2021 Centre Champs - Saturday 20 March 2021, 9am to around 2pm. ENTRIES NOW OPEN

Centre Champs is coming - the highlight of the year for some athletes, this is the one event of the year where the emphasis is on placings rather than PBs.

First, second and third placings get medals, and for laned events, there may be heats to get into the finals.

Entry is FREE to all athletes who meet our participation requirements, and where their parents have met their duty requirements.

These links also provide the ability to enter the very popular Tim Golder 100m and Warren Hosking 800m Handicap events, (U7 and older). This year, both of these events will be on Saturday 6th March 2021 (our last day of competition).

ENTRIES CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY 27TH FEBRUARY

So what next?

You can start the process by registering at the links below.

State Combined Event, 30th and 31st January 2021

Over the weekend (Jan 30th & Jan 31st )15 of our Keilor Athletes competed in the 1st State LAVic event for over 12 months. Although there were co-vid 19 restrictions on athlete numbers and spectators if was wonderful to see so many athletes striving for PB’s at Lakeside Stadium - It was a great sight.

The Combined Events consisted of five events for U/9 – U/14 athletes and seven events for U/15 & U/16 athletes. The Combined competition requires a strength in a variety of disciplines and endurance to compete over a long time. Each athlete competes in all events and points are awarded for each event. At the end of the day after their final 800m event the points are then tallied for an overall winner.

Our athletes showed a strong determination to strive towards personal best performances with every athlete recording at least 1 PB and some athletes achieving a PB in all 5 events. A fantastic effort considering the limited training and competitions over the past 12 months.

Keilor had two Under 9 athletes, Ruby Withers and Parker Mangan experience their 1st State event - what a fantastic job they did and always with a smile on their faces. We hope this is the start of a long association with Little Athletics state events.

Congratulations to our ribbon winners for their age,

a fantastic effort all day.

Mark Mavrakis U/13: 4th place

                                       Tayissa Kekoc U/11:  5th place

                                       Sienna Gec U/11: 7th place

                                       Ruby Withers U/9:    7th place

Congratulations to all our Keilor athletes.

U/9’s

Ruby Withers

Parker Mangan

          U/11’s

Hannah Gec

Sienna Gec

Tayissa Kekoc

Nate Pokorzynski

U/12’s

Jamie Bartsch

U/13’s

Kiara Boyd

Mischa Atkinson

Alicia Gec

Mitchell Iannello

Mark Mavrakis

           U/14’s

Finn Daffey

Noah McMenamin

Lawrence Cassar

Please see our Facebook page for some photos of our Keilor athletes, besides the images below:

Season kicks off this Saturday 14th November at 9am!

Yes, we are finally starting this Saturday the 14th November at 9am.

It is NOT too late to join - simply register via the link below, even if you simply wish to trial (at no cost)

Note - all regional events will be held after Xmas this year. Including relays. Check out our calendar for the full list of dates.

Please check in regularly with our Facebook page for the most up to date news

KEILOR LITTLE ATHLETICS COVID-19 PROTOCOLS

As per the Little Athletics Victoria Metropolitan Melbourne COVID-19 protocols, the following guidelines must be adhered to by all attendees to the Keilor Little Athletics Centre venue:

Attendance:

• Attendees contact details will be recorded prior to each sanctioned activity.

• Physical distancing (>1.5 metres) must be observed by all attendees at all times.

• Attendees essential to the conducting of sanctioned activities only are to be present.  This includes supervising parents/guardians.

• Only one parent/guardian is permitted to be present to supervise their child/children at all times. Note: where a family is rostered on, regularly volunteers, or is selected to fulfill volunteering duties, both parents/guardians are permitted to be in attendance for purposes of child supervision.

• Spectators are not required or essential to the conducting of sanctioned activities and cannot attend.

• Participants must use hand sanitiser prior to commencement and completion of any sanctioned activity.

• Face masks are to be worn by all attendees 12 years of age and older, including athletes when not competing, that is when they are not on the field of play.

• A “Get in, Train/Compete, Get Out” approach to sanctioned activities.

• If a parent/guardian or athlete feels unwell, they are not to attend competition or training until they feel well and have no symptoms.

• If the COVID Safe Official, coach or committee member observes a parent/guardian or athlete is unwell, the parent/guardian and athlete will be required to return home immediately.

Venue:

• Access to change rooms and toilets is permitted.

• Access to clubrooms and pavilions is not permitted prior to 11.59pm on 8th November 2020.

• Face masks are to be worn by all attendees 12 years of age and older, including athletes when not competing, that is when they are not on the field of play.

• Canteens are permitted to operate in accordance with ‘Accommodation and food services sector guidelines’.

• A regular and thorough cleaning schedule to disinfect all common areas and high touch surfaces will be maintained.

• The toilets must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before and after each competition and training session.

Competition & Training:

• Athletes are encouraged to bring their own water bottles, towels and other personal items to avoid sharing where possible.

• Competition (track and field events) cannot exceed 10 athletes at a time. Officials & volunteers conducting the event are in addition to the athletes.

• Training (track & field events) group sizes cannot exceed 10 athletes at a time. Coaches & volunteers conducting the event are in addition to the athletes.

• Field events: athletes must maintain 1.5m physical distancing while waiting for their attempts.

• Track events: physical distancing of 1.5m between athletes is not required while competing (i.e. standing at start line and during the race).

• Attendees should avoid all contact with others, such as handshaking and giving high fives.

• For Competition & training, athletes will be required to only use the equipment allocated to them unless they supply their own.

• Participants must use hand sanitiser prior to commencement and completion of any sanctioned activity.

Further information can be found on the Little Athletics Victoria website :

KLAC (Online) Annual General Meeting - Thursday 7th May at 7.30pm

While we normally hold our AGM during our Centre Championships, these championships were not held this year.

So we have rescheduled our AGM to Thursday 7th May at 7.30pm - as a Zoom meeting, via the details below.

Join with Google Meet

meet.google.com/mqq-zygi-ywu

Join by phone

‪+61 3 8594 6848‬ PIN: ‪985 602 536‬#

Or dial in: +61 3 7018 2005 - Meeting ID: 836 5570 8886, Password: 485056

KLAC Presentation Day! Full list of results found here

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The full list of results are found via the button below.

You can watch the Presentation Day live feed again via this link - https://youtu.be/Vgb6NVdT1eo

Picking up of medals and trophies

Sorry, but at this stage no one will be able to pick up medals or trophies.

This is in line with the directives of the Federal and Victorian governments to avoid all non-essential activities.

1920/20 KLAC Track and Field season has now ended.

Following in from the corona virus crises, the Centre Championships have been cancelled, and the Presentation Day has been postponed until a more suitable date. We may end up changing the format of this.

At this stage, no decision has been made on the cross-country season, but this may be delayed or cancelled.

We thank you for your support of the club this past season, and we look forward to the resumption of the sport when this is possible.

Northern Metro Region Track and Filed Carnival 2020

What a Huge weekend Keilor Little Athletics Club had this weekend hosting the NMR Track and Field Carnival. We hosted athletes from eight other clubs at our track to compete in all events for a chance to compete at States in March.

The effort, not only by the committee members but so many of our Keilor families before the day and over the weekend ensuring the all was ready for the NMR was incredible. We had parents fulfilling athletics duties - race  starting/ discus/ long jump/ medal presentations, running the canteen, cooking the BBQ, cleaning clubrooms, making sandwiches, setting up marquees & equipment, pressure hosing all the mud from paths on Saturday evening and packing it all up on Sunday afternoon.  A HUGE Thank You - you are what makes this club so special.

And, then we have our amazing  ninety athletes,  striving in all events for the personal bests and claiming so many medals along the way. Competing in the rain on Saturday did not deter our athletes with many still gaining PB’s in the track events on a rain soaked track. It was great to see some sunshine on Sunday and it seemed to lift our athletes’ spirits and improve their performances.

As you will have seen in the photos on our Facebook page so much determination from all our athletes to succeed.

Congratulations to all our wonderful athletes on their great performances.

Overall Team Keilor achieved:

• 28 GOLD 

• SILVER

• 36 BRONZE  

• 3rd overall in the Team results

Special congratulations to all our U/16 athletes who competed in their final  NMR competition.  Great to see continued support and leadership from these aspiring athletes, with all of them gaining at least one medal.

