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We hope you all had a nice weekend (or extra long weekend with some schools being closed on Monday). We are back on Saturday this week. U7 GIRLS are on set up (please arrive at 7:15am). U8 GIRLS and U11 BOYS are on BBQ. U12 Boys are on Pack Up. Please don’t do a Houdini and leave without helping to pack up.

This week’s email covers:

1. This Saturday 11th November
2. This Sunday 12th November – Mentone Relay Day
3. Wednesday coaching – you need to sign up to attend
4. SSV State Track & Field Championships – Congratulations to our Sandy Little Athletes!
1. This Saturday November 11th 

• Start times:  8:15AM for U6 – U9 & 9:45AM for U10 – U17.
• Set up help, pack up help and BBQ:  U7 GIRLS are on set up this week (please arrive at 7:15am). U8 GIRLS and U11 BOYS are on BBQ. U12 Boys are on Pack Up. 
• Where to go: come in to the track and head towards your age group sign. (If you haven’t picked up your bib yet, you will need to pick that up from the registration tent at the front)
• What to bring (and what NOT to): water bottle, hat & sunscreen (if sunny). Please don’t bring your furry friend along or any balls/sporting equipment. Don’t be offended if we ask you to take your dog behind a fence or confiscate your ball for the session (we’ve had some close calls with discus and javelin – it’s for everyone’s safety).  
• What to wear: Competition Patch/Bib – this contains your membership number which is scanned for track results. It needs to be worn across the lower chest/stomach each session. A REMINDER AGAIN TO MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD HAS THEIR COMPETITION BIB/PATCH ON – WE CAN NOT LOG CHILDRENS’ RUNNING RESULTS WITHOUT IT. 
• Wet weather: Check out the wet weather button on our website (in the top left hand corner), which we will update at 7.30am on Saturday mornings if the weather is concerning – and again at 9.15am for the second session. 
• Program: Here is the PROGRAM for this week. Please note, if you would like to participate in the 200m hurdles or 300m hurdles you will need to be ready at 9:45am. 
• Trialists:  If you have friends who are considering joining Sandy let them know that every trialist (season 23/24) that officially joins the club by 11 November will go into the draw for a chance to win a Coles gift card valued at $50.00. 

2. This Sunday 12th November – Mentone Relay Day

We have over 100 of our little athletes competing at the Mentone Relay Day this coming Sunday. For those attending, a separate email will be sent out – keep an eye out for it in your inbox.  Good luck to all of the children!

(Can the Sandringham parents go back-to-back and win the parent shuttle? Let’s go!)

Here is a link with some more details 

http://www.mentonelac.com.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=Display_Page&PageID=16612&OrgID=1510

Mentone relays link

3. Wednesday coaching – you need to sign up to attend

Thank you to all the families that are using Signup to register their child’s attendance at Wednesday training. We have capped numbers to ensure that there is quality coaching and appropriate duty of care.  If children are not signed up they will not be able to attend training.  However, please make sure you remove your child’s name if they can no longer attend. We will start recording no-shows as this is a unfair to others.

Any questions regarding training or specific events you would like more sessions, please reach out to natasha.franchina@gmail.com. Here is the sign up link again (or sign up through the Stack Team App)

https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/221704548056/true#/invitation

4. SSV State Track & Field Championships – Congratulations to our Sandy Little Athletes!

Congratulations to all of the Sandringham Little Athletics children who participated at the SSV State Primary Track and Field Championships last week.  A lot of hard work paying off – we all very proud of you. Here is a list of the medal placings. 

• GOLD – Girls 9-10 80 Meter Hurdles 60cm (Polly Owen) 
• GOLD – Girls 9-10 100 Meter Dash (Mackenzie Duddy) 
• GOLD – Girls 9-10 Long Jump (Mackenzie Duddy) 
• GOLD – Boys 12-13 Long Jump Multiclass (Xavier Harrison) 
• GOLD – Boys 12-13 High Jump (Teddy Bowen) 
• SILVER – Boys 11 Year Olds 800 Meter Run (Cooper Ille) 
• BRONZE – Girls 9-10 800 Meter Run (Alannah Sullivan) 
• BRONZE – Girls 9-10 High Jump (Alannah Sullivan)

SLAC Committee   |    sandringham@lavic.com.au

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It’s our final session of the year this Saturday and we have Brighton Little Aths joining us (this will replace the combined event we had originally planned in January with Brighton).

