Knox Little Athletics Centre Inc.

Knox little Athletics is pleased to announce launch of the Knox LAC Open Day on the 22nd January 2022.

Venue: Knox Park Sporting Complex, Bunjil Way, Knoxfield

Registration: Online Only — www.klac23.org.au/openday
Entry Fee: $8.00 per event or 4 events for $30 (incl processing fee)
Entries close: Thursday 13th January 2022 (11:59pm)
NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE PERMITTED
Once entry is accepted NO changes are possible
NO REFUNDS WILL BE PROCESSED

Enquiries: Chris McKissack — E-mail: records@klac23.org.au

Each athlete may progress ONE AGE GROUP IN ONE EVENT ONLY, if preferred event is not offered in correct age group, only if event is a standard event for their Age Group.
Under 15/16s will compete as one age group
Knox LAC reserves the right to cancel or postpone the entire event due to extreme weather conditions. Individual events may be cancelled due to insufficient entries.

Duty is compulsory for Parents of competing Knox LAC athletes.

Heats/Finals: Athletes will be placed in straight finals for track events up to the maximum entries as per the table below. Where there are more entries received a series of Timed Finals will be used to determine the overall placing of athletes. i.e., Heats and Finals will not be conducted.
Athletes will be randomly placed in finals in those events conducted as Timed Finals. The allocation of lanes for Timed Finals will also be random.
Marshalling: All athletes MUST report directly to the event area 15 minutes prior to the scheduled starting time of the event. Track events take priority—if you have a clash between a track and a field event, report to the field event and advise of the

For all the conditions and entry information you can download the flyer below

Available Events

David K (Shotput and Discus Coach) has advised that he is unavailable this week. Therefore his coaching sessions on Monday 6th December (Discus/Jav) and Wednesday 8th (Shot put) December will not run.

David will be back at the track on Monday 13th December.

For those that train with Mike D for throws – these sessions will still go ahead.

LAVIC issued this afternoon (3 December 2021) to all centres updated Covid Safety Protocols to be implemented from today.

The updated protocols can be found on the LAVic website here:

https://lavic.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/LAVic-Victoria-COVID-19-Protocols-v6.6tf-03.12.21-2.pdf

A reminder to all families – LAVic have set the following requirements within the protocols:

People must:
– Stay away from Little Athletics activities if they are feeling unwell;
– Get tested and remain at home until their symptoms resolve;
– Seek medical assistance as required.
– CSOs will advise those attending sanctioned competition & training activities to go home and get tested that if they have cold or flu symptoms
– Parents/guardians are responsible for supervising children at sanctioned training activities. The presence of supervising parents/guardians are required for the safe conduct of sanctioned Little Athletics activities.
Please do not drop off your child off and leave. A parent/guardian must be in attendance at all little athletic activities.

It is a requirement of LAVic that all athletes competing must wear the correct uniform. This includes our club uniforms at our centre competition each week. Unless an athlete is trying out, or has registered but does not yet have their club top, they must be in uniform.

This means all registered athletes should be wearing black shorts with their club (not centre) top at our weekly competition. Please ensure your child is in their correct club uniform. This means athletes cannot wear jumpers / hoodies or other tops over the club top and competition name patch while competing in an event.

Please do not wear the Knox Centre uniform top for weekly competition. This is reserved for our athletes that compete at events such as regional carnivals and State Championships events.

Competition Name Patches
Athletes must also be wearing their competition name patch. This is the only way we can identify them to allow their results to be placed into the computer system and uploaded to results HQ.

Athletes not wearing name patches will not be permitted to compete.

If you have forgotten your patch or lost it, new patches can be bought for a gold coin donation from our registrar in the computer room in the grandstand. If you need a subsequent patch it will cost $5 per patch. Money collected for new patches is donated to the Royal Children’s Hospital Appeal at the end of the season.

Coles Badges
All athletes tops must have Coles Badge sewn (not pinned) to the top right hand corner of the top. If you child’s top does not have Coles badge on it please see your club to get one.

We are aware of some storms heading over the bay this afternoon and are monitoring the activity.

There is currently a storm warning for Melbourne for strong winds, large hail and heavy rain fall.

We have been advised by Alan that there will be no high jump training tonight.

Other event training will proceed, however please follow any directions given should storms pass over.

We will keep an eye on the weather radar and monitor the storm activity in the area.