Week 7, 2023-24

Congratulations to all our South Barwon athletes who competed for Geelong at the Regional Relay Carnival last weekend. It great to see teams supporting each other and encouraging each other to run their hardest around the track at Melton Little Athletics Centre.

This week, we’re back at Landy Field and back to program 1. The long range weather forecasts suggests that there might be thunderstorms on Saturday morning, but we all know how quickly things can change, so keep an eye on the Geelong Little Athletics Facebook page for any last-minute updates.

The events for program 1 can be found below.

Athlete of the Week

Our South Barwon Little Athlete of the week for Week 6 of competition was Harry R (U8B). Harry showed great resilience, recovering from a fall on the hurdles to keep competing and get a personal best of 2.65m on Long Jump.

Each week we’ll pick out an Athlete of the Week, based on effort and attitude, who will receive a $20 Rebel Sport Gift Voucher.

Uniform

From this week onwards, could families requiring uniform let us know by Facebook message or email ahead of Saturday. As most of our athletes have their uniforms now, we won’t be bringing all of our stock to Landy Field each week.

Volunteers

Many thanks to the families who have signed up for volunteer duties over the past couple of weeks. We’ve still got some spots on the calendar to be filled before Christmas – every family should have done at least two duties by this date. If you haven’t already, please come by the South Barwon area this Saturday and add your name to the whiteboard. We will soon be allocating families who have not yet done a duty to the remaining spots.

This week’s general volunteers are: