Oswestry
Olympians Juniors Spring Newsletter - March 2008
Easter
Holidays training
- Thursdays 27th March and 3rd April
U11's
(Years 4 and 5) and U13's (Years 6 and 7): 5 - 6pm Marches School
U15's
(Years 8 and 9) and above: 6 -7pm Marches School
Circuit
training: 7 - 8pm Marches Gym
Open
Meetings
6th
April Deeside - Enter on the day
11th
April Fri Evening (6:30pm) Wrexham - Enter on the day
25th
April Fri Evening (6:30pm) Wrexham - Enter on the day
For
details of other meetings, see the summer 2008 calendar page 
Summer
training
From
8th April to 15th July
(NO
TRAINING HALF TERM WEEK)
Tuesdays -
Shrewsbury track 6 - 7.30pm - all age groups - £2.50
(except
22nd April & May 27th)
The
Coach leaves Pedigree in Oswestry at 5.15pm & returns there at
approximately 8.10pm
Thursdays
- Marches
School as above for Easter training - £1.50
There
will be no training on 24th April, 22nd May, 29th May, 19th June,
17th July
Saturdays
- Gatacre
Playing Fields 11am - 12pm (Contact John Roberts 01691 773202)
*Please
use the main car park at the Marches School, (which is a condition
of our use of their facilities) to park, drop off or collect
children. Thank you.
Shropshire
Track and Field Championships
Telford
- Saturday 10th May
- For all age groups except U11
Some
distance events will be on thursday evening 15th May.
To
enter you must have been born in or be resident in Shropshire
-
Entry forms at training sessions or download from our juniors website;
Our
Summer League club competition dates
|
SYAL
(U11 to U17) |
NYAL
(U13 to U17) |
NJAL
(U17 & U20) |
|
24th
April
22nd
May
19th
June
17th
July |
18th
May
1st
June
22nd
June
20th
July |
27th
April
25th
May
29th
June
27th
July |
Thank
you all for your support. Good luck for the summer season.
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OSWESTRY
OLYMPIANS JUNIOR NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2007.
Shropshire
Young Athletes x-c League: The final
meeting is on Sunday 9th December at Oldbury Wells School,
Bridgnorth. First race 1.30pm
Olympians
are lying in second place overall behind Telford and all of our age
group teams and several individuals are in contention for awards. We
would encourage as many as possible to turn out and run for the club.
Shropshire
AA X-C Championships:
Saturday 5th January 2008 at Oldbury Wells School, Bridgnorth. For
Under 13s - Seniors.
Selection
for the Inter Counties x-c Championships in March is based on the
results of these championships.
*
You must have been born in/be resident in Shropshire to compete in
these championships. Sandy Ogden is doing the club entry. Please let
her know asap if you would like to enter.
Midlands
X-C Championships:
Saturday 26th January 2008 at Newbold Comyn, Leamington. For Under
13s to Seniors. Please let Sandy know asap if you would like to be
entered for these championships.
Shropshire
Sportshall League: Wenlock - 6th January.
Oswestry - 3rd February.
Selected
athletes will be informed by Team managers.
December
Indoor Training.
Because of exams we are unable to use The Marches Sports Hall during
December. Training for Under 11s and Under 13s will be
held at Moreton
Hall Sports Hall
on Thursdays 6th, 13th and 20th December 6.30pm - 8pm. Under
15s & above will also be at Morton hall - Tuesdays 4th,
11th and 18th December from 6:30 to 8:30. Circuit
Training
will be during the 2nd hour from 7.30pm - 8.30pm.
Weight
Training: in The Marches Fitness Suite.
Thursdays 6th, 13th and 20th December 6pm -7pm.
Indoor
training at The Marches Sports Hall
will resume on Wednesday 9th January/Thursday 10th January.
Circuit
Training in The Marches Gym will restart on Tuesday 8th January.
Saturday
outdoor training at Gatacre Playing Fields:
11am -12pm until the end of December. No training on 5th January
(Shropshire AA x-c Championships)
Contact
John Roberts for further information 01691 773202
Indoor
Meetings: For Under 15s and above at
the NIA or the High Performance Centre, Birmingham. Entry forms on
the Midlands Counties website.
Parking
for Marches Sports Hall:
Please use the main car parks at The Marches School and DO
NOT try to
access Sports Hall via Penylan Lane.
This
is a condition of our hire of the premises.
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Oswestry
Olympians July 2007 Newsletter
Tuesday
17th July will be our last club training session at Shrewsbury
Track. All who have gone have benefited greatly from being able to
train on the new all weather track and excellent throwing and jumping
facilities. The club is very grateful to Sport England for the travel
grant which made this possible.
