Hercules Wimbledon Athletic Club athletes and officials have been gaining plaudits off the track.

The club's president, David Littlewood, was awarded the Reg Bale Trophy for officials for 2009/2010 by the Surrey County Athletic Association.

Despite the wide-ranging demand on his services, Littlewood, who is secretary of the English Schools Athletics Association and the British representative on the International Association of Athletic Federations technical committee, was able to find time to officiate at both the Surrey indoor championships at Sutton a few weeks ago and the outdoor championships at Kingsmeadow Stadium last May, support now formally recognised by the county association.

At the start of the year he was honoured by the Queen by being made an MBE in the New Year's honours for services to voluntary sport.

Littlewood was unable to receive the award at Surrey's AGM as he was busy helping with the organisation of the English schools cross country championships in Manchester the same weekend. However, he was presented with it at Hercules Wimbledon's AGM at Wimbledon Park Golf Club a few days later.

Littlewood swapped roles as he presented the club's annual awards there.

The recipients included two of the club's most successful athletes during the winter - Liam White, the Surrey County and London Schools U17 cross country champions and Alex Robinson, the Surrey junior men's title winner. Robinson was also awarded the plaque for winning the junior men's section in the Surrey cross country league where Joe Clark and Ed Saywell were the U15 and U7 winners.

Cassian Hyde, in his first season of cross country racing, was another award winner at the Hercules Wimbledon AGM winning the Dave Clarke Trophy. He had an outstanding winter, just missing out on a medal in the Surrey cross country championships after being misdirected by a course marshal and representing Surrey in the UK Inter-Counties cross country championships in Birmingham.

Liam White got a further reward when he was presented with a Sports Aid Grant by Olympic swimmer Mark Foster at the Active Wandsworth Award at Wandsworth Town Hall. The award was made in recognition of his significant improvement in the last 12 months under his coach Maurice Sharp illustrated by his winning the UK School Games 1500m title last summer as well as taking the bronze medal in the English schools intermediate boys 1500m championship after failing the make the final and finishing eighth in his heat in the previous season.

Another Hercules Wimbledon winner at the Active Wandsworth Awards was Tom Pollak, who has just completed a year as president of the Surrey County Athletic Association and who managed the club's senior men's team to fifth place in the Southern Men's League, their best performance for more than a decade. He was presented with the oustanding achievement award for voluntary services to sport.

A part of around two dozen Hercules Wimbledon athletes are spending Easter on the Isle of Man taking part in the island's Easter road running festival. The group includes teenagers Liam White and Alex Robinson, Alex Bruce-Littlewood, Kieran White and Mike Halman.

The squad showed good form in their final races before dashing off to the island. Halman warmed up for the Isle of Man by finishing 25th out of almost 3700 runners in the Wilmslow half-marathon in one hour 10 minutes 15 seconds, Bruce-Littlewood finished 10th out of 300 runners in the Victoria Park five miles event in 25:07 while Robinson was third out of more than 170 runners in the Kingston 10km event in 33:53.

Still on the roads, Neil Aitken posted the fastest 10km time by a Hercules Wimbledon runner this year when he won the Brooklands 10km event at Weybridge on Sunday in 32:56.

Hercules Wimbledon take part in the final East Surrey League event of the season when they compete in the road races at West Ewell on Tuesday night (April 6) starting at 7pm. The senior, juniors and veterans start their four miles race at 7pm with the under 13's off on their two miles five minutes later.