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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY |
CONTENTS ASSOCIATION
FINALS
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Tues 26 Mar ’02
State League Final Day 1 - OP |
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ASSOCIATION FINALSIn a display at Doncaster Athletics Track that can only be described as awesome Box Hill Men’s Division 1 team took out the Association finals in very convincing form. Despite James Fildes failure in the 100m (he only came 2nd but he made up for it in the 400m) our track athletes were dominant for the entire day. But perhaps the highlight of the
day was in the Under 16 Men where at the end of the day there was a draw
and a medley relay run off. Unfortunately out best runner Michael Saunders
had already left. But phone calls were made and Michael jumped in the car
and headed back to the track, arriving as the first runner was setting up
his blocks. Sure enough Michael got the baton 20m behind and ran a
brilliant 400m leg to guide the team home to victory. The Under 18 Women also won
easily while our other Association final teams of Under 16 women and Under
18 and 14 Men (who won Venue finals with only 2 athletes) were unable to
overcome strong opposition. One point of note is all of the victors at Association finals for Open Men were from Box Hill venue confirming our status as the leading venue in Victoria. Fundraising
Update
The total raised from the Pavilion Upgrade fundraising efforts currently stands at about $17,000. With still another $23,000 to go to meet our target of $40,000, we need enthusiastic support from all members for the events planned for this year, in particular the 70th Anniversary Dinner planned for 27 July 2002. If you are able to help in any way towards the fundraising effort, please contact Westly Windsor on 9890 3653 or Graeme Olden on 9885 0890. 70
Year Dinner
To celebrate the 70th Anniversary this year of the formation of the Box Hill Athletic Club, the Club is holding a dinner on Saturday 27th July 2002. The dinner is being held at the Eastern Golf Club, 473 Doncaster Road, Doncaster, commencing at 7:00 pm. The
evening will be an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate some of the
great successes enjoyed by the Club over the past 70 years and a number of
different presentations are planned to remind us of some of the
highlights. The cost of the evening will be $50 per head which includes
hot and cold savouries, buffet style main course and dessert. If you are interested in attending or helping with organising the evening, please contact Ian Sloane on 9459 4486 or by e-mail at sloane@cybernetint.net. Put this date in your diary and start organising your table now. Registrations
are Now Due
Your registration with Athletics Victoria and also membership of the Box Hill Athletic Club falls due on 15 April 2002 (immediately following completion of the National Championships). To be eligible to compete in winter races and continue to use the Club facilities for training, you will need to organise to get yourself re-registered for the 2002 – 2003 season. A registration day is being held on Saturday 27 April in conjunction with the 5 km Handicap race, or else you may wish to simply return the attached registration form with your payment to The Registrar, PO Box 247, Box Hill VIC 3128. Despite increased registration costs with Athletics Victoria, increased costs associated with the new pavilion and the large financial commitment required from the Club to fund the Stage II Pavilion Upgrade works, the committee has only increased the membership fees by $5. All members are urged to re-register as soon as possible to help maximise the funds available to the Club to meet these upcoming works. Click here to download a registration form: Barlow
foundation
Box
Hill Athletic Club operates the Barlow Foundation as a registered project
with the Australian Sports Foundation for the purpose of supporting elite
athletes and coaches in state league interclub competition. The project
makes grants to athletes and coaches from tax-deductible donations made to
the foundation. Proposed distribution of Barlow Foundation grants for 2000/01 season · $200 Reimbursement of expenses to the leading Female State League points scorer · $200 Reimbursement of expenses to the leading Male State League points scorer ·
$200 Reimbursement of expenses to the coach whose athletes
(including both male and female) score the greatest combined total of
State League points. All
donations are tax deductible. If you have any questions about the Barlow Foundation, Colin Organ can be contacted on 9813 3597 or via email (colo@bigpond.com)