Abby Cain        Lucas Leong       Ebony Mangion Jackson Mc Menamin        

  Maddison Reynolds      Michelle Spurrell Teagan Walshe      

Fantastic effort by all our medal winners.

Jackson Mc Menamin       U/16              3 Gold, 1 Silver

Lucas Leong                         U/16              1 Gold, 1 Silver

Maddison Reynolds           U/16              1 Gold, 1 Bronze

Ebony Mangion                  U/16              1 Silver, 1 Bronze

Michelle Spurrell                U/16              1 Bronze

Abby Cain                             U/16              1 Bronze

Teagan Walshe                   U/16              1 Bronze

Maire McEvoy                     U/15              1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze            

Sajidian Haider                    U/15              2 Silver

Ariel Melnik                         U/15              1 Bronze

Kristian Barresi                   U/15              1 Bronze

Chanachai Kankratok        U/14              1 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze

Marco Spagnuolo               U/14               1 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze

Dilan Egodawatte               U/14              2 Gold

Max Busuttil                        U/14               2 Gold

Brianna Mastin                   U/14              3 Silver, 1 Bronze

Susana Siale                         U/14              2 Bronze

Samuel Scodella                 U/14              1 Bronze

Noah Mc Menamin            U/13              1 Gold, 1 Silver 2 Bronze

Connor  Muse                      U/13              1 Gold, 1 Silver

Sukhnoor Rangi                  U/13              1 Gold

Khushnoor Rangi                U/13              1 Gold

Dakota Reynolds                U/13              3 Silver

Finn Daffey                          U/13              1 Silver, 2 Bronze

Ethan Stegehius                  U/13              2 Bronze

Damon Aguis                       U/13              1 Bronze

Cianah Dal Ben                    U/13              1 Bronze

William Hurt            U/12              1 Gold, 2 Silver

Alicia Gec                              U/12               1 Gold, 2 Silver

Coleen Egan                         U/12              2 Silver

Mark Mavrakis                    U/12              1 Silver, 1 Bronze

Cooper Matthews              U/12              1 Silver

Noah Maffia                        U/12              2 Bronze      

Zulqarnain Haider              U/11              3 Gold, 1 Silver

Lachlan Fabbri                     U/11              1 Gold, 1 Bronze    

Leila Stegehuis                    U/11              2 Sliver, 1 Bronze

Abigail Pellow                      U/11              2 Bronze

Brandon Cvetanoski          U/11              1 Bronze

Sienna Gec                           U/10               2 Gold, 1 Silver

Tayissa Kekoc                      U/10              1 Gold, 3 Silver

Nate Pokorzynski               U/10              1 Gold, 2 Silver

Hannah Gec                         U/10              2 Silver

Archie Seidel                        U/10               1 Silver, 1 Bronze

Michael Sayed                    U/10              1 Silver

Oliver Sobell                        U/10              1 Silver

Prabhpreet Rangi               U/10              1 Bronze

Phoenix Cotsis                     U/9                2 Gold           

Charlotte Pellow                 U/9                1 Silver, 1 Bronze  

Evan Manefield                   U/9                 1 Silver, 1 Bronze

Charlie De Bono                  U/9                 1 Silver         

Once again congratulations to all our Athletes - Keilor LAC is very proud of you.

We look forward to cheering many of you on at the State event in March 

GO TEAM KEILOR!

STATE COMBINED EVENT, 1st & 2nd February

Congratulations to our State Champions

SIENNA GEC U/10 and FRANK MAZZA U/15   

     SIENNA GEC U/10

This is the 2nd Year in a row Sienna has won this competition.  On Saturday Sienna competed against over 80 other athletes from around the state. A great show of continued development and stamina over the past 12 months. Go Girl!

FRANK MAZZA U/15

For Frank, he is continuing his dominance in Multi event competitions. Earlier in the season, Frank won the State Senior Aths U/15 Title in the Athletics Victoria Vic Multi-event Championships in Bendigo achieving a State record. Frank is heading to America soon to compete in the Simplot Games and will compete in the Australian National Event in Sydney later in the year. A fantastic achievement Frank - wish you Good Luck.

