CLAC Training Tuesday 16th November – Parent help required. A parent present at all times is compulsory. Only listed events will take place, please do not remove other equipment from the shed or facilitate your own training area without prior consent.

U6 – U10 at 3.30 – 4.15pm with Dan.
Shot Put and Long Jump this week!

U11 – U15 …. 4.15pm warm up (facilitated by our senior athletes, Dana arrives at 4.30pm) ready for sprint work at 4.30pm, then a special treat at 5pm we have Andrew Pizzoni (aka Dad of Lucas) former Victorian and Australian High Jump Champion taking a High Jump clinic!

For this special HJ training (U11 – U15 only) to happen we need parents / volunteers to get out the High Jump equipment and set up the site to be ready for 5pm PLEASE!!! Reminder – HJ Mats are HEAVY so please ensure you have 4 adults when moving them.

A huge THANK YOU to our Training volunteers!

(Angelene Arnold)

It was wonderful to see 139 athletes at our Meet yesterday. In a brilliant effort you achieved a total of 187 Personal Bests!! Congratulations to you all, this is amazing so early in the season and we are excited to see what you have in store for us!

Results are here: Meet_Results_13_Nov_21

THANK YOU for the many new helpers who tried out something new this week, we look forward to seeing you again at our Friday Twilight Meet 5pm start, Program 3. We need VOLUNTEER FAMILIES FOR SET UP / PACK UP AT TWILIGHTS please simply turn up at 4.15 – 4.30pm to help set up, if you can’t due to work commitments etc we understand, but please stay behind for Pack Up so we can all get home at a decent time. Name badges are arriving each week so please check the changerooms for yours.

For those who have registered an athlete in the Coles State Meet #2 (Saturday 20th November, Launceston) we will be in touch shortly with your Official duty. If you are not assigned a duty please ensure you Volunteer on the day. We know CLAC members always do their part at State Meets however now we are receiving official paperwork from LATAS regarding our help, so please ensure you list your name and CLAC on the official sheets at each Event you help on. Eg: at State Meet #1 we had 40 athletes compete and 9 Officials.

If you have had your free trial you must now REGISTER, this can be done on our website Registration – Centre Info (resultshq.com.au) This also entitles you to FREE ENTRY to the COLES State Meets #1-#3 (Not Championships).

HOW CAN YOU HELP AT CLAC? We have an OPEN COMMITTEE MEETING MONDAY 15th NOVEMBER 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start in the changeroom area. We would love to see many new faces, so please come along and see how you can help. If you would like to see an Agenda please contact us.

FAQs compilation: We are also compiling a list of questions to publish a FAQs page on our website. If there was / is something that you have found confusing etc please contact us with your query to help other families that may feel the same. Our website should be the first place you go to to find answers and so we need to make this more comprehensive for you. We want your experience at CLAC to be a really simple and positive one and look forward to answering all of your queries.

TRAINING: Weather dependent – TUESDAY U6 – U10 at 3.15 – 4.15pm with Dan and U11 – U15 4.15 (own warm up for 4.30pm start) – 5.15pm with Dana at Clarence High – help appreciated. A MASSIVE THANK YOU to Jack Howe who helped out our older athletes at last weeks training on Block Starts. Jack still competes to this day and is a huge asset to have in the CLAC family, we look forward to learning more from him this Season. This week we welcome Andrew Pizzoni to help the older athletes in High Jump (weather permitting). Andrew is a wonderful High Jump coach and it’s well worth the visit when he’s about! Don’t despair younger athletes we will have some superstars coming your way too soon!.

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We look forward to seeing all of our families this Friday.

GO CLAC!

Angelene Arnold (Committee)

CLAC Meet Saturday 13th November at Clarence High.

Warm up 8.15am, first events called at 8.30am. Tiny Tots 10am.

Set up / Pack up families: Whitelaw, Wheeler and White. Please arrive for set up at 7.30am and stay for pack up. If you can’t fulfil your duty please swap with another family.

Program 2.

Uniform sales available 8.15am – 9.15am, our apology but we can not open sales before 8.15am as we simply wont be ready for you! CLAC socks have arrived – you’ll want to check them out ($15), nice and thick and very comfy. (Not compulsory uniform)

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Canteen will have Bacon & Egg Rolls on early for the brekky run and then BBQ sausages, help is appreciated as always.

We’re hoping the rain stays away!! Cancellations will be made either on Friday afternoon if the Council close the grounds or Saturday morning if rain persists.

Pop into the change rooms to collect a CLAC Manual for loads of LATas and local information.

GO CLAC!

(Angelene Arnold)

Great turnout yesterday with 153 CLAC athletes competing.

We had 1 record in the u13 Javelin. New member Marz K smashed the old U13G record of 31.17m with a massive throw of 36.85m. Well done!!

A special THANK YOU to all of the new volunteers who jumped in to help out this week, brilliant effort by you all and we’d love to see you all again!!

Results are now updated.

Congratulations to the 119 athletes who kicked off the CLAC 2021/22 Season.

It was great to see so many happy and excited faces

Thank you to all of those who helped out in so many ways and a massive THANK YOU to Will Robertson for his expert advice for our Walkers.

Meet results are now updated and can be found under the RESULTS tab…….what a fantastic start!

We look forward to seeing you all again NEXT Saturday 30th October 8.15am for warm up. Tiny Tots 10am.

Angelene Arnold

Race Walking – Coach and Compete Clinic PLUS Race Walking Officials Training.

Save the date – Saturday 6th November, Domain Athletics Centre Hobart, 4:30 pm start.

Registration is FREE for CLAC registered athletes.

For all athletes whether new to Race walking or looking to improve their technique. Coaching will be provided by experienced race walkers including former National Champions Training for Officials for the Race Walk will be provided by one of our most experienced Race Walking Judges. Rosemary Coleman will instruct in the details of judging the racewalk at Little Athletics – what do those paddles mean, when do we warn, when do we disqualify.

All your questions will be answered.

Following training, there will be an LATas sanctioned competition for U9-U15 athletes.

The Walks Coach & Compete Clinic will conclude by 6:00 pm.

Athletes and those seeking Officials training are asked to pre-register for the clinic.

Registrations will open Monday 25th October.