Author: John Purcell
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South Burnett Express 2023 Entries Open!
Entries for the South Burnett Express Rail Trail Relay are now open ! Sunday 30th April Teams of 5 – 8 will battle it out over 60km of relay legs from Kingaroy to Wondai and return. The concept is simple, one person per team will run a leg along the rail trail (average ~5km per…
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Sally Pearson Shield 2023
Another inspiring day at the Sally Pearson Shield at QE2 today with the day getting off to a great start when Sam Luff took the Open Shot Put in a National qualifying throw of 14.90m and our depth in the event showing through with Adrian Keen, Phil Lock, Connor Duggan and John Purcell all involved…
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Denise Boyd Shield 2023
Another huge meet at the Denise Boyd Shield today at QE2 which was the second largest QA Shield Meet ever with a whopping 640 competitors. Conditions were tough early with a very unpredictable wind in the sprints, hurdles and 800m but things improved later with the 3000m events. In what was truly nail-biting stuff, 3…
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Reflection on 60 Years
Here’s the scene today at Dorrington Park. Ashgrove – the club’s original training ground when it started in 1962 – on the last day of 2022, our 60th Anniversary year. It was such a strong year all round with special mention having to go to the efforts of Paul Circosta and Graham Barralet in compiling…
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Three Cheers!
Final session of training with a very enthusiastic bunch of athletes at The Gap High tonight and I think a great time to acknowledge the efforts through the year of three of the biggest hands-on contributors to our club in Gary Morrisby, Cam Pfeffer and Ken Hastie. Gary is a former Centre Manager and driving…
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Parliament House Lunch
Today Tully Schweitzer, Tiana Solley, Joel Drew, Daniel Drew, Lee Martin and Connor Campbell and Club President Dan Murray joined our Club Patron Jonty Bush – Member for Cooper, for lunch and a tour of Queensland Parliament House. The occasion was to celebrate members’ achievements particularly those who have recently competed at a national level…
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Track and Field Relays 2022
Certainly the proudest day in our Throws history today with 8 our 12 Gold medals coming from those events at the State ‘Field and Track’ Relays at QE2 today. In Shot Put we took Open Women’s and U18, Open and 50 plus Men’s. In Discus we took U18, U20, Open and 50 Plus Men’s. We…
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Relay Legends
If the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena then a lot of credit for our Track and Field Relay successes in the past ten years must go to Adrian Keen. Seen here in 2016 after a repeat 100m Masters victory with Marty Lane, David Pfeffer and Brendan Purcell, Adrian has…
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UQ 1500m Classic – 2022
The UQ 1500m Classic is always a top meet and even though the Uq track being out of action forced it to QE2 there were some great performances. Tate Van Camp 4.20.32 12 years Boys A and Laura Bray 12 years Girls B 4.58.09 both set records and PBs in winning their events (6 second…