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In total thirty athletes represented Keilor Athletics Club at the State Combined Events over the weekend at Lakeside Stadium.

The Combined Events consist of five events for U/9 – U/13 athletes and six events for the U/14’s and seven events for U/15 & U/16 athletes. The Combined competition requires strength in a variety of disciplines and endurance to compete over a long time. Each athlete competes in all events and points are awarded for each event. At the end of the day, points are then tallied for an overall winner.

It was great to see so many athletes attend this Combined event, many for the first time. Our athletes showed a strong determination to strive towards personal best performances and work hard all day, especially in their final event, the 800m.

Congratulations to all of our Keilor athletes.

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U/9’s

Charlotte Pellow

Charlie DeBono

Yasr Hannie

U/10’s

Hannah Gec

Sienna Gec

Tayissa Kekoc

Nate Pokorzynski

Prabhpreet Rangi

Michael Sayed

Oliver Sobell

U/11’s

Abigail Pellow

Brandon Cvetanoski

James Darmanin

Jamie Postregna

U/12’s

Kiara Boyd

Alicia Gec

Liam Fagone-Lazita

Marcus Franze

Mitchell Iannello

Mark Mavrakis

Lucas Scerri

Luca Vella

U/13’s

Finn Daffey

Noah McMenamin

Sukhnoor Rangi

Khushnoor Rangi

U/14’s

Jasmine Galang

U/15’s

Maire McEvoy

Frank Mazza

U/16’s

Maddison Reynolds

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Fantastic results Team Keilor – Hope to see more of our athletes try this event next season.

Please see our Facebook page for some photos of our State Champions and other Keilor athletes.

Keilor Gift - U12 Handicap race, Saturday 15th Feb - Winners announced!

Updated 15 February 2020 - Winners announced!

Congratulations to our 2020 Keilor Gift U12 winners Roman Muse and Charli Mangan. As always it was a tight race, but Roman and Charli pulled that little extra out to cross the line first in their races.

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Many people would have heard of the Stawell Gift, a famous handicap running race held in Stawell every Easter. In fact, this is one of a series of such races, including the Keilor Gift, which will be held next Saturday at the Keilor Football Club.

As part of this, the Keilor Gift holds an U12 handicap event for both girls and boys, and our club invites our U12 (and U11) athletes to participate.

The list below shows the Keilor athletes who will be participating, and the distances that they will start of - we thank all athletes and their families for representing Keilor.

To read the table, if we take the Boys race for example, Noah and Antoinee will start at 0 Metres (run the full race), while Connon Prendergast will start 15m in front of him. The aim of the handicapper is that all of the athletes finish at the same time - last year it was a very close and exciting finish, so hopefully we get the same this year.

In both the boys and girls races, the last listed athlete (in italics) is the emergency, in case one of the top 8 cannot compete.

Boys Under 12 (some athletes are under 11)

Girls Under 12 (and U11)

We wish all athletes the best of luck on the day! - anyone can win this race…….

Results from Keilor Essendon Challenge are now available.

Check out the link below

KLAC 50th Anniversary Celebration Dinner - Friday 7th Feb 2020, from 7pm. Tickets SOLD OUT

50 years ago this summer, a group of people came together to form Keilor Little Athletics - and we think that both this, and the 50 years of effort and achievement since then, are well worth celebrating.

And we are going to do this on Friday 7th February 2020 at 7pm, with a special dinner at lakeside Banquet & Convention Centre in. Taylors Lakes . This will include a 3-course meal with beer, wine or soft drinks, and music entertainment. This should be a great night as the past and current officials and parents come together to celebrate 50 years of helping young people grow as athletes and people.

Tickets are now SOLD OUT - Thank to all whom have supported this event.

Any questions? Contact (KLAC past president) Sam Barbuto on 0415 688 674, or current president Wayne Mangion on 0410 406 708.

Where?

The location of the Lakeside Banquet & Convention Centre in Taylors Lakes is shown below.

 

STATE RELAYS 2019

At Casey Fields Athletics track on Saturday 14th December we had  46 teams competing - Keilor’s highest number of teams ever - at the State Relay Championships.