*
Please note that there is NO TRAINING on Thursday 19th July because
of the Shropshire Young Athletes league meeting at Shrewsbury.
Training
during the summer holidays:
For
all ages: 6pm -7pm on Thursdays during the school summer
holidays at The Marches School. (26th July to 30th August inclusive)
Training
from September:
Indoor
training: at the Marches Sports Hall will start on:
Wednesdays:
5pm -6pm from 5th Sept for Under 13s (Years 7&8) & any older
athletes interested in sportshall activities.
Contact
Tracy Bathers 01691 655630
Thursdays:
from 6th September:
5pm-6pm
Under 11s (Years 5&6).
Contact
Kathy Wray 01691 656961
6pm
-7pm Winter conditioning for Sprints and Jumps Year 9 and above.
7pm
-8pm Weight Training for Year 9 and above.
Contact
Arnie Wray 01691 656961
Circuit
Training: For Year 8 and above.
Tuesdays
6pm - 7pm from 4th September in The Marches Gym, Morda Road. Contact
Arnie Wray 01691 656961
Outdoor
Training for all age groups.
Cross
country training at Gatacre playing fields.
Saturdays
from 15th September.
11am
-12pm.
Contact
John Roberts 01691 773202
Cost
of indoor training sessions (per hour)
Club
members - £1 Non members - £2
Individual
results for track/field events. Please make sure that Keith Weetman
has your results from any Open Meetings you have competed in. As
usual, he is working extremely hard to compile records of athlete's
performances during the season. These can be seen on the club website.
Dates
for your diary:
8th
Sept - Telford Games. Open Track and Field meeting for all ages
from Under 11 upwards. Entry forms available.
16th
Sept - Uttoxeter Cross Country Races. All ages from Under 11s to
Seniors. A definite must for all who enjoy cross-country, especially
running through a stream several times!! Contact Sandy
Ogden (772151) for further details.
Enjoy
the summer holiday everyone!
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Junior
Athletes Newsletter
March/April
2007
This
Newsletter contains some very important information about our summer
training and travel arrangements.
Please
read it carefully.
Training
during the Easter Holidays:
Under
11s and Under 13s. There will be combined training sessions for both
age groups on Wednesdays 4th and 11th April 5pm -6pm. Marches Sportshall.
Under
11s - no Thursday training during these weeks.
Circuit
Training - Tuesdays 3rd and 10th April as usual 6pm -7pm.
Thursday
indoor training (Arnie's group) 6pm-7pm and Weight Training
7pm
-8pm - as usual Thursday 5th April. No training Thursday 12th April.
Summer
Training Arrangements from Tuesday 17th April.
As
you may have read in the paper, the club has been awarded a grant by
England Athletics (W. Midlands Region) to help towards funding coach
transport to the new track at Shrewsbury every Tuesday from 17th
April until 17th July.
This
is for all age groups and we will be going whatever the weather!!
Coach
will be leaving The Pedigree at 5.15pm. Athletes will train at the
track from 6pm - 7.30pm. Arrive back at The Pedigree approx 8.10pm.
Cost
will be £2 per athlete towards coach fare and track fee.
This
is a great opportunity for Olympian athletes to make use of the new
facilities at Shrewsbury. Please take advantage of it.
If
we run out of space on the coach, we will just have to bring a few
cars as well! But obviously we will have to wait and see how it goes.
Thursday
outdoor training from * 19th April: At The
Marches School playing fields.
Under 11s (Years 4&5) and Under 13s (Years
6&7) 6pm - 7pm
Under 15s and above (Year 8 and above)
6pm -7pm Circuit Training
7pm - 8pm Track and Field training.
Cost - £1 club members/£2 non-members.
every Thursday until 12th July except for 26th April, 24th May, 21st
June when club is competing at Shropshire Young Athletes League meetings.
Training
during the school summer holidays - it may
be possible to organise some sessions, but nothing definite yet.
Club
Membership: due in April. Existing members
will be notified about renewing membership. Please contact Sandy
Ogden Junior Membership Secretary if you would like some information
about becoming a club member.
New
Pick-up Point: We are trying a new venue
for coach pick-ups from April, as there are increasing problems with
leaving cars at Mile End. We will now be meeting at The Pedigree car
park and cars may be left there, provided they are parked at the
Cattle Market end.
Officials
Course for beginners:
As
always, the club is desperately short of qualified officials, with
the burden as ever, falling on a few people to turn out and officiate
at meetings.
All
of the leagues we compete in now award bonus points to clubs
providing officials - timekeepers, track judges and field judges.
Those clubs that do not are therefore penalised. Please consider
getting involved and helping us.
