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Championship Day rescheduled Saturday 28 March 2009
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Saturday 14 March

From before sunrise this morning the Croydon Athletics Track was a hive of activity. The enthusiastic participation of member families in the detailed setup was a fantastic start to the 2009 Championship Day.

After an energetic start, and due to the much welcomed rain sweeping across most of the state today, the Centre's Championship Day was prematurely brought to a close. Having completed several events, commenced heats in many more and with a number of medal presentations still outstanding the remaining event program will be completed on Saturday 28 March 2009. Further details of the remaining program will be available here over the coming days.

Finally, thank you and congratulations to all member families that assisted with the early morning set-up and rain drenched pack-up of the event and ceremony equipment.

Thursday 12 March

The results from Week 19 of competition are now available by clicking here for Boys & Girls or alternatively by following the links on the results page.

Sunday 8 March

State Track & Field Qualifiers

Congratulations to the 30 Croydon Athletes who have qualified for the State Track & Field Championships at Olympic Park on the 21-22 March.

For full progression lists please click here for boys and girls.

If you cannot compete at the State Championships, can you please advise Leigh Murphy prior to 5 March.  This will allow other athlete to progress from any scratchings.  Final progressions will be published on 10 March. 

Saturday 21 February

EMR Track & Field Results

Congratulations to all of the 50 athletes who represented Croydon last weekend at the Region Track and Field Championships.  A large number of athletes achieved some great PB’s in smoky and windy conditions – particularly our sprinters on Sunday.  Medals were achieved across many events including hurdles, sprints, discus, shot put, high jump, triple jump and middle distance – all our athletes gave their best and achieved some outstanding results.

Croydon athletes achieved

13 Gold
8 Silver
9 Bronze

A big thank you to all the parents who assisted in duty over the weekend and made the event enjoyable for all. For more details from the weekend, including full results and photos, clicking here.

State Track & Field Timetable

The timetable for the upcoming State Track & Field Championships, to be held 21-22 March 2009 at Olympic Park, is available for download by clicking here.

Tuesday 10 February

This week's competition is a twilight meet and will commence at 6:00 pm sharp on Friday 13 February 2009. The Centre will be running to Twilight Program 2, not Program 1 as scheduled in the 2008/09 Handbook due to the cancellation of the last twilight comp.

Saturday 7 February

The 2009 CLAC Championship Day will held on Saturday 14 March 2009, please note that this is different to the date printed in the 2008/09 Handbook. The change of date is a result of VLAA rescheduling the State Championships to 21 & 22 March 2009.

The entry form for Championship Day is now available for download by clicking here. A written entry form must be submitted to the Centre President for all athletes wishing to participate by 1pm on 14 February 2009.

Sunday 1 February

The entry form for the 2009 CLAC Championship Day is now available for download by clicking here. A written entry form must be submitted to the Centre President for all athletes wishing to participate by 1pm on 14 February 2009.

For more information regarding any aspect of Championship Day please contact your Club President.

Saturday 22 November

Today's competition has been cancelled due to rain. For those that can not wait until next Saturday for their weekly fix of Little Aths, training for track and field events takes place on Wednesday evenings at Croydon's home track (Town Park) commencing at around 5:00pm.

For more info click here.

Box Hill LAC Invitational Relays, 26 October 2008

Another strong performance from the Croydon team at Box Hill for our warm up to Region Relay in 2 weeks. Congratulations to all the kids who competed throughout the day with Croydon finishing the Medal Tally ranked 5th overall, with the centre achieving

2 Gold Medals
6 Silver Medals
2 Bronze Medals

Click here for a complete summary of the days medal tally or here for the full results.

Friday 17 October

Relays are a great opportunity to have your children participating in a team environment and the start of the summer season also begins Croydon Little Athletics Centre involvement in relays. Relays are open to all athletes who participate in the U9 to U15 age group.

For further information please click here or contact CLAC Team Manager Leigh Murphy.

