Knox Little Athletics Centre Inc.

We’re pleased to announce that Training “Officially” starts this week! We thank you once again for your patience, our training sessions will be spread over a variety of locations with our official training venues Croydon Track & St Joseph’s College (Ferntree Gully). With some of our coaches training out of other unofficial knox training venues.

Please ensure if you go to any training this season that you contact the Coach and confirm the details of their training and your attendance. For full details of Coaching in 2024-25 please visit the Coaching page.

Coaching Sessions for Season 2024-25
St Josephs training starts from Monday 30th September
Croydon training starts from Wednesday 2nd October

*Running training with Mike K at Croydon will start Wednesday 16th October.

Please note training at St Joseph’s College begins Monday 30th September, Croydon training begins this Wednesday 2nd October. For those attending any training session at St Joseph’s College, as part of our agreement you must only park in at Gate A (see below), if you park anywhere else closer to the track we will immediately lose access to St Joseph’s as a training venue.

Relays 2024-25

The first and one of the most exciting events in the Track & Field season is Relays. For U9 – U17 athletes relays present a unique opportunity for athletes to compete as part of a team. The Centre has a proud and successful history of competition in Relays and will offer Knox athletes the opportunity to join a relay squad in the Summer Track & Field season. For all information regarding Relays please visit the Relay page.

Key Dates for Relays 2024-25
1) Internal Relay Competition at Ringwood Sunday 10th November, 2024
2) Region Relay Carnival at Box Hill Sat 16th November 2024
3) State Relay Championship at Whittlesea City LAC (Meadowglen) Sat 14th December 2024

The Relay Enrolment form for 2024-2025 is now an online form, please complete the form now if you want your athlete/s to participate in the Relay Competitions. There is a much shorter lead up to Relays this season, please ensure if you’re interested to get in touch with your Relay Coach ASAP.

Relay training will be held at Croydon starting from Sunday 6th October, please look at the Relay Page for more information or get in contact your Relay Coach.

This is a reminder that tomorrow – Saturday 22nd September – is our Chief Officials Training Day and Working Bee at Ringwood.

Sunday 22nd September
9am – 10.30am – Chief Officials Training (Compulsory for all Chiefs)
10.30am – 12pm – Working Bee
Venue: Ringwood Little Athletics Centre (11-13 Sylvia Grove, Ringwood, VIC, Australia, Victoria)

The Knox Executive Committee believe a Working Bee at Ringwood is a perfect way of saying an early thank you to Ringwood Little Athletics Centre for hosting us whilst the Knox Track is being redeveloped.

Chief Officials training will begin at 9am 
Chiefs will be required to sign in, provide a copy of your WWC and provide a size for your Chief officials top if you need one.

If you are a chief this year and still need to apply for the WWC you can head to the WWC website here – https://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/

Working Bee will begin at 10.30am
Whilst there is no Working Bee levy refund we would appreciate all the help we can get to thank Ringwood LAC and help prepare the Ringwood track for the upcoming Track & Field Season 2024-25

Have you registered for the Track and Field Season yet?
If you haven’t yet registered for the season yet and you want to compete on Week 1 Saturday 5th October, you will need to register by Wednesday 2nd October so that we can complete to admin and print name patches in time. Please register ASAP so you don’t miss out one week 1 of competition. Register here!

We are so excited to announce that registrations for Season 2024-2025 will open today, Monday 9th September at 4pm. Register here via Little Athletics Victoria “Membership” page.

With our track still under re-development, we will be joining in with Ringwood until our track has been completed, with competitions starting Saturday October 5th.

This season will be different to any other that we have experienced but one thing for sure is that it will be great to see new and familiar faces having fun whilst taking part in all that Little Athletics has to offer.

We are finalising all remaining details about this Summer Track & Field Season 2024-25 please be patient with us and keep an eye on the website & Social Media for further information.

Knox Little Athletics Centre invites all Knox athletes and families to the KLAC Cross Country Presentation Evening this Saturday 17th August, 2024.

Event Details:
When: Saturday 17th August, 2024
Where: Carrington Park Leisure Centre (20 Oconnor Rd, Knoxfield)
Time: 5.00pm Sharp to approx 6.30pm
BYO Food and Drinks

Awards will be presented for;
-Handicap Day
-Championship Day
-Best in Age and Achievement Awards
-Best Overall
-Perpetual Trophies
-Best Club

Awards only for those athletes who meet the Award Criteria incuding 50% attendance and minumum duties completed throughout the Cross Country Season.

There is no need to RSVP.

Well it has been a couple of months since the last track update.

We are at an exciting time for the rebuild – the track is starting to take shape.

1. Lights and towers have been delivered, assembled and erected.
2. Inside drain concrete infield pour is complete
3. Footpath and outer kerb preparation is well underway and will be poured over the next week or so
4. Fencing has started along sand jump pit areas
5. New PA system is being installed.

There is still a long way to go and with the recent rains it has slowed down the progress a little, but hopefully with some warmer weather coming – and Spring is not far away – we have been advised that the completion of the project remains on track.

Track and Field Season 24-25

Thank you to all those families that responded to the survey. There was a clear majority of responses that preferred continue competing on a Saturday morning. The Executive Committee has reached out to Ringwood LAC and is working with the Ringwood committee on joining in with their program until our track is reopened.

The Centre will be making announcements on the season in the next few weeks as we finalise our competition calendar.

Track and Field Training.

The committee is still working with council on a training venue for the summer season. We reached out to a number venues (including Maroondah Council for the use of Croydon Track) as soon the summer use application period opened at the start of August. This does mean that our application is in with other regular users and we may not have exclusive use for Knox LAC during our training times.

Despite various avenues of advocacy through our Local Councilors and support from LAVic and we were not able to expedite this process over the winter to secure a venue earlier. We are also looking at alternative venues around that will support our training program to get some preseason training underway.

We will be providing an updated coaching timetable and training locations once we have approval to use venues and training sessions from our coaches.

We do understand that people are looking for information on the season and what is happening. Rest assured the committee is working hard to finalise the season details and provide our members with complete package of information. Please be patient – the season will be different but its an exciting time for our center.