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STATE LEAGUEState
League finals are on next week and Box Hill are going for glory in both
the men’s and women’s. Our
women’s team has taken out the last two State League Premierships and
they are looking to three-peat but will face some stiff opposition from
Bayside. Stalwart performers this season have been Kerri Jorgensen, Cathy
Marshall, Georgie Power and Sarah Coghill. Our men’s team should be a good chance in the finals as due to being spread over both programs our dominance on the track will count for twice as much as normal. Marty Duke and Braden Fraser have been fighting it out at the top of the points for the men with Marty just piping Braden due to a no jump in the long jump in the second last round. National
Club Championships
Box
Hill is once again entering men’s and women’s teams in this year’s
National Club Championships to be held in Brisbane on Sunday 14 April 2002
(immediately after the National Championships). If you are planning to
travel to Brisbane to compete, please let Chris O’Connor or Val
Armstrong know whether or not you will be able to compete in the Club
Championships on the Sunday. Last year’s winning teams won a trip to Vanuatu so there is a good incentive to field a strong team. If you have not yet qualified for the Nationals, you will be allowed to run in the Nationals if you are also running in the Club Championships which provides an added incentive to make the trip to Brisbane. INTERNATIONAL NOTESAfter smashing the Club 5000 m record at the recent Melbourne Track Classic, Anna Thompson has headed off overseas to represent Australia at the World Cross Country Championships, in Ireland, followed by the World University Cross Coutnry Championships. We wish her every success in both of these events. 5
km Handicap
The
annual Box Hill Athletic Club 5 km Handicap Race is being held along the
bike tracks near the Bennettswood Bowls Club on Saturday 27 April 2002,
commencing at 1:00 pm. For those unsure of the starting location, please
meet at the Club no later than 12:30 pm to travel to the start with the
other runners. With the cross country relays at Brimbank Park on the
following weekend, it is an excellent opportunity to get in a solid run
prior to the start of the winter season. All athletes wishing to run at
Brimbank Park need to be registered to run in the relays, so the handicap
day is an excellent opportunity to get registered and organise your
entries for the winter races. A BBQ lunch will be provided back at the
Club after the race. If you are interested in running in the 5 km Handicap race, please return the attached entry form to PO Box 247, Box Hill 3128, or notify Ian
Sloane WINTER SEASON ENTRIESThe first race for winter season, the Brimbank Park Cross Country Relays is on Saturday 4 May 2002, followed by the 10 km Road Race at Flemington on 18 May 2002. Should you be planning to run at Flemington or in any of the other winter races, you will need to organise your entry at least 10 days before the event. An entry form for all of the winter races is attached which can be returned to the Club with the appropriate fee. Note that there is a discount provided for purchasing a season’s ticket which gives you entry to all winter races so it is in your interests to arrange your entries before the season starts. sunday
runs
If you are looking for a friendly group of athletes to run with on a Sunday morning, a small group has leaves from Broughton Road, Surrey Hills every Sunday morning at 8:00 am. The group is keen to encourage additional participants to run around Wattle Park and along the Gardiner’s Creek paths for as long (or short) as you would like. If you would like more information, please contact Paul Boxshall at paul.boxshall@au.faulding.com or Graeme Olden on 9885 0890, or simply turn up at 2/102 Broughton Road, Surrey Hills on a Sunday morning. BUY A BRICKThe Club’s tax deductible Barlow Fund also includes a separate building fund. With additional funds needed to be able to fund the Stage II Pavilion Upgrade (upstairs extension), donations to this fund are urgently required. Any donations made to this building fund will be directed solely towards the club room upgrade. Now is an excellent time to help the Club to fund your new club rooms and reduce your tax bill. Any donation of $100 or more will be recognised with a plaque recording your donation prominently displayed attached to a brick in the new clubrooms. Donation forms can be downloaded from the Club’s web site - http://www.boxhillathleticclub.org - or obtained from Colin Organ – phone 9813 3597.