Wednesday 8 October

The Director of Competition (DoC) has advised that program 2 is very busy and all athletes are asked to be ready to commence the day's competition at 8:45am sharp. This will require clubs to have their allocated event equipment set and ready with marshals in place well prior to the scheduled commencement of the day's events.

Sunday 5 October

Despite some last minute early morning organisation, the opening day of the 2008/09 Summer Season kicked off successfully. Thank you to the parents and committee members who have contributed many hours of their time to see the athletes get out on the track for another year. Without the contribution of everyone, the ability of the Centre to achieve the objectives of "fun, family & fitness" for our children can not happen.

On behalf of the Centre President and the 2008/09 Committee thank you for your participation and welcome to the season!

Saturday 13 September

Thank you to all those athletes and their parents, carers and friends that participated in the 2008/09 summer season registration day. Despite the wind playing occasional havoc with shelters and paperwork the warm sunny weather brought together clubs and friends for the excitement of the coming season.

The Croydon Little Athletics Centre is very happy to see athletes return from previous seasons and extends a friendly welcome to new athletes and their families for the upcoming 2008/09 summer season which kicks off on October 4, 2008.

If you were not able to attend registration day but would like to participate in Little Athletics contact clac49@hotmail.com or Carolyn on 9733 4352 for further information. Please note that current members renewing their membership after 13 September will be subject to a $10.00 surcharge.

Saturday 23 August

Earlier this year the incoming Croydon Little Athletics Centre committee conducted a survey of current members to better understand the needs of athletes and their families. The results of the survey have confirmed the appropriateness of many of the Centre's past decisions, however, a number of new initiatives are being established in accordance with the survey outcomes to give athletes and their families the opportunity to maximise the fun and fitness achieved during the 2008-09 season and beyond.

A summary of the survey is available by clicking here.

The committee wishes to express a big thank you to all those members that participated in the survey. If you were not able to respond to the survey and would like to offer comment on any aspect of the Centre please talk with you club president or contact CLAC President Ross Smith.

Saturday 2nd August

The Cross Country results for WEEK 17 are now available on the Results page. This was our last run at Town Park before the Hillbrick Cup next week. With the State Cross Country championships tomorrow todays run was a fun day and everyone ran in their pajamas.

Tomorrow is the State Cross Country Championships at Drouin. For those of you who are running please get to the venue early to avoid late dashes due to getting lost on the way which is quite common. Also come along and cheer on your fellow Croydon athletes, we have a number of medal chances which need your support.

Next week is the Hillbrick Cup and this year it will be a handicap race for each distance. What this means is that the age groups that run for instance over 1000m will all race together and the first two across the line will have a place in our Hillbrick Cup Team, this will be the same for all the distances and athletes will be handicaped according to their best times oover their respective distance. There will be a BBQ and medal presentation for all of our athletes afterwards so please all come along.

Our end of season trip to Starglen Lodge has been delayed by a few weeks due to a booking conflict with the Lodge. Glenn is reorganising the dates and will let us know the new dates as soon as he can.

Next week we are running at Town Park, see you all there.

Thursday 16th July

Athletics Victoria has two categories of membership designed to foster and promote the transition of Little Athletics members through to senior athletic competition. To learn more about the low cost membership categories of Dual Athletics and Youth Athletics download the flyer or contact Glen Oakley 0412 549 025.

Croydon Seniors compete Saturdays between 1 & 4:30 pm, join now and enjoy the benefits of both Junior and Senior athletics.

Friday 16th May

Croydon athletes' results from the State Track & Field are now available under the Events page. Congratulations to all athletes that competed in the State Championships held in Bendigo on 15 & 16 March. Croydon Little Athletics Club was well represented and collected 9 medals over the weekend, well done!

Sunday 11th May

The current Centre Records, including the 2007/08 season, are now available under the events page

Saturday 19th April

Championship Day results have now been posted and can be viewed via the Results page or click here for BOYS and GIRLS.