The team of young women, who first joined Warriors Pentathlon and Athletics Club between the ages of 9 and 12, have become the dominant U16 girls squad in Britain. Even more remarkably, they all live within 10 miles of each other, in some cases even on the same street.

This year these girls have won a clean sweep of all the major UK titles, beating the best athletes from over 2,000 other clubs to to win the North West Road Relays, the Northern Road Relays, the National Road relays, and on top of that the Northern Cross country relays and finally the ECCA Cross Country relays held in Mansfield last month.

The group have all progressed under the careful eye of Ronan and Sarah Kearney, who have been shortlisted in the top three of talent development coaches in the UK.

Ronan said: "These young women have carefully and steadily developed their endurance and speed to the point where they are quite literally unbeatable.

"It's a feat that is un-paralleled by any Wirral athletics team in over 100 years of competitive running.

"To give you an idea of how fast these young women are, they won their races at an average speed of 3.31 minutes per kilometre, or the same as running a 5k at 17 minutes and 35 seconds.

"We very much look forward to seeing what they can do in the next few years, the future is incredibly bright for a golden generation of Wirral athletes."