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We hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas and New Year break! Good news is for those in town we are back at Amaroo THIS SATURDAY! A great holiday boredom buster - get the kids moving back at little athletics!
This Saturday's program is now available. If you are an age group manager but can't make it this weekend please either arrange a replacement or email us. During these holiday meets we often run smaller groups so may only need one manager per age group due to lower numbers. NO THURSDAY TRAINING UNTIL FEBRUARY 4th We will NOT be running Thursday training over January. First training of 2021 will be February 4th.
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The program for this Saturday's meet is now available. This will be our final meet before the Xmas break. We return on 16th January 2021.  This week we are hosting our Friday Twilight meet due to the ACT Relay Carnival being held on Saturday.
Start times are: Under 6, 7, 8 AND 9 - 5.15pm events start. Under 10 - 17 - 6.30pm events start. Meeting areas will be the same as normal. UNDER 9 FAMILIES PLEASE NOTE - your events will in the FIRST session for this week only. Please come at 5.15pm. There wont be any 1500m or walks run this week. This week's program is now available. ROSTER We currently need the following roles filled on the roster. Set-up Javelin - 6pm Set-up Senior Throws - 6pm Round track recorder - 6.30pm session Straight track Starter - 6.30pm session Pack-up - 2 people If you are able to help please get in touch ASAP to enquiries@gunlac.org.au. CANTEEN Andrea and her team at the canteen have you all sorted for dinner with the usual BBQ PLUS Nachos, Spaghetti Bolognese and dumplings. We take cash and cards at the canteen. We had another fabulous meet on Saturday - it was a hot one but our athletes were brilliant breaking over 320 PBs! Our ribbon writers will be busy this week ready for our first round of PB ribbons to be handed out next weekend! A big congratulations to Sarah L from Under 15 girls who broke the High Jump Record - a huge jump of 1.46cm! Sarah now owns the Under 13, 14 and 15 Girls GUNLAC High jump records! Program and Duty Roster This week's program is now available and roster reminders have been sent to those on the roster. If you are on the roster but can't attend please let us know ASAP so we can fill your spot. This week we currently need THREE track helpers for session 2 (Under 9-17), one for each track (straight, round and hurdles). If you can help please email us at enquiries@gunlac.org.au. Relay Carnival Entries are currently open for the ACT Athletics relay carnival which will be held on Saturday 12th December. Due to COVID the carnival will be run in sessions and will be track only events. Find all the information you need on the Relay Carnival Page. Friday Twilight Meet On Friday 11th December we will hold a Friday Twilight meet instead of our regular Saturday morning meet (due to the relay carnival being held on the Saturday). The start times for this meet will be: Session 1 5.15pm - 6.15pm - Under 6, 7, 8 AND 9 (Under 9s finish time expected to be 6.30pm approx). Session 2 - Start time 6.30pm (finish approx 8pm) - Under 10-17 groups Note that Under 9 groups will be in SESSION 1 for this meet only. GUNLAC Committee Meeting The next GUNLAC Committee meeting will be held tomorrow (Thursday 3rd December) via zoom, commencing at 7.30pm. All parents are welcome to join us! If you are interested in contributing, email us at enquiries@gunlac.org.au and we can confirm the zoom details. Training Check out the training page for this week's training sessions.  Our Week 3 meet last Saturday was another brilliant morning on the track, fabulous running conditions and lots of PBs! A huge thanks to everyone who answered our call for track helpers - we were happily inundated with offers for help! Thanks also to all our set-up and pack-up helpers. Club records FIVE Club records were broken last Saturday - special mention to Ella H in Under 11 girls who broke two records in the morning - 1100m Walk and the 80 metre hurdles. Mitchell D (under 11 boys) also broke the 80m hurdles record and Cooper Jenner broke his own record on hurdles for 14 boys. Huge jumping from Chloe K in the 13 Girls on Triple with a jump of 10.08 to break the previous record by 13cm! Program This week's program is now available. Under 10 Girls and Boys, Senior Girls and 13/14 Girls are all on HIGH JUMP. These are all big groups and we will have shades up at the High Jump areas given the forecast hot weather. Parents from these groups - we'd love some set up help with mats and shades! Under 9s are on 400m for the first time and Under 11 Boys will be on Triple for the first time. We've allowed extra time for the 11 Boys to practice technique before measured jumps. Given the weather forecast we'd like to get all events started on time this week. Second session events should commence by 9.45am - particularly if you are on a field event please start by 9.45am to avoid holding up other groups later in the program. Late arrivals can meet groups at the event area. This week's Duty Roster Roster reminders have been sent to those families who are on roster this week. We have the following gaps on set-up and track helpers for the second session - Set-up person - Senior throws (8.45am) Track officials for Senior session in the following roles: Straight track disc person Straight track Starter Round track recorder Hurdles track recorder If you can help please email us at enquiries@gunlac.org.au. PB ribbons Our fabulous athletes have already broken 381 PBs this season! We're excited that we have 1 athlete already on 5 PBs who will get their Blue ribbon this week. There are also many other athletes very close to their first ribbon. This means potentially a busy week next week for our ribbon writers! For new families, we reward Personal Bests with PB ribbons to emphasise improvement over the season. PB ribbon levels for Under 7-17 athletes are: Blue - 5 PBs, Red - 10 PBs, Green - 15 PBs and Gold - 20 PBs. For Under 6 athletes the levels are: Blue - 2 PBs, Red - 5 PBs, Green - 10 Pbs, Gold - 15 PBs. Relay carnival Families would have received an email from Little Athletics ACT about the up-coming relay carnival which is on Saturday 12th December. This year due to COVID there will only be track relays at the carnival and there will be set sessions for age groups. We will be emailing families soon with specific details about the carnival. With the relay carnival on December 12th we will have a Friday twilight meet on Friday 11th December.  