CLAC needs more Coaches!

Would you like to step up and get yourself qualified as a Level 1 Coach?

If so please see the attached information HERE. LATAS has greatly subsidised this Course and it takes place in Hobart on the 6th of December. CLAC is willing to cover the Course Cost for the first 4 parents / guardians that wish to become involved.

Each week we see heaps of CLAC Volunteers with loads of potential in this area. This is a great opportunity to further your knowledge and gain accreditation at no cost to you…..please give it some serious thought and message us if you are interested as soon as possible, as places are limited.

Email: president.clac.ltas@gmail.com

Angelene Arnold

Committee

Congratulations on a wonderful first day back at CLAC!

We had 194 PBs (Personal Best performances) all up (boys 102 and girls 92) which is outstanding and 1 local record, from 148 competing athletes!

Congratulations to Blake H for breaking the U15B 200m record that has stood for 11 years. Old record 25.3, new record 25.1

THANK YOU to all our volunteers, old and new. Please advise our announcer in the tower anytime you require help at Events, either technical or just more hands.

A reminder to please not cross the throws area on the lower arena between the Discus and Javelin. We have athletes potentially throwing mid 30m-40m in both of these Events which does not leave much space for people to cross safely. PLEASE GO AROUND THE BACK OF THE DISCUS CAGE if you must cross here at all.

Reminder: we have a Twilight this FRIDAY (20th November) due to the LATAS Southern All State comp on Saturday. Volunteers to set up from 4.15 for a 5pm start would be fantastic. BBQ sausages will be available for dinner.

Angelene Arnold

Committee

We return to normal programming this week.  And we are back to Program 1, however on a different rotation.

0815 warm-up for a 0830 start on Saturday.

Tiny Tots Program to begin at 1000, with the possibility of a run on the track first up, but event progress will determine that.

Canteen and Uniform: There will be normal sales of uniform items this weekend from 0830-0930. The Canteen will be open for the duration of the meeting. Cooking volunteers are requested for making egg and bacon rolls and then later sausages.

*EFTPOS available for both Canteen and Uniform Sales, there is a $5 minimum charge on the EFTPOS. 

We only have one EFTPOS terminal, so be patient as the canteen and uniform desk will be sharing it, so consider cash only for the canteen until 0930.

COVID Social Distancing and Sanitizer: Please remember to follow COVID-19 safe practices, stay 1.5m apart from non-family members, regularly sanitize your hands.  All visitors (those not registered or not normally living with a CLAC athlete) must sign in for contact tracking purposes.

Age Group Coordinators, a reminder to get athletes using the hand sanitizer before each event, and use the sanitizing spray on all hand-held equipment after each use! This includes, spikes, flags, tapes etc as well as shots, discuss, javelins etc.

The Southern All States are open: At the Domain Saturday on 21 November, this State Meet is open to all CLAC registered athletes, but pre-registration is essential.  Remember if your athlete(s) attends it is an expectation that a parent/guardian will assist in a track or field duty or two to make sure the events run on time.  These duties are normally given to our Centre and then we allocate internally to families.

Tiny Tots: A reminder that the Tiny Tots program is not offered on our twilight Meets. We are still requesting a volunteer or two to assist in running these events during our Saturday Meets, so if you have capacity please consider helping.  Older athletes may wish to consider assisting for the 30-45 minute program.

Set-up /Pack-up Duty: The following families are requested to assist on setup/pack up this weekend. Arrive at 7:45 please to assist in this task. 

 Chivers, Claxton, Cook, D’Silva, Davies

If you are not available please let us know ASAP so we can ask another family to assist, or you can swap amongst your friends.

Proof of Age: Some athletes still require a POA check, please bring a copy of a birth certificate/passport or ID with DOB on it so it can be crossed off.

Training: We have the ground booked for training most Tuesdays from 4:30pm – 5:30pm for the remainder of the season.  However we don’t have a coach, so at the moment we can’t conduct training.  If you are able to assist us, please have a discussion with a committee member!  We hope to get this going soon and ideally we’d like to get previous athletes back for some of these sessions so our juniors can get tips from athletes competing at seniors.

Look forward to seeing you all at “home”.

Chris Kennedy

President

Jemima G did it!!!! She has achieved 3 consecutive Outside Records over our first 3 Meets…..not only is that outstanding but this week she smashed the U11G Long Jump Outside Record, old Record 4.06, New Record a massive 4.42! Congratulations.

Palepa L has also added to the very talented U11G group with a new Discus Record, Old Record 23.65, New Outside Record a huge throw of 27.85! Well Done.

All results have been updated and can be found HERE.

Outside Records have also been updated to 08Nov20.

From this week we will now look ahead to Local Records as per your Event Sheets.

On Sunday our Girls achieved 32 qualifiers (“Q” – 2 qualifiers are required to be able to compete at this event at the Individual State Championships in March 2021) and our boys 27, there were heaps of PBs (Personal Best time, throw or jump for the season so far) too – well done to all of our amazing athletes, you are getting better each week

Thank you for all of your enthusiasm for our Meets at the Domain, and a HUGE THANK YOU to Hobart Districts Little Athletics Centre for very generously allowing us to use their equipment while up there.

This Saturday we will finally be back home at Clarence High, start is 8.20am for Warm up with an 8.30am start. Tiny Totts will now start at 10am.

There will be NO TRAINING on TUESDAY 10TH NOVEMBER due to no coaches appointed yet. At the moment we do not have anyone to take training, if you can help out please let us know. We have the facilities booked for Tuesdays from 4pm, we just need people available to help this to take place. Many of our regular volunteers are unavailable, so a few new faces would be fantastic. Training is not compulsory for Little Athletics however it certainly helps the kids to develop and / or work on Events that they find difficult etc, however it can not go ahead until we have some parents able to run it.

ATHLETES MUST BE REGISTERED BY FRIDAY 13TH NOVEMBER (this Friday). REGISTER NOW

See you all at home 🙂

Angelene Arnold

Committee

Overview: We’ve had a pretty good start to the season, with some Outside records already being set.  Numbers last Sunday were as big as any meeting last season which is a great sign that our Centre is growing stronger. We welcome all our new athletes and families; it was wonderful to see so many smiling faces.

Thank you to those families who arrived ready to help set up and pack up. Due to several issues, primarily not being at our own grounds and borrowing equipment, with thanks to Hobart Districts, and the Domain being heavily booked for training on Sundays, set up / pack up has been fairly chaotic.  Next week Hobart Districts will be holding a Meet directly after us, so pack-up will be easy, but we will have a few carloads of equipment to take back to Clarence after our meeting, so,  volunteers will be required, please!

Our uniform stock has been selling quick. We’ve run out of some sizes already, so a re-order is underway. We’ll update you when this arrives. Also, when we are back at Clarence High we will have a full range of the old uniform too.

This Sunday: As our next Domain Sunday meeting will include sprint hurdles for all ages we require lots of parent help, placing hurdles in the right spots and changing them to the right height for age groups. We have been prewarned that quite a few of our regular volunteers will be unavailable due to several other sporting events. Therefore, we need you to help out, even if you haven’t done so before. It is easy and there will always be experienced people around more than happy to head you in the right direction.

Supervision/Safety: Remember a strict condition of our insurance is you cannot drop kids and leave; there must always be a guardian present when kids are at Little Athletics. Significant problems have arisen in some age groups already, particularly when there is nobody to assist in your child’s events or there is an injury.

If not competing, kids must remain outside the field arena, they are not allowed to play on high jump mats, climb on shelter frames near long jump pits, they cannot be climbing fences etc. We have already had one broken arm from this, and we do not want anymore, it is for your children’s and everyone else’s safety.  It’s also important to make sure kids are inside the venue fences, a couple were fished out from the car park last week and the week before some boys were doing rolly-Polly’s down the hill behind the sheds where a significant head injury occurred.

Crossing the track – It is important for everyone to be alert when crossing the track. Quite like road safety, please stop, look left, look right before crossing.   We understand it is quite congested competing at the Domain and we look forward to having more open space for siblings back at Clarence High.  400’s caused issues last week with older athletes taking off on blocks at considerable speed on the busy bend.  Please take extra care to be considerate, we would hate to see a little one knocked over, or an athlete injured.

No Canteen or Uniform shop next week: Due to key volunteers being unavailable, there is no canteen or uniform shop this week. The next opportunity to buy uniform items will be Saturday the 14^th back at Clarence High School.  It will be a good idea to bring a lunch box and plenty to drink.

Uniforms: A reminder that our uniform is our club top (new or old version), and black shorts without logos (where possible). You must have our club top on to compete when you are a registered athlete.  Those who are not registered, in the come/try phase, do not have to purchase a top to try out.  Some athletes wore ¾/full leggings or yoga type pants last week, unfortunately, these are strictly not permitted when competing.

Registrations: As above, the athletes can compete in 2 Meets to come & try.  However, ALL athletes must be registered by the 14^th November 2020, so there is one Meet left for the come/try phase.  We ask that all athletes intending to complete the season to be registered by Friday 13^th of November!

Proof of Age (POA): As part of our affiliation requirements, new athletes must have their POA verified by their club, this can be done by uploading a scan or photo of an ID document through the resultsHQ portal (the registration portal) or you can bring a copy of the birth certificate/passport etc to be viewed.  An email will be forwarded to those who have not yet had the POA verified and information about this will be given to Age Group Coordinators and a list at the front gate.

Name Badges: Names badges have started to arrive, these will be distributed via the Age Group Coordinators.  Remember they take between 2-3 weeks after registration to arrive, last season this occasionally took 5 weeks!  They are done by LTAS directly, so deliveries are only available when we get them, these are out of our control.  Masking tape will be available at each Meet indefinitely.

Tiny Totts: The ever-exciting Tiny Tott program has commenced and the feedback has been good.  A parent volunteer or two to help organise the Tiny Totts program would be great!  It is not hard, just plenty of jumping and body movements – think about giving it a go! We are starting with basics and will develop through the season to do things more structured events, but clearly, we are not there yet. 

Our Tiny Tots program is for 3 and 4-year-olds only., Those who are currently 2 are unable to participate until they have their 3^rd birthday and must be born in 2017! Those turning 3 in 2021 cannot be in our program this season. There is, however, a Toddlers race for the little ones to shine in the spotlight – and don’t they just love it!

COVID Safety: Reminder to keep socially distanced at all times Household groups can sit close, but other household members should maintain at least the 1.5M gap.  Hand sanitizer is available, and we ask that you regularly use it.

There are wipes and spray sanitizer available for cleaning equipment, this is being done pre and post groups using the gear and our athletes are sanitising hands before throws (little tip, sanitise early so hands are dry when throwing!)

Signing into our meetings is not necessary if the registered athlete lives with the guardian/parent who attends, all visitors, other club athletes, grandparents etc must sign in for our requirements to comply with COVID Safety. If we do have close contact during the season, we will need to contact anyone who attended our meetings in the previous 14 days, so we must have contact details of everyone who attends. Remember we have to stick to our COVID safety plan.  Deliberate breaches could cost us the season.

Photos: Please do not post photos which include other children to social media unless you have expressed permission from the relevant family.  It is possible some athletes have significant concerns about their protection. If in doubt, don’t post! As always, anyone who wishes to have a photo taken off our Facebook page or website, simply let us know.

Set Up next week: The following families are assigned Set-up and pack up this week. Brown, Budgeon, Butters & Carson,

Please let us know if you can’t assist so we can swap you for another family.

Reminder for Volunteers – Gear Transporters: We will need help taking our gear back to Clarence, so anyone with a wagon, ute, the trailer is asked to volunteer to return our stuff, we expect to clear about 3 pm next week and everyone volunteering will be clear by 3:30 going smoothly… Please do not rely on the committee to do all the heavy lifting (literally)!

I apologise for such a huge amount of information, but each of these points is vitally important. THANK YOU to those who choose to read this in full, maybe you can help your friends that may not have ??

See you on Sunday!

Chris Kennedy

President

MEET 2: Sunday 1st November at Domain Athletics Centre start 11am.

If you have not registered please SIGN IN UPON ENTRY – let us know if this is your 2nd trial. VISITING ATHLETES please sign in.

All registrations can be done HERE

We will still have masking tape and pens ready but it’s a lot quicker if your name tag and age group is done at home.

Set up / Pack up duty list:

***Atkinson, Auksorius, Boscoe, Brodribb and Briers***

Please meet the CLAC Committee at the Domain Track 40 minutes prior to our start to help retrieve equipment from containers and set up all Event sites including track gates etc. If you have not done this duty before please just let us know and we can give you jobs to do. It is also important that you help pack all the equipment away at the end of the Meet too. Please ask how if you are unsure as we want to be make sure that Hobart Districts equipment is correctly placed back in containers. If all families listed (one member only required) turn up, this should be light work for us all and you won’t be asked for a number of weeks! If you can not do the duty this week please swap with someone you know. If you don’t know anyone yet, please advise us asap.

This Sunday is PROGRAM 2, please note events may change and/or run in a different order so please do not plan on only turning up for a favourite event as you may be disappointed.

TINY TOTS program will start at 12.15pm.

We will fire up the BBQ & have sausages for sale over lunch time. If anyone is able to help – we really need you!!! Please just come and take over.

UNIFORM will be available for sale from 10.30 – 12noon. This will be the last time to buy uniform until we get back to Clarence High on 14th November. EFTPOS and Cash.

AS ALWAYS PLEASE FOLLOW OUR COVID SAFE PLAN AND IF YOU FEEL UNWELL PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND.

RACE WALKS INFO: Tomorrow we will start our Race Walks for the first time this Season. Walks are a very technical event and we want all our athletes to learn good habits early. As with all Events, athletes can be disqualified in Walks for the wrong technique. Judges will be at points around the track giving warnings and communicating with athletes, please let your athlete know to listen out for this. This is not to be received as criticism, it is simply a part of the event, to advise what athlete is being warned about (technique etc). Of course there will be coaching for our new athletes, as we are aware they need to learn, however disqualification will be given if the athlete runs, same as if a foul was listed in Long Jump or an incorrect throwing technique etc. This ensures the athlete does not form habits that will end up in fouls or disqualification at State Events. We want to set our CLAC athletes up for success. The athlete can finish the race.

See some handy Race Walk information HERE, please ignore the athlete age details.

On that note, we are VERY EXCITED to announce that graduated CLAC athlete WILL ROBERTSON will be attending to help out our new Race Walkers. Will is the Tasmanian Little Athletics State and CLAC record holder for U14 and U15 1500m Walk. He is the U17 National Champion and Open State Champion for the 5000m Walk. Will also represented Australia at the Oceania Championships in 2019. We are extremely proud of him!

You can watch Will on Youtube HERE !! We look forward to welcoming Will back to CLAC and thank him greatly for his time.

GO CLAC!

Angelene (CLAC Committee)