Our team of over 80 athletes should be congratulated for their determined running, and for demonstrating excellent team spirit and support for each other throughout the long day.  You gave your parents, family and coaches many reasons to cheer, smile and be extremely proud of your efforts.

Although not every team came home with a medal, all age groups and teams showed great strength, resilience and commitment with many PB’s smashed from the Regional Event to the State event.  We are excited to see what you can produce next season!

Special mention goes to all the coaches – Tim Golder, Brian McEvoy, Steve Scodella, Louise Muse & Michelle Graham, Zlatan & Maryanne Gec and Warren Hosking and all their assistants.  A thank you to all the parents who take their kids to training and lead up events to ensure they are prepared for racing and to represent Keilor.  Lastly a huge thanks to Michelle Graham who was the Team Manager at Regional and State relay events.  Michelle puts in a lot of work to get the roster correct, planning for the events and dealing with protests and other issues on the day.  We are indebted to Michelle for her commitment and passion to the role.

• U/9 teams: It was the athletes first experience in relays and got better every time they got out on the track.  We look forward to seeing these athletes develop and improve in the coming seasons.

• U/10 Teams: this group seems to always have fun at training and they replicated their fun on the track and were a delight to watch.  All teams did really well and the friendships this group has formed will only grow and will show even more in their results in seasons to come.

• U/11 Teams: All 11 athletes produced some great performances on the day and their training and hard work was evident on the day.  We look forward to watching this group develop together and performing at relay events.

• U/12 Teams: over 20 athletes (record for Keilor) competed in eight different events – what a strong depth of talent we have at this age group. We look forward to more achievements next season.

• U/13 Teams: All six teams that ran finished in the top 8 in the state – an excellent achievement.

• U/14 Teams: High expectations were placed on the U14 teams and they did not disappoint.  The team has a great synergy and friendships amongst the athletes and those connections will only improve for the next couple of seasons.

• U/15 Teams: A small team but full of heart performed well and did Keilor and their families proud.

• U/16 Teams: 12 athletes competed in the relays for the last time. Some of these athletes have being training with Tim for the past 6 years, demonstrating an amazing friendship and connection between the athletes, with loads of talent and deep respect between the coach and his athletes. They have achieved a lot together. All seven teams that ran finished in the top 6 in the state. Congratulations to all the U/16 teams.

Team Keilor came home with

• 6 GOLD

• 6 SILVER

• 2 BRONZE

Our medal winning teams were:

U/16

·         GOLD:             4 x 100m Boys team

·         SILVER:           4 x 100m Mixed team

·         SILVER:           4 x 200m Mixed team

U/15

·         BRONZE:        4 x 200m Boys team

U/14

·         GOLD:             4 x 100m Mixed team

·         GOLD:             4 x 100m Boys team

·         BRONZE:        4 x 200m Boys team

·         SILVER:           4 x 200m Mixed team

U/12

·         SILVER:           4 x 100m Mixed team

U/11

·         GOLD:             4 x 200m Boys team

·         GOLD:             Medley Boys team

U/10

·         GOLD:             4 x 200m Mixed team

·         SILVER:           4 x 200m Girls team

·         SILVER:           4 x 100m Mixed team

Thank you also to our wonderful team of coaches and their helpers:

• U/16, U12 & U/11 Tim Golder,     

• U/15 Brian McEvoy,

• U/14 Steve Scodella,                     

• U/13 Louise Muse,

• U/10 Zlatan & Maryanne Gec     

• U/9 Warren Hosking

Make sure you look at all our relay photos on our Facebook page.

Go Team Keilor – Let’s do it all again next year.

CONGRATULATIONS TO TEAM KEILOR -OVERALL CLUB WINNERS AT THE NORTHERN METRO RELAYS ON SATURDAY.

An amazing day of teamwork and running by our athletes to win 29 of the 65 races.  As a result, we won the overall club score total by over 40 points. Our best result ever.

Our relay teams seem to be going from strength the strength over the past few years with our senior teams leading the way with their commitment and passion for the Relays. A big thank you to these older athletes showing our younger teams how to perform and leading by example. Our U/9’s in their first experience of relays were impressive and determined to do themselves and the club proud – well done.

