GEMMA Shepherd will be hoping for a big performance on her final appearance in the South West Cross Country Championships, in Cheltenham, on Saturday.

The 18-year-old Sheldon School student, from Yatesbury, has swept through the district and county qualifying events with ease but will have to be at her best to challenge for a medal in the senior girls’ race.

Favourite will be Devon’s in-form Poppy Tank, who was second last year and has put together some terrific results this winter, while Cornwall’s Tess Masselink will also be a strong contender.

Shepherd was sixth last year having previously won silver in the inter girls’ and junior bronze.

St Augustine’s Rory Howorth looked impressive in winning the county junior boys’ title but will need his best performance of the season to make the medal podium.

The John of Gaunt School’s Freddie Webb was a surprise winner of the county inter boys’ title while school colleague Caitlin Wosika heads the inter girls’ challenge and should improve upon her 20th last year.

Wiltshire squad

Senior boys: Will Stockley, Jaymee Domoney, Cameron Perkins, Elliott Lassiter, Jacob Payne, Jacob Bacon, Dan Shepherd, Aidan Daniel, Sam Rockett, Jay Painter.

Inter boys: Freddie Webb, Hayden Bailey, Henry Dixon, Otto Copping, Jack Bennett, Dan Davis, Ethan Pierce, Joe Castle, Charlie Stockley.

Junior boys: Rory Howorth, Daniel Poynting, Robert Croager, Jordan Murray, Max Sockett, William Morris, Nick Battye, Thomas Musselwhite, Kye Teague, James Pickford.

Minor boys: Robert Jones, Oliver Phillips, Lewis Leftwich, Daniel Grant, Charles Hall, Ben Latham, Will Andrews, Byron Lloyd-Gilmour .

Senior girls: Gemma Shepherd, Elen Lindsay, Africa Wyles Saracibar, Edith Brazier, Hannah Thomas, Izzy Dickson, Holly Newman, Kiera Reavill, Emma Pike, Liberty Nicholls .

Inter girls: Caitlin Wosika, Jade Littlechild, Caroline Brenchley, Katie Strange, Lucy Fitzpatrick, Chloe Hayward, Chloe Crippen, Lily Battersby, Catriona Edington, Heidi Clothier.

Junior girls: Abigail Burn, Sophie Smith, India Ibbotson, Susannah Hirst, Louise Webb, Megan Poole, Madeleine Aldam-Gates, Katie Robinson, Isabella Goulding, Davina Gray.

Minor girls: Olivia Roderick , Rose Warren, Imogen Tanner , Anna Payne, Orli Cranston, Virginia Jacobs, Alice Thornton, Ayla Tonkin, Bluebell Jenner, Isabella Wolsey.