Sprinter Rees sets record but aims for more

Alisha Rees sets herself such high standards that despite breaking the Scottish 60m women’s indoor record for the second time this year at the British universities and colleges championships in Sheffield, the Torphins athlete was still disappointed.

Cheyanne EvansGray (East London University) won the race in a personal best and championship record of 7:28, with Rees, a student at Loughborough University, second in 7:33 and Ebony Carr (Loughborough) third in 7:41.

Rees’s time improved on the 7:33 she set when winning the Scottish title in Glasgow a fortnight earlier.

She said: “I wanted to win but I felt out of

“Ihopetorun faster next weekinfrontof home crowd”

things a bit as I was in lane three with an empty lane next to me.

“The other two girls were quite far away in lanes five and six.

“I thought Cheyanne would do well and I guess beforehand I knew it would be between the three of us.”

The Banchory Stonehaven AC sprinter hopes to bring the curtain down on her indoor season with another top display in next weekend’s British championships at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena. She said: “I hope to run faster next week and I’m planning not to finish second.

“It’ll be good running in front of a home crowd. Hopefully I can run sub 7:30.”

If she had achieved that sort of time Rees would have been in line for a place on the Great Britain team for world indoor championships due to have been held in China in March, but now cancelled due to concerns over the coronavirus.