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St
Helens Sutton Athletic Club
December 2003
News
The Holiday
Training at the Sports
Centre:
The final pre-Christmas
training session at the Sports Centre and track will
take place on Thursday 18 December
2003
. The first training session of
the
New Year will take place on Tuesday 6
January 2004 .
Fixtures taking place while the Sports Centre
is closed over the holiday period include :-
Cheshire League Cross Country at
Castle Park, Frodsham on Sunday 28 December,
Merseyside Country Championships at Stadt Moers, Huyton on Saturday 3 January 2004,
and
Cheshire Country Championships at Knights Grange, Winsford on Saturday 3 January 2004
.
Make sure you stay in touch with your coach
as there will be training sessions during the Christmas break.
A Happy Christmas and New Year to
all.
Child Welfare:
At the Committee
Meeting on 27 November it was decided to form a specific
Child
Welfare sub-committee under the joint chairmanship of our
Child
Protection Officers, Sue Lowrie
and John Irwin, who have been
re-designated
Child Welfare Officers. The invited
sub-committee members, all of whom have
attended child protection courses are
Joe Ehlen, Roseanne Hutchinson,
Frank
Atkinson,
Pauline Picton, Sue Clague,
Liz Devine and Paul Davenport.
Julia Hayes is an ex-officio member of the committee. The role of
the
sub-committee will be to
develop child welfare policies for publication throughout the club. The club's overall
policy is for all coaches and officials to attend
child
protection courses as soon as they become
available.
Record Entry For the Northern
Championships:
We've done it again. 2001, 8 athletes:
no teams: 2002, 26 athletes: three
teams: 2003, 52 athletes : eight teams. It
would have been more but
John
Irwin
is Clerk of the Course, Julia Hayes is
championship secretary,
Jodie
Nelson is in the navy (that'll teach her not to answer
back to Ray Vose!!)
and we
are providing six course marshals (
Denis Fulton, Nicola Quinn, Anna
Sheffield, Paul Davenport, Steve
Eccleston & Dave Morley
).
Joe
Ehlen:
Joe Ehlen was instrumental in the
establishment and development of this
site. His role has been
vital. However, Joe is multi-talented and in recent
months his
commitment to coaching has increased with his work in
primary,
Sports Hall and, in the New Year, sprints and jumps.
Typically Joe asked if
we could make the days longer so he could
fit everything in but, after
consultation, he decided to concentrate on
coaching and development.
Barry
Graney, who it is
rumoured knows a bit about computers, has volunteered to
develop
the technical side of the site and Phil Thomas
will continue
to
provide the words.
Many thanks to Joe for his role in developing
the website and we look forward to seeing the fruits of his labours
in coaching over the cross country
and track seasons.
Qualified First
Aiders
The following club members are
qualified first aiders:
Chris
Dempsey, Janet Holmes and Layla Tapley
.
National
Rankings
Rachael
Hutchinson is ranked
equal 11th in the NUTS under 13 rankings for
the 150 metres.
Tom Fillingham Trophy.
The Tom Fillingham Trophy which has been
missing since 2001 has been located and will be presented to this
year's winner, Barry Graney, at the earliest possible
opportunity.
Christmas
night out, 19 December
The Club
Christmas Night out will be on Friday, 19th December.
Meet from
8pm in Wetherspoons, then on to the Sefton at about
9pm.
Everyone's welcome, try to come along.
Christmas Handicap, Sherdley Park 21
December
The Christmas Handicap will take
place at 11 a.m. on Sunday 21 December.
There will be races for
young athletes and seniors. The handicapper is
Ian
White.
Cheshire League:
Frodsham 28 December
The Cheshire League programme at Castle Park,
Frodsham will start at with the under 11 girls race at 12.30.p.m.
The final race of the afternoon, for senior men, starts at 2.30.p.m.
John Irwin is organising
transport to the event leaving the Sports Centre at 10.30.a.m.
Championship Cross Country
Entries:
The club's entry for the
Merseyside has risen from 32 in 2003 to 45 for the
2004 event
while that of the Northern has more than doubled from 26 to
53.
Entries for the National stand at 29, three more than last
year with another
dozen due to enter before the 18 December
collection date expires.
In last year's Merseyside the under
13 boys won the team title while the
senior men and women also
completed teams. This year we have teams in every
one of the five
male age groups and three the female age groups. Stay fit
over
Christmas.
London
Marathon
The club has received three
entries for the London Marathon. Any club member
wishing to be
considered for one of the places should contact Julia Hayes
as
soon as possible
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