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VIC
CHAMPS
Since the last newsletter the Open and Underage Victorian Championships have been held. No time for a run down, straight to the results:
Open Women: Kerri
Jorgensen 800m
2:08.56
4th Under 20 Women: Kate
Fietz
100m
12.96
1st Under 18 Women Kate
Fietz
100m
12.85
1st Under 16 Women Sarah
Moulton 100m
14.20
5th Under 14 Women Katherine
Winckworth 100m
13.82
2nd
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Open
Men:
Braden
Fraser 100m
11.11
9th
Mohamad
Zeed 100m
11.30
1st Under 18 Men Ned
McLeod
400m
50.80
2nd Grant
Hodges
100m
12.98
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A draft version of all time Club
rankings for men’s track events have been posted on the Club web site at http://www.boxhillathleticclub.org.
There are certain to be some errors and omissions in the lists, however they
provide a good basis for fine tuning to produce an accurate list. If you find
any mistakes or can add to the lists in any way, please contact either Dale
Bickham (bickham@deakin.edu.au) or Graeme Olden (golden@sprint.com.au).
The men’s field events lists will be added over the coming months. Val
Armstrong has volunteered to prepare similar lists for the women, so if you have
any information that may help, please pass it on to her.
This year's Presentation Night will be
held on 4 May 2002 at the Box Hill Community Arts Centre, Station Street, Box
Hill commencing at 7:00 pm. The cost for the evening is $20 for adults and $15
for Under 18's which includes a 2 course meal and soft drinks (BYO alcohol). The
guest speaker for the evening has yet to be finalised. Hopefully we will have
several premierships and many individual successes to celebrate and recognise on
the night.
Please return the reply slip attached to this newsletter to order your tickets and to reserve your table now. For more information, contact Adam Pepper on 9803 9946 or 0402 083 469 .
DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION NIGHT REPLY SLIP
Despite repeated requests not to use
lane one of the track for training, the barriers being opened across the track,
hurdles stacked in lane one and steeples moved into lane one, Club members have
continued to jog laps and run repetitions in the inside lane. As a result, the
inside lane of the track is now starting to show visible signs of wear. With the
Club heavily committed to expenditure to upgrade the club rooms, we can not
afford the considerable cost involved in having to resurface the inside lane.
The track is not due to be resurfaced again until 2006, however at the current
rate of wear, lane one will not last this long.
As a result, the barriers have been locked across lane one of the track at all times except for competitions and when hired for school carnivals. Should you wish to use lane one for special time trials then you will need to request a committee member to open the barriers for you.
Tapering. It is my favorite word at the
moment. Anytime from Christmas onwards whenever anyone catches you skipping
training it is because you are tapering. Well this season I seem to have gotten
it right with a PB at Vic Champs and four PB’s in a row in the 400H but
nationals is still three weeks away and then after that is a double decathlon I
will be competing in.
The double decathlon is 20 events in
two days. It is a full track and field program minus walks plus a 300m and a
200m Hurdles. While a normal decathlon finishes with a 1500m the double decath
finishes with a 10,000m. It is happening on 11-12 May at Aberfeldie and while no
one is actually sticking their hand up to say they will be organizing it the
entry fee is to bring along someone to help officiate the day. I think by the
time my body has recovered from that the next season will have started. Hmmm.
Maybe I could call the time off tapering?
To
submit articles either see Cameron Baker or el Presidente Graeme Olden down at
the track or email Cameron on cbak2@student..monash.edu
On Saturday 23 February 2002 a short ceremony was held to re-dedicate the Martha and Stewart Fraser Room (otherwise known as "The Officials" room). Our eldest and longest serving life member, Martha Fraser took great delight in unveiling a plaque on the door of the room to officially open the room named in honour of Martha and her late husband. Martha was delighted to meet current and past members who attended the short ceremony and enjoyed sitting outside the room and watching the Box Hill athletes perform so successfully in the Venue Finals.
ROB’S RAMBLE
Mens Interclub round 9, 12th January Division 1: 2000m
walk Graham Watt
9:36.7 Division 2: 100m
Cam Baker
12.0 Division
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Mens Interclub round 10, 23rd January Division
1: Division 2: Division 4:
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High
Jump Coach - Jill Taylor (Level 1 coach) is
interested in building a squad to train at Box Hill, male or female, any age
welcome. Anybody interested please call Jill on 9739 5967 for training times.
