Author: John Purcell

  • National Medalists Coffee

    National Medalists Coffee

    Our Club Patron Jonty Bush and Vice-Patron Cr Steve Toomey joined us for breakfast this morning at the Corn St Cafe at West Ashgrove to help us congratulate some of our National medalists on their successes over the summer season.Joining them were: Unable to make it due to other commitments were Shea Caminiti (Gold 13…

  • Honeyeater Cross Country 2023

    Honeyeater Cross Country 2023

    Certainly Ashgrove’s strongest Brisbane Cross Country Series team effort in a long time yesterday. Courageous running by our athletes on the tough course at Honeyeater saw us go down by only 3 points to Thompson Estate 567 to 564 points with Toowong Harriers in third place on 529 points in Round 2 of the Brisbane…

  • All Schools & Short Course Championships 2023

    All Schools & Short Course Championships 2023

    Not sure exactly how we ended up at Victoria Park for an All Schools/Short Course Cross Country on Mother’s Day but athletes like Daniel Casey were extremely appreciative of their mums (in Dan’s case Melissa Harper) taking the time to cheer them on. Well done to our medal winners Lynda Bateson (Gold 60 years plus),…

  • South Burnett Express 2023

    South Burnett Express 2023

    A successful running of our South Burnett Express Rail Trail Relay today with 19 teams making it to the start line in the end up from 8 teams in 2021 and 10 teams in 2022. This year the event was the Queensland Road Relay Championships for the first time and there were great efforts from…

  • Nundah Criterium Relays 2023

    Nundah Criterium Relays 2023

    Our young cheer squad was in full cry at what was a terrific event today at the Nundah Criterium Relays cheering on not only our runners but all other teams as well in a fantastic display of sportsmanship. We had three teams get into the placings: A big thanks to Phil Hungerford and the organisers…

  • Intra-School Cross Country

    Intra-School Cross Country

    A shout out to our junior Rangers who performed very well at school cross country this week. Great work, Eliza and Dylan! Well deserved first place ribbons after consistent training and a positive “try your best” attitude. How fabulous to hear that another junior Ranger has performed so well at school cross country today! Abigail…

  • Australian Junior Track & Field Championships 2023 Wrap Up

    Australian Junior Track & Field Championships 2023 Wrap Up

    Not sure many Gold Medals at QE2 have been as hard-earned as this one – Tate Van Camp after running 1:59.7 to take the Meet Record in the Under 14 800m. It was an epic battle with Wollongong’s Harry Keats which saw Tate fight back tremendously when challenged in the home straight with the local…

  • Australian Junior Track & Field Championships 2023 – Day 1

    Australian Junior Track & Field Championships 2023 – Day 1

    A big first day of the Australian Junior Championships today at QE2 with visitors from all round Australia and one of them was former Ashgrove Rangers coach Robbie Bolton who moved to the AIS as a scholarship coach under Dick Telford in the late 1990s. After a stint in Wollongong Robbie now resides back in…

  • Darren Thrupp Shield 2023

    Darren Thrupp Shield 2023

    Our throwers have been a force all season and ended on a high note at the final Shield meet at QE2, the Darren Thrupp Shield. Carl Martin (2nd Open Discus – 42.95 PB), Hamish Middleton (5th Open Discus – 41.32m) and Adrian Keen (1st Masters Discus – 40.29m) led the way along with April Laurikaanen…