Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s Molly Caudery and Jake Norris are among the winners of the annual National Athletics League Awards following the 2024 season.
Caudery, who set a new British pole vault record of 4.92m this year, is the NAL’s Female Field Athlete of the Year, having cleared an all-time league record of 4.50m for Thames Valley Harriers at Eton in June.
Jake Norris, who won all three of his NAL Premiership matches for Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow, has been named as Male Field Athlete of the Year.
Tyri Donovan also broke an all-time league record, with a personal best of 49.23s to seal victory in the 400m hurdles at Eton’s season-opening match.
That time usurped the mark of Olympian Chris Rawlinson, who clocked 49.40s for Belgrave Harriers in the old British Athletics League as far back as 1999.
He gets Male Track Athlete of the Year, with Jessica Tappin winning Female Track Athlete of the Year for her part in TVH’s title success.
Tappin competed in five individual NAL races in 2024 over four different distances (100m, 200m, 400m and 400m hurdles), winning three of them.
Donovan and Tappin receive £500 as part of the David Jeacock Memorial Bursary Award for their performances.
Shaftesbury Barnet went the whole season undefeated to secure promotion up to the Premiership for 2025 and as a result, they will formally be presented with the Championship Champions Trophy.
Divisional award recipients are those who achieve the highest number of points for a single NAL event based upon Professor Mick Bromilow’s Event Scoring Table.
Athletes must be from NAL member clubs and must have been declared as scoring athletes within the event.
They cannot also be the recipient of the Athlete of the Year Award.
Birchfield Harriers’ Efekemo Okoro, who improved his 400m and 400m hurdles personal bests across the 2024 season, has been named as Premiership Athlete of the Year as a result of his 49.90s for second place behind Donovan.
Joe Brier, who helped Swansea Harriers seal top spot in the Championship West and a place at the Promotion Match, is the Championship Athlete of the Year.
Brier ran a time of 46.16 to win on home soil in June.
The awards will be formally presented at England Athletics Hall of Fame Evening on 2nd November in Leicester.
NAL Awards 2024
NAL Male Field Athlete of the Year – Jake Norris, WSEH 76.93m Hammer
NAL Female Field Athlete of the Year – Molly Caudery, TVH 4.50m Pole Vault
NAL Male Track Athlete of the Year – Tyri Donovan, WSEH 49.23 400m Hurdles
NAL Female Track Athlete of the Year – Jessica Tappin, TVH 57.31 400m Hurdles
Premiership Champions Trophy 2024 – Thames Valley Harriers
Championship Champions Trophy 2024 – Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers
David Jeacock Memorial Bursary – Tyri Donovan, WSEH 49.23 400m hurdles and Jessica Tappin, WSEH 57.31 400m hurdles
WSEH Premiership Athlete of the Year – Efekemo Okoro, Birchfield Harriers 49.90 400m hurdles
Championship Athlete of the Year – Joe Brier, Swansea Harriers 46.16 400m