This week's program is now available. Under 10 Girls and Boys, Senior Girls and 13/14 Girls are all on HIGH JUMP. These are all big groups and we will have shades up at the High Jump areas given the forecast hot weather. Parents from these groups - we'd love some set up help with mats and shades! Under 9s are on 400m for the first time and Under 11 Boys will be on Triple for the first time. We've allowed extra time for this group to practice technique before measured jumps. Given the weather forecast we'd like to get all events started on time this week. Second session events should commence by 9.45am - particularly if you are on a field event please start by 9.45am. Late arrivals can meet groups at the event area.  Thursday training this week at Amaroo will be HURDLES for Under 7-10s, plus DISCUS. Under 11 and older will do Javelin and Discus. Training starts at 5.15pm, no need to register just come along for some fun and training, get ready for Saturday competition!  We had perfect weather for our meet on Saturday - lots of brilliant PBs on the 100 metres and 200 metres, the tracks were super fast! Well done to our Under 9s on completing their first 800m you all did an amazing job. Also great job to our Under 8s with their first hurdles races - they seemed to enjoy it! A big thank you to all our set-up and pack-up helpers, canteen helpers and track officials.
Two Club Records were broken in week 2, both in the 400 metres - Ethan C (under 11) and Jaime B (under 16). Both Ethan and Jaime broke multiple records last season and they are starting off season 2020-21 in great form again! Congratulations also to Cooper Jenner who broke the U14 Hurdles record in Week 1. This week's program The program for this Saturday is now available. A few things to note:
Reminders for this week's roster have been sent out. We will need extra help in the following areas:
Thursday Training Thursday Training this week will be HIGH JUMP - both scissors (U9-10) and flop technique (U11 +). These are always really useful sessions for athletes early in the season to learn and practice good technique. Under 7s and 8s will be doing throws and some sprints and games with our junior coaches. Training starts at 5.15pm Thursdays at Amaroo oval. Equipment Officers NEEDED!!! Our season is well underway but we are still keen to get one or two people as equipment and grounds officers. The role is essentially to manage our equipment, keeping a record of stock, ordering new equipment as needed and communicating any grounds issues to the ACT government. This role is NOT to do the whole set up and pack up every week, though often equipment people will help coordinate what gear goes out and will be available to check any gear which needs replacing. Currently this role is being covered by other Committee members who are already very busy so we would love someone to come in and take it on! If you are interested or have questions email us at enquiries@gunlac.org.au. It was fantastic to finally start our season last Saturday! Many thanks to all our helpers, Age Group managers and officials who made it happen. Also a huge thank you to our Junior Coaches who were fabulous. This weekend the forecast is looking good for another great meet at Amaroo. Program This week's program is now available. A few things to note - Under 11s are on HIGH JUMP but as this is their first session on the flop technique we will run this as a technique session to teach the athletes correct, safe flop technique. The advantage of doing this rather than a measured session is all the athletes can practice the skill multiple times and get confidence. Under 11 age group managers will be contacted directly about this session. Under 9s are on 800 metres for the first time (new event for them) and therefore will have four events in total. They will have five in other weeks with the exception of High Jump weeks. Long Jumps Update We are currently not using Long Jump Pits 5 and 6 while we wait for the ACT Government to install new run-ups. This was an upgrade that was due to be done before the start of the season but has been delayed due to rain. We are hoping this will be done next week. At the moment the Committee does not believe the pits are safe to use due to the take off mats being overgrown. This week Under 10 boys have been moved to pit 1 and 2 to avoid line ups on other pits. Registration numbers This Saturday we'd love to see as many athletes as possible with their 2020-21 registration numbers on their shirts. Please make sure you take off last year's numbers. Visible numbers on shirts makes track recording much quicker and more accurate, and ultimately gets our meets finished faster! Online results All results for registered athletes are available online via ResultsHQ. If you do not have your log-in you can email us to get a reset. Track helpers - Junior Session This week Under 7s and Under 6s are only Straight track only, with Under 8s on hurdles and round track. At the moment we don't have any parents rostered on for hurdles and round track - and are asking Under 8 parents to help out as these are your athlete's events (we will run one track at a time). If you can help please email us at enquiries@gunlac.org.au. Track helpers - Senior session We currently need one additional helper on hurdles and one on round track for the Under 9-17 session. If you can help please email us at enquiries@gunlac.org.au. Pack-up - please stay to help! Last Saturday we had some brilliant pack-up helpers from two families but other rostered parents did not stay to help pack up. We appreciate all helpers, please if you are rostered on just 30 minutes of assistance makes a big difference. Often while events are still going there are some areas which can start to be packed up. If you are not sure ask a Committee member in the red shirt.  |