A very big thank you to our coaches, a great effort to get our teams trained and ready for the NMR event and to have all athletes in the correct spot and the correct time.

To our wonderful parents, thank you for your support of the Keilor Little Athletics Club, completing duties and cheering for all our athletes.

Good luck to the many teams who will be competing at the State Relays in Casey on Saturday the 14th December.

Go Team Keilor!

Our outstanding medal results:

U/9:

Girls 4 x 200m           2nd

Mixed 4 x 200m          2nd & 3rd

U/10:

Girls 4 x 200m            1st

Girls Medley                1st

Boys 4 x 200m            1st

Boys 4 x 100m            2nd 

Boys Medley               3rd

Mixed 4 x 200m          1st   & 3rd

Mixed 4 x 100m          1st  

U/11:

Girls 4 x 200m            2nd

Boys 4 x 200m            1st

Boys Medley              1st

Mixed 4 x 100m          3rd 

U/12:

Girls 4 x 200m             1st   & 3rd

Girls 4 x 100m             2nd  

Girls Medley                1st

Boys 4 x 200m            2nd

Boys 4 x 100m            2nd

Boys Medley               1st

Mixed 4 x 200m          1st 

Mixed 4 x 100m          2nd  

U/13:

Girls 4 x 200m            3rd

Girls 4 x 100m            1st

Girls Medley                1st

Boys 4 x 200m            1st

Boys 4 x 100m            1st

Boys Medley               1st

Mixed 4 x 200m          3rd

Mixed 4 x 100m          2nd  

U/14:

Girls Medley                1st

Boys 4 x 200m            1st

Boys 4 x 100m            1st

Boys Medley              1st

Mixed 4 x 200m          1st 

Mixed 4 x 100m          1st  

U/15:

Boys 4 x 200m           1st   & 3rd

Mixed 4 x 200m          1st 

Mixed 4 x 100m          2nd   

U/16:

Girls 4 x 200m             2nd

Girls 4 x 100m            2nd

Girls Medley                1st

Boys 4 x 200m            1st

Boys 4 x 100m            1st

Boys Medley               1st

Mixed 4 x 200m          1st 

Mixed 4 x 100m          2nd & 3rd

Northern Metro Region Combined Event, 10 Nov 2019

Congratulations to Team Keilor on some fantastic performances at the NMR combined event held on Sunday 10th November 2019.

Thirty four athletes from U/9 – U/16 competed in 5 or 6 events each throughout the day to accumulate points and gain an overall score. Keilor achieved 6 GOLD, 1 SILVER and 1 BRONZE medals.

Our athletes did Keilor Club proud and Keilor finished second overall by only 9 points behind a much bigger club Whittlesea City.

Our individual results were:

U/9 Girls U/9 Boys

GOLD: Charlotte Pellow 7th: Evan Manefield

5th : Maddison Byrne 14th: Yasr Hannie

7th: Phoenix Cotsis 16th: Aidan Hughes

10th: Cecilia Koesasi

U/10 Girls U/10 Boys

GOLD: Sienna Gec 4th: Michael Sayed

BRONZE: Tayissa Kekoc 5th: Oliver Sobell

4th: Hannah Gec 6th: Archie Seidel

U/11Girls U/11 Boys

6th: Abigail Pellow 11th: Brandon Cevtonski

12th: Indiana Cotsis

15th: Veiongo Siale

18th: Sarah Cook

U/12 Girls

5th: Sarah Waring

6th: Alicia Gec

9th: Ella Mc Menamin

15th: Ella Stafford

U/13 Girls U/13 Boys

5th: Dakota Reynolds GOLD: Noah Mc Menamin

6th: Sienna Athaide SILVER: Finn Daffey

9th : Celina Aguilar 5th: Ashton Mc Menamin

U/14 Girls:

GOLD: Lara Sacaner

5th: Susan Siale

U/15 Girls U/15 Boys

GOLD: Maire Mc Evoy 5th: Ariel Melnik

U/16 Girls U/15 Boys

GOLD: Maddison Reynolds 5th: Ariel Melnik

Well done to all our athletes on their achievements and a big thank you for all the support from the Keilor families in completing duties and cheering our team.