A
course to introduce people to officiating has been organised for
Saturday 28th April at the Alexander Stadium, Birmingham 10am-2pm
(minimum age 14). Please contact Stuart Paul for further
details. Email stuart.paul@usa.net
However if you are not interested in becoming a qualified official,
we will still need parental support to help at meetings during the
summer months.
Club
hoodies and polo shirts:
These
can be ordered directly from PR Sports in Oswestry. Just call in and
ask for details. They will be happy to oblige!
Club
vests: We
are hoping to have a range of junior sizes available to sell on
Thursday training nights and would encourage all who are competing
regularly for the club to "invest" in their own vest as we
now have very few to lend out.
Shrewsbury
Warm-up Open Meeting. Sunday 15th April at the new track behind SCAT
on London Road 11am start.
Track
and Field events for Under 11s upwards. Enter on the day. All welcome.
Finally
- despite all the
recent "doom and gloom", following on from the loss of Park
Hall Stadium, we are looking forward to the forthcoming track and
field season with optimism.
We have a great group of young athletes and a club with a great team
spirit that is often the envy of those in clubs with better training facilities.
Please
support your club by helping in any way you can.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL PARENTS
Club Officials
You
may or may not be aware that at every athletics meeting which we
attend Oswestry Olympians are obliged to provide a team of adults to
help with officiating i.e. measuring, track judging, timekeeping,
recording results etc.
WE NO LONGER HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE
TO FILL THESE ROLES.
As
I'm sure you'll understand, meetings cannot operate if officials are
not made available by the participating clubs. We now need a team of
parents (or other interested adults) to take on these roles at each
meeting we attend, and for some of these people to become qualified.
We
currently only have Kathy Wray and Keith Weetman who are qualified
Field officials. Neither of these have children who compete in any of
the leagues any more and both already fulfil other major voluntary
roles for the club. They cannot be available for every meeting.
The
time has come for parents of younger children to get involved by
accompanying us to meetings, helping with officiating and when
possible, becoming qualified.
In addition, Paul Eaton is the club's only qualified Timekeeper and
we have no qualified Track Judges.
Many thanks to the parents who allowed themselves to be bullied into
helping last Sunday at Deeside. Without their help the meeting could
not have been completed. What we now need is a large team of
volunteers who will become self-sufficient, releasing Keith and Kathy
to do their many other jobs.
Immediately urgent is the next National Young Athletes meeting on
Sunday 20th May at Warrington where we need 6 helpers. In the absence
of 6 volunteers we will have to withdraw from this meeting and from
other league commitments.
Personally I would find this hard to cope with after all the time I
and the other coaches have spent in helping prepare our young
athletes for these competitions.
Please contact Kathy on 01691 656961 as soon as possible to volunteer
your services, otherwise we may find ourselves with a wonderful new
training facility next year but no league competition.
Arnie
Wray (Senior Club Coach)
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December 2006
Newsletter
Holiday
Training dates:
due to different schools having different holidays this year dates
of indoor training sessions over the Christmas period are as follows:
Tuesday
night Circuit Training:
last session on 19th December. Restart on 9th January 2007.
Wednesday
night Under 13 training:
last session on 13th December. Restart on 10th January 2007.
Thursday
night
Under 11 training/Under 15+ Conditioning & Weight Training: last
session on 14th December. Restart on 11th January 2007.
Saturday
morning outdoor training at Gatacre:
John and Andrew will continue Saturdays sessions until 30th
December. January 2007 dates to be confirmed.
Forthcoming
events: * There
are 3 important events taking place before we resume training
sessions after Christmas/New Year.
Bag
Packing at Sainsburys on Friday 22nd December.
This is a fantastic opportunity for us to raise money for our track
appeal. We are doing 2 shifts - 10am-12.30pm and 12.30pm - 3pm.
Although we have had quite a few volunteers there is still plenty of
room for more! Please note that children under 15 must be
accompanied by adults. Ring Kathy (01691 656961) if you are able to help.
Shropshire
AA X-C Championships:
for Under 13s and above at Lilleshall National Sports Centre on
Saturday 6th January 2007. Entries have closed now. If you have
already been entered please confirm race times with Sandy.
·selection
for the Reebok UK Inter Counties X-C Championships at Nottingham in
February will be based on the results of these championships.
Shropshire
Sportshall League:
the third meeting is on Sunday 7th January 2007 at Wenlock. Selected
athletes will be contacted by Team Managers. Coach leaving Mile End
at 12.15pm.
Indoor
Meetings at the NIA:
for Under 15s and above. Please ask Arnie for details if you are interested.
Wishing
you all a very happy
Christmas
and New Year.
) (Sept06