CARRBROOK athlete Amy Starkey achieved a top-10 finish in the Northern Indoor Championships in Sheffield.
The 15-year-old East Cheshire Harriers’ member achieved an indoor personal best of 8.60m in the shott putt which earned her 10th place.
Amy, a pupil at Mossley Hollins High School, was competing in the Under-17 age group and, aged 15, was one of the youngster competitors.
She has featured regularly in the Correspondent for her exploits as she is a member of the Venture Athletics multi-event development group which is based at Manchester’s SportCity.
And an all-rounder in track and field events, Amy is seeking to emulate the achievements of champion heptathletes Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson who are her role models.
Amy caught the running bug off her uncle Andi Jones who was a well-known and successful marathon and fell runner.
Initially the former pupil at St Raphael’s Primary, Millbrook, enjoyed cross country and long-distance running before switching to concentrate on field events – she also excels at discus.