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Choose you own event week Best of luck to all of our Littles competing at Region Track and Field Carnivals next weekend! For our juniors not competing at Regions this Saturday is choose your own event day, scroll down below for full information and a copy of the program to choose your own event! WeContinue reading “Weekly Newsletter – February 2”

Personal Bests With only a few rounds left of our summer season for both Senior and Littles, we are seeing more and more awesome results every week! Last weekend we saw Littles and Seniors go back to their summer seasons, as well as the annual Two Bays Trail Run event which saw a lot ofContinue reading “Weekly Newsletter – January 19”

Safety Measures Welcome back everyone after a few weeks off! This week marks our official return to both Seniors and Little Athletics, and in case you missed it there was some important COVID19 information in last week’s email which is repeated below. It is incredibly important as we all begin to get back to theContinue reading “Weekly Newsletter – January 12”

Welcome back! Welcome back everyone after a few weeks off! I hope that everyone has had, or continues to have an absolutely wonderful time with their families and friends over the holiday break. We are excited and ready to jump back into athletics when the time rolls around next Saturday. It is incredibly important asContinue reading “Weekly Newsletter – January 5”

Racing! Check out some of the awesome photography from the last week of racing and our Club vs Club day! This week our seniors will be competing across two venues and we will be using our Powerplay to maximise ladder points, best of luck to all competing this weekend! Littles! There are quite a fewContinue reading “Weekly Newsletter – December 15”

Yarra Ranges Athletics athletes enjoyed some sunshine interspersed with drizzle and cold winds on Saturday morning. The weather did not deter the smiles on the 150+ athletes who turned up at Morrison Reserve for a fun morning of athletics. With the club combined events championships only a week away, athletes made the most of theContinue reading “Weekly Newsletter – December 8”

Vic Milers The spiritual “Home of PBs,” Hagenaeur Reserve in Box Hill put on quite the show last Thursday with the first meet of Vic Milers Club. For the uninitiated, VMC run meets in the evening during the summer season occasionally, and there is no other place to try and knock off a PB! WithContinue reading “Weekly Newsletter – December 1”

Last Saturday The sun was finally shining at Morrison Reserve on Saturday morning. Perfect conditions for a fun morning of athletics. With so many new members and trialling members the calm, warm weather enabled a full program of events to be completed. Athletes even managed to have some relay fun. Undoubtedly the highlight of theContinue reading “Weekly Newsletter – November 24”

Little Athletics Round 2 Week two of Little Athletics was a steeplechase, with a number of obstacles requiring clearing before we could get underway. Power outages, unfriendly weather and some key parent helpers unavailable, however the committee, parents and most importantly the athletes all came together and we managed to give the kids a fewContinue reading “Weekly Newsletter – November 17”

Little Athletics is back! Wow! We are finally back! It was an incredibly exciting weekend at YRA with our very first round of LAV for the 21/22 season, and the atmosphere was absolutely unreal. Season 2021/2022 kicked off on Saturday with 121 Little Athletes taking to the track on a sunny, but humid morning onContinue reading “Weekly Newsletter – November 10”