title.

Among a strong North Wales Team were NDP athletes Aidan Angilletta (Deeside AAC) who topped the most points won for the North Wales team winning all of his U17 events across the 3 qualifying rounds and Olivia Schrimshaw (Deeside AAC) topping the individual event scoring, with other NDP athletes Huw Williams (Menai) and Cara Scott(Menai) helping the Team reach the Final by just 7 points ahead of Trafford. 

  At the Final, which saw a deluge of rain descend, the standard of competition increased with high expectations for Blackheath and Bromley to repeat their 2024 success.  Competition was fierce and in good spirit edged on by a great crowd.

North Wales started well with brother and sister Gethin and Megan Brown(Deeside) taking bronze in Hammer and Discus respectively. Huw Williams was on fantastic form with a Gold medal performance in the U20 mens 400m hurdles, Silver in 110m hurdles and 100m with Bronze at High Jump. 

Olivia Schrimshaw registered her 1st Gold Medal in Long Jump with an impressive 5.89m, to add to her tally of Gold in Triple Jump and Silver for 80m Hurdles. 

Another impressive performance saw Aidan Angilletta smash his previous  U17 Long Jump best taking his new PB out to 6.49m finishing in the Silver Medal position.

Annabelle Jones of Wrexham AAC took Gold in U17 Javelin and Silver in Discus while Deeside Athletes Orla Kissane U17 High Jump won Gold, and Megan Wood  in the B event Triple Jump also took Gold.

On the track another family success came from Menai brothers Hari and Tomos Rigby with Hari Bronze for the U17 400m A race and Tomos Bronze in the 100m B race.

Colwyn Bay athletes Reuben Crierie U17 finished with Bronze in the 1500m Steeplechase and fellow club athlete Eira Owen taking Bronze in the 800m.

Other winning medal performances also came from Isobella Gunn U20 Triple Jump, Michael Phelan Bronze U17 Steeplechase, Isla Pastor  Bronze U17 Steeplechase, Toby Lemon Silver U17 400m hurdles and Triple Jump, Osian Parry Silver 3000m, Zac Campbell Gold 3000m, Lucy Jones Gold Long Jump and Silver 400m, Sarah Smith U17 Bronze Steeplechase, Issac Bromwich Silver U20 Javelin, Harry Greta U20 Bronze Shot,  Jake Rowlands Bronze Triple Jump and Silver High Jump and Dylan Byram Bronze U20 100m. 

As expected Blackheath and Bromley took the title with North Wales finishing a respectable 5th place overall with a medal tally of 14 Gold, 19 Silver and 10 Bronze,  which is a fantastic achievement for a team from Wales to qualify for a such a prestigious and highly competitive National Final.

Managed by Deeside coaches Tania Williams and Rocco Angilletta they both agreed that  ''this shows the high quality of athletes we have from all over Wales and puts the North Wales Team in a great position to push on and prepare to compete at a  higher level and hopefully reach another Final next year''.  

Congratulations and a huge well done to all taking part!