For many years now, Banksia Sports
Clinic has been a sponsor and supporter of the Box Hill Athletic Club. For every
Club member that attends the Banksia Sports Clinic for treatment (or for anyone
referred by a Club member), a proportion of the treatment fee is returned to the
Box Hill Athletic Club. Banksia Sports Clinic offers physiotherapy, myotherapy
and massage services so if you have a muscle injury of some description or are
just feeling a bit sore, call Jason Thompson on 9499 8887 and he will make sure
that you are well looked after.
Without sponsors like this, it would be necessary to increase fees or hold regular fundraisers just to cover the running costs of the Club. So help yourself by getting your injuries treated and support the Club at the same time.
Every year on the second Saturday in
February the small town of Temora in the middle of New South Wales gets over run
by pole vaulters for the annual Temora Golden Gift and Pole Vault Handicap. This
year a team from Box Hill made the trek via Canberra Grand Prix to make a
weekend out of it.
The highlight of the night at the
Canberra Grand prix was Nathan Deakes stopping the clock at the 10th quickest
time of all time in the 10,000m walk. Half way through he was sitting on World
Record pace and while the rest of the crowd left the stadium a small group of
supporters pulled up some chairs on the back straight and dug into the free food
supplied for the officials while cheering on Deaksy (as he is now known to me)
every lap.
But the real action for the weekend was
always going to be in Temora so after going out we left Canberra at 1:30am for
Temora. The motel owner didn’t seem too happy to be woken up at 3:00am but if
he thought that was bad, much worse was to come.
Temora had recently been subjected to
some rain so the grass track was a little soft underfoot but the locals had done
a great job of setting up after deciding to re-engineer the stands as they
didn’t think the ones from the AIS were strong enough.
In the actual competition everyone
jumped really badly except Jessica who only lost the handicap on a countback.
Nick Fox from Canberra won the handicap with 3.40m while Scott Dziubinski from
Camberra won the men’s with 4.30m and Kym Lawson won the women’s with 3.20m.
It was a strange competition as the only athletes who were really angry with
their results were the ones that won money but pole vaulting is a fickle world.
After the competition a quick dip in
the pool was the order of the day before going down to the RSL to catch up with
Ann Pike and the other organizers (and to get the second free dinner for the
weekend).
At 11:30 we left for the Westy only to
find it empty. When we finally bumped into our friend we had made from the
supermarket she told us “Of course it is empty. You don’t go there before
12:00.”
But I think the last word should go to an old man who was staying two doors down from us. We were being rowdy and he came up to us and said that he was taking a holiday before he went into hospital and that we were the best, most happiest thing he had seen in weeks and could he take our photo.
In what must have been the highlight of
the athletics season so far Marty Duke, Box Hill Athlete extraordinaire, State
League points winner, body suit wearer and all round nice guy, won the Victorian
Championships title over 200m for men. Marty, who even after running a PB still
talks down his form, seemed to be happy to be making the final in what he says
is not his preferred event. But ten minutes before the start his chances started
looking up.
With a great lane draw Marty was
warming up with the other athletes when Dave Baxter, who was surely the favorite,
ran into a shot putter while warming up. Apparently he was doing a practice
start when a large man stepped into his lane and Dave ran into him at full pace
with his head down. Dave knocked himself out was taken to hospital leaving the
race wide open.
Marty got his usual woeful start but
was starting to make ground on the others by the end of the bend. The thought
went through his head “Hey, I could medal.” Then with 20 metres to go Marty
suddenly thought “Hey, I could win this.” And he did!
Though apparently Marty was not happy
with his victory. The first state title he has ever won but it was not in his
preferred event.
While some people think that Marty
should have announced his retirement as soon as he crossed the finish line as he
is never going to run that fast again, Marty has a different idea. With his new
inflated ego Marty has decided that the best thing for him would be to put
himself on the market and see what the highest bid is.
