​Moorfoot Runners’ Jack Foley joins Gala Harrier Isla Paterson among six Scottish junior hill-running champions for 2024

Jack Foley at 2024’s Cademuir Rollercoaster 3km junior hill-race in August (Photo: Mark Johnston)Jack Foley at 2024’s Cademuir Rollercoaster 3km junior hill-race in August (Photo: Mark Johnston)
Jack Foley at 2024’s Cademuir Rollercoaster 3km junior hill-race in August (Photo: Mark Johnston)
​Gala Harriers’ Isla Paterson and Moorfoot Runners’ Jack Foley have been named as Scottish Athletics Junior Hill-Running League champions for 2024.

​Paterson tops the under-20 women’s class and Foley is top boy under 15, with Gala’s Seb Darlow as runner-up.

Gala’s Kacie Brown also claimed a runner-up spot, to Inverness Harriers’ Anna Meeks in the under-15 girls’ class.

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This year’s final standings were confirmed by the last of the league’s eight races for this season at Suidhe Hill at Kincraig in the Highlands on Saturday, though the under-20 league’s season – also over eight races, including, like the under-17 and under-15 contest, ones at Melrose in June and Peebles in August – wrapped up in Aberdeenshire in mid-August.

Foley was first under-15 and sixth overall in the weekend’s near-5km race, near Aviemore, with Darlow second in that age bracket and ninth all told and his dad Tim 11th overall and second veteran over the age of 40.

Paterson – selected as part of a five-strong Scottish team contesting the 7.2km Trofeo Vanoni race in Morbegno in Italy on Sunday, October 27 – amassed 89 points from five races to win her class.

Moorfoot’s Thomas Hilton ended up third, on 74 points, in the under-20 men’s standings, with Gala’s Zico Field and Irvine Welsh fourth on 65 and sixth on 62 respectively.

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Foley picked up 97 points from four meetings to top his class, with Darlow on 93 and Gala’s Charlie Dalgliesh third on 73.

Moorfoot’s Thea Harris was third, behind second-placed Brown’s tally of 79 points, on the under-15 girls’ leaderboard with 71.

Gala’s Kirsty Rankine and Ava Richardson placed third and fourth respectively, with 79 and 77, in the under-17 girls’ standings, topped by Fife’s Eliza Koenig with 81.

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