IT WOULD seem that many of the athletes from the Mount Isa Athletics Club were saving their best for the last day of the season with an unprecedented three competitors achieving the five from five personal best milestone last Sunday morning.

Nine-year-old Daniel Butler’s 100 per cent attendance and consistent improvement throughout the season paid off with impressive personal bests in all of his events.

Thirteen-year-olds Cassidy Givney and Rhys Munns were challenging each other all morning and resulted in each having four personal bests with an 800m race to come.

The pace at the start seemed unusually slow until the crowd spurred them on with cheers of encouragement.

With both girls racing the clock to beat their own times it was all or nothing.

In a spirited finish, Givney came home in 0.7 seconds under her previous best and Munns finished with seconds to spare.

Three others were “ever so close” to achieving the perfect score.

Eight-year-old Courtney Boshoff was superb in four of her events but finished with an equal height in the high jump.

It must have been even more frustrating for Reece Ryan, 8, who had personal bests in three events and jumped an equal height in his high jump as well as matching his previous 200m time.

Jakara Carney, 9, also managed four from five on her return from the Northern Regions Little Athletics Zone Championships where she qualified to compete at the State Championships in Townsville next March.

Tremaine Body, 5, managed to match fellow athlete Denzil Perkins’ new 100m record but ran second to Perkins who set a new mark of 19.9 seconds.

Ben Burke, 14, found his rhythm in the hammer throw with a six metre personal best which pushed his record out to 24.42m.

Holly Johnstone was pleased to see her times for the 200m steadily dropping when she lowered the record to 27.4 seconds and Mars Larsen and James Sweeney were both making it increasingly difficult for future 15-year-olds when they set new marks for the long jump and shot puts with distances of 5.51m and 11.22m, respectively.

Once again there was no shortage of athletes to acquire Legend Award levels with Brendan Kelly, Otto Tweedie, Jakara Carney, Jemma Russell, Emma Johnstone, Adam Farlow, Bradley Watt and Ben Burke all taking honours.

Jade Scott also took home the award in her season debut, achieving legendary status in high jump and training javelin.

All awards and certificates will be presented along with end of season trophies and personal best certificates at the upcoming season break-up at Tony White Oval on Sunday, November 1, starting at 3pm.