Athletics Wollongong have celebrated 63 years of serving the greater Illawarra in the sport.
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To celebrate the occasion our club's meet of that night featured some "old time" events in conjunction some of our regular ones. Official events such as the 75-yard and mile event were eagerly contested and novelty events such as the egg and spoon race and tug-o-war, were even more competitively contested, to the point where some of the older guys had as many as seven tug-o-war rounds just to prove a point.
The celebration was a poignant reminder of how our club is not only family focused but provides pathways for the keen athlete to achieve and improve and perform well at higher level competition if they so desire.
On November 27 the Illawong club in Southern Sydney hosted their second High Velocity meet at the Barden Ridge complex.
These meets are designed to allow athletes of similar abilities to compete against each other. The Illawong Summer Series is proving to be highly popular as more and more athletes are becoming aware of this format and are keen to participate in it. Of the Athletics Wollongong athletes that attended we had the following results:
Men's 100m: 4th, Sam Zustovich (10.62s), 12th, Mitchell O'Neill (10.85s), then Brock Scrivener (11.00s), Calem Brown (11.21s), James McPaul (11.39s), Michael Doodson (12.53s).
Women's 100m: 14th Holly Rea (12.32s), then Kailee Moore (12.53s). Men's 200m: 5th Mitchell O'Neill (22.00s), James McPaul (23.13s).
Women's 200m: Scarlett Dunne (29.40s). Men's 400m: 1st James McPaul (49.65), 9th Callum Rann (52.14s).
Women's 400m, 12th Grace Costabile 1:03.50s.
Men's High Jump: 9th Liam Halloran (1.65m), 13th Mackay Jones (1.45m)
The list of club records continues to tumble.
At the November 24 meet, Olivia Sivills improved the U18 Mile mark by six seconds, with her time of 5:38.89s.
And William Tyler claimed the 60-69 long jump, edging by Barry McClelland's 2008 mark by 5cm and at 3.79m.
On December 1, Imogene Anderson claimed the inaugural U12s 80m Hurdle record with a time of 14.75s.
Aaron de Jager set 19.56s in the 30-39 Men's 110m.
New member Carolyn Hunt in the 70-79 women set new records in the 100m, 20.22s, javelin 17.33m and the long Jump with 2.83m.
Both Delta Amidzovski (U16) and Aaron de Jager (30-39) men each ran 12.32s in the 100m and claimed the U16 and 30-39 records.
Delta also collected the U16 90m Hurdle record with a 12.70s which gives her an awesome chance of shaking up the 90m hurdle field at the NSW All Schools
Tia Hatchman marked her club debut in the Women's U20s 100m in 13.02s, smashing the previous record by 0.39s Simon Harmey in the Men's 60-69 100m lowered the previous record by 0.06s to 14.95s, Rodney Tebbutt in the Men's 50-59s shrunk the 100m record by 0.33s to 13.08s, and then hurled his way into history with an enormous javelin throw of 49.87m, smashing the previous record by 6.22m.
Finally, in the Women's 100m hurdles, the ever improving Kailee Moore slashed her own record by 0.23s to 14.47s with Delta Amidzovski keeping her company zipping along in 14.47s.
