Yearly Archives: 2016

2016 Winter Bulletin No. 2

April 11, 2016

JELLS PARK RELAYS ON THIS SATURDAY The XCR’16 season will commence this Saturday, April 16, with the traditional Jells Park cross country relays. Please let us know about your availability for this popular event. We plan to enter teams in all age groups. Events start at 12:30pm (juniors at 1:00pm). To compete in this event […]

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Saturday 9 April 2016 – 5 km Handicap

April 9, 2016

Box Hill AC has run this event now for 25 years and inevitably someone runs the Bennettswood course a lot quicker than predicted. That happened again this year.  However, of more interest was the fact that we had four runners who bettered 16 minutes which is noteworthy.  I don’t think that this has occurred previously […]

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2016 Winter Bulletin No. 1

April 5, 2016

JELLS PARK RELAYS ON SATURDAY WEEK The XCR’16 season will commence with the traditional Jells Park cross country relays. Please let us know about your availability for this popular event. We plan to enter teams in all age groups. To compete in this event you must be registered for the new 2016/17 athletics season. Register […]

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2015-2016 Summer Bulletin No. 27

March 29, 2016

UPCOMING EVENTS? March 31-April 3, Australian Championships, Sydney Saturday, April 9, Club 5k handicap, Gardiner’s Creek Saturday, April 16, XCR’16 round 1, Jells Park Relays   GOOD LUCK AT NATIONALS! Good luck to all the Box Hill athletes competing at the Australian Track and Field Championships this weekend. Let’s hope for some great results.   […]

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2015-2016 Summer Bulletin No. 26

March 22, 2016

VICTORIAN RUNNING NETWORK EVENT AT BOX HILL ON WEDNESDAY Be aware that there is a running event at Box Hill on Wednesday night from 7:00pm. We apologise for any inconvenience to those who usually use the track on a Wednesday evening. For those wishing to run in a 3000m event, this series of graded 3000m […]

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2015-2016 Summer Bulletin No. 25

March 14, 2016

SARAH WINS GOLD AT JUNIOR NATIONALS Congratulations to all the Box Hill athletes who competed so well at the national junior track and field championships in Perth. There were many outstanding performances. Sarah Billings won an exciting U20 800m to take the national title. Tom Selwood, Matt Harcourt and Dalton Di Medio all won silver […]

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2015-2016 Summer Bulletin No. 24

March 7, 2016

RHYS AND NATHAN IN FORM AT MELBOURNE WORLD CHALLENGE Congratulations to Adelaide based Box Hill member, Rhys Jones, who has been in stunning form recently. After recording a 3.5 second PB in Adelaide two weeks ago, Rhys knocked another 2 seconds off his 1500m time, to record 3:42.42 in the Melbourne World Challenge event on […]

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2015-2016 Summer Bulletin No. 23

February 29, 2016

SARAH QUALIFIES FOR THE WORLD JUNIORS! Congratulations to Sarah Billings who ran a brilliant PB of 2:05.77 in the 800m at the junior AV knockout finals on the weekend to qualify for the world junior championships. Sarah joins Georgia Hansen who has already qualified for this same event. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR STATE CHAMPIONS Congratulations to […]

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2015-2016 Summer Bulletin No. 22

February 23, 2016

VICTORIAN MULTI EVENT CHAMPIONSHIPS Congratulations to Matt Harcourt, David McConnell and Karen Carah who won state titles at the Victorian Multi-Event championships on the weekend. Kate Boulter and Will Seton won silver medals while Josiah Becker, Emily Butler, Madeline Lawson and Sam McDonald also performed well. Women’s Open Heptathlon Madeline Lawson        5th        4236 points Women’s […]

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2015-2016 Summer Bulletin No. 21

February 16, 2016

KATHRYN QUALIFIES FOR WORLD JUNIORS AS BOX HILL GRABS 13 GOLDS Box Hill athletes performed brilliantly, winning 13 gold, 7 silver and 7 bronze medals at the Victorian junior track and field championships at Lakeside Stadium last weekend. One of the highlights of the championships was the effort of Kathryn Brooks who won the under […]

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