This Saturday 10th December

Below are some further details for this Saturday:

• Start times:  8:15AM for U6–U8s and 10AM for U10-U17s
• Set up help: Parents of U8 BOYS are on set up – please make the effort to arrive at 7:20am to help out. All parents to chip in to pack up at 10am!
• Your individual registration number: Please make sure your child is wearing it! It makes it very hard for us to be inputting children’s details at the end of a race without their tag. Much more efficient to scan!
• Coffee van: YES!
• BBQ: YES! Parents of U7 GIRLS and U12 BOYS are on BBQ cooking duties.
• Bananas: YES! (and they are free)
• Merchandise: YES!
• Wet weather: Check out the wet weather button on our website (in the top left hand corner), which we will update at 7.30am on Saturday mornings if the weather is concerning – and again at 9.15am, so as to cover the second session.
• Program: here is the program for this week – CLICK HERE. Please be patient on Saturday, there will be lots of people around.  For the second session, we will be limiting people walking on the infield because we start javelin mid-way through.  (You will need to walk around the edge).
• Car parking: this will be challenging and we ask members to allow time for parking, use local streets (but be mindful of parking time limits) or walk/cycle from home.
• Donations of old uniforms: If you have any uniforms that your children have outgrown, please drop them in to out merch area. We all love to recycle and reuse! There’s a planet out there to look after.

Parent Duty Roster

Parent Duty Rosters for this weekend, and the first couple of weekends in the new year, have been completed.  A copy of next 3 duties can be found here

Please diarise when you are on. The full duty roster is here and links to Duty and Mid-Week coaching are available on our Team App and our website for quick reference.

What if I can’t do the allocated duty?  This can happen, we understand.  Please help by finding a replacement.  If you can’t find a replacement, please cancel yourself out of that particular Duty and put yourself down for another one.

How many duties do I have to do? 4 per season if you have 1 child at the club and 5 duties if you have multiple children.  These 4 duties are for the centre program (not including set up, BBQ or external events you chose to participate in). Duties include measuring or raking long jump for example, or picking up the discuss after the throws.

I have already done my 4 duties.  Great and THANK YOU.  We are working through all this at the moment and on some occasions we have no record of your assistance.  We are currently cross referencing but if you have done 4 and want to let us know, please email Nicole at sandringhampresident@lavic.com.au

What happens if I don’t do my duties? We’d like to think that every parent will participate and not rely on everyone else to support their children. But if this doesn’t happen, it will unfortunately mean your child will not be able to participate in our Club Championships at the end of the Season.

What do I get for doing duties? Spending time with your child and community for a start! But also, we have sourced a Community Shopping Pack which we will give to those members who do their rounds of duty.  The Community Shopping Pack consists of several vouchers you can use within the Bayside Area.

A FREE Grill’d Voucher for every member!

The newly opened Grill’d Hampton has joined us as one of our Community Partners for the 2022 / 23 Season. How good is that?!

For the month of December, Sandy Little Athletics Club will be one of 3 Community Clubs that will be participating in their well known “Local Matters Community Program”, a program designed to give back to the Community.

We are gifting every Sandy Little Athletics Club member with a Free Voucher for either a Grill’d Hampton Burger or Salad – WHO DOESN’T LOVE FREE STUFF?

In order to increase our chances of winning the Local Matters Program, we ask that you use your voucher in store during the month of December. You will be given tokens in store when you visit Grill’d. Please allocate these to Sandy Little Aths. The more tokens, the higher chance our club has of winning.  If we win, we receive a donation of funds from Grill’d which will help assist our club.

To collect your FREE Voucher please visit the Canteen at the track on either Saturday 3rd or Saturday 10th of December.

Inaugural Sandy Little Aths On-line Auction

• A round of golf for 4 at Royal Melbourne Golf Club
• Australian Open tickets
• x4 tickets to SYNTHONY No.3 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl
• Signed Charlie Curnow & Patrick Cripps Carlton FC 2022 Guernsey – click here to view
• Signed Melbourne United Basketball
• Signed Melbourne FC 2021 Premiership Guernsey
• Vouchers from local businesses and restaurants
• $400 Levi’s voucher
• BMW branded luggage
• Camping & sporting equipment
• A Fitbit Versa 3 watch
• 3-month Goodlife gym membership

Relays – well done to everyone!

Upcoming Competitions

18 and 19 Feb 2023 – As we’ve mentioned before, registrations are now open for the Region Track and Field Carnivals for this season which will be held on 18 and 19 February 2023.  Athletes are allowed to choose up to 5 of their favourite events and enjoy participating in them alongside other athletes from Centres within their Region. Each registered Little Aths member would have received an email providing further details on this event. Have a look on the website for more details – Click here for more info

10 December – Knox and are holding their open days, anyone can participate! Click here for more info

17 December – Doncaster are holding their open days, anyone can participate! Click here for more info

See you all on Saturday!

Regards,

SLAC Committee
e: sandringham@lavic.com.au
m: 0413 705 357

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We are back on this Saturday – fingers crossed this crazy weather improves and the rain stays away! It was such a shame that we couldn’t hold the Halloween Night last Friday, it’s usually a lot of fun. But we push on!

This week’s email covers the following topics:

1. Saturday 5th November
2. Saturday 12 November- it’s a big day for Sandy!
3. Relays – cut off date is 12 November for registrations
4. Bunnings BBQ – What a fantastic result!

