SCHOOLS SUPER8

A NEW TEAM ATHLETICS FORMAT FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

After a very successful pilot of Schools Super8 in Wiltshire in 2009
(click here for results) and the inter-school supporting act for the UKA Inter-city Super8 event featuring the countries top athletes in Cardiff (www.uka.org.uk/competitions/super-8) QuadKids is now piloting Schools Super8 in selected counties across the UK.

England Athletics Super8

Download Super8 Leaflet

Schools Super8 is a quick, fun, participative format to revitalise inter-secondary school athletics competition. A key premise, is that a Super8 event with eg 8 schools and 130 athletes should be completed in less than 2 hrs. The format being piloted has common principles with both QuadKids for primary schools and the traditional English Schools Cup.

Schools Super8, is built around 8 events (4 track & 4 field) and 2 relays. Teams are made up of 8 boys & 8 girls, but single sex competition is also possible. Each athlete does 1 track, 1 field and 1 relay event. Times and distances are scored against standard points tables, and the team score is the aggregate of the 8 or 16 athlete totals

The Quadkids team are delivering Schools Super8 and we can provide manuals, declaration forms, template timetables, track and field card and the spreadsheet. Please contact Cathy Temple-Brown (cathy@quadkids.org) 07887970752 for more information.