This Saturday 5th November

Below are some general details and info for this Saturday:

Start times: 8:15AM for U6-U9 & 10AM for U10-U17

Parent help: Parents of U6 BOYS are on set up – please make the effort to arrive at 7:20am to help out. Parents of U11 GIRLS are on pack up duty.

Coffee van: Yes!

BBQ: Yes! Parents of U7 BOYS & U12 GIRLS are on BBQ cooking duties.

What to bring: water bottle, a hat and sunscreen… PLEASE LET IT BE SUNNY!

Parent duties: have you signed up for 4 duties during the season? Please do so as we are all volunteers working with our kids to improve their athletic skill development. SIGN UP HERE

Where to go: little athletes should line up behind their age group sign (i.e. U8) and say hello to their Age Group Manager (who can tick them off as being present). It would be great if the parents could stand a little behind the children to allow them to mingle and gather. It can be a little intimidating for those little athletes to be surrounded by lots of big people!

Car parking: we have car parking at the track as well as in the streets – please be mindful of where you park in the streets so our neighbours can access their driveways and you don’t get parking fines!

Wet weather: You will probably be quite familiar with this now… We have a wet weather button on our website (in the top left hand corner), which we will update at 7.30am on Saturday mornings if the weather is concerning – and again at 9.15am so as to cover the second session.

Program: here is the program for this week – CLICK HERE FOR INFO. We will also try to squeeze in another run at the end for the U9’s to get them ready for the forthcoming relays.

Saturday November 12th

Saturday 12th November is a big one for Sandy! We have about 20 members competing at the State Combined event in Albert Park – good luck, go get them!

We will run a program at our track that day for all other members. It’s the Coles Community Round, where we hold the Connors Run event at the track and will also have x2 World Champion Kelsey-Lee Barber coming to visit us from 8.30am for about an hour.

No matter where you are – it will be fab!

Relays – cut off date is November 12th

The relays portal is now live to register. Here is a reminder about what it is all about – CLICK HERE FOR INFO

U8’s can join the relay program but can compete at Mentone only (they’re too young for the broader state competitions yet – next year!).

U9-U17 can compete at Mentone and Regionals. Teams are selected through a process which involves recorded times, coaches input and the selection committee.

Sunday Bunnings BBQ – What a fantastic result!

The club’s second BBQ fundraiser for this year was held at Mentone Bunnings on Sunday 30th October. It was a huge success! Thank you to all the volunteers including parents of children – Tess, Talia, Simon Glendenning, Damian Hariss, Alan lille, Anna Owen, Mel Withington, Rachael and Coco and Anton Duddy.

Without their support we wouldn’t have been able to achieve the results that we did on the weekend – final profit for the club was fantastic (and apparently one of the biggest days for Bunnings since March 2019). It appeared that everybody loved some DIY this day and a snag or two to go with it.

In summary – all the volunteers were amazing, passionate and full of enthusiasm in order to help the club out on a long weekend… Some have already put their hands up asking when the next Bunnings event is on!

A special thank you from the committee to Nick Milat who has worked extremely hard to get this organised – you’ve done a fantastic job and we thank you for the many hours you have dedicated to this. As a sign of our appreciation we gifted Nick 5 trays of snags… (just joking, he probably can’t quite face any more sausages right now).

Catch you Saturday everyone!

Regards,

SLAC Committee
e: sandringham@lavic.com.au
m: 0413 705 357

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Dear Member,

We advise you that this coming weekend Saturday 13th February, there is no Sandringham Little Athletics on.

Instead, most of the Committee, Age Group Managers and athletes will be attending the Regional Track and Field Competition held at Duncan McKinnon. We wish all our athletes in their individual track and field pursuits the best of luck and we will endeavour to bring you the highlights as soon as we are able to.

Mid-week Coaching

Wednesday:  There are a few spots still available.  Two more weeks of coaching have been set up now which will be the last for this season.  Coaching Sign Up

17th Feb: 4.15pm-5pm Starts or  high jump U9-U10 Scissor   &    5-6pm     Hurdles,   Discus or High Jump U11-U16

24th Feb: 4.15pm-5pm Crouch Starts & Blocks or Long Jump   &    5-6pm    crouch starts & blocks,  Hurdles  or Discus

NO RELAY TRAINING this Wednesday due to track and field this weekend.  More info on relays is coming out later this week.

Saturday 20th February is our Coles Community Day.  Coles Highett has given us a $200 voucher to buy sausages etc. so that we can have a sausage sizzle for the kids.  A representative of the Store will come down to the track to look at all the equipment the Coles Community Fund has given us and have a photo with the kids  – so please make sure you have your Coles patches sewn on!!

But there is more  – we have also acquired x10  $10 Coles Vouchers to give out to the Best Dressed Athletes or Volunteers…so get thinking and creative.  WHAT WILL YOU WEAR??

ALERT

Need a Uniform for this weekend? – then please contact Nicole via email at sandringhampresident@lavic.com.au

Thanks for all your ongoing enthusiasm and support!

The Sandy Little Aths Committee