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  • Norma Croker Shield 2025

    Norma Croker Shield 2025

    A solid day’s competition for us at the Norma Croker Shield at QE2 today with just the sort of depth of teamwork we need to improve going forward across a good range of events including 100m, 800m, Long Jump and Sprint Hurdles from our athletes. Highlights included 2nd place to Genesis S’Au in U18 Discus…

  • Queensland Trail Festival 2025

    Queensland Trail Festival 2025

    Not for the first time we pulled off the trick of performing at two places at once today with our team of Matthew Higgins, Michael Higgins, Greg Webster and Glenn Kerrison finishing fourth in the Qld Trail Festival 4 x 3k Relay at Victoria Park and Ciaran Barry also contesting a very hot and hilly…

  • Alana Boyd Shield 2025

    There were some big performances today at the Alana Boyd Shield by our athletes as the season really starts to kick in ahead of the State Championships in March at QE2 and Nationals in Perth in April. April Laurikanen second in the Open Shot Put with 11.99m and Aidan Dallinger a PB of 13.85m to…

  • Glynis Nunn Shield 2025

    Glynis Nunn Shield 2025

    An epic finish to the Open Men’s Decathlon today at the Glynis Nunn Shield at QE2 saw Connor Duggan pull out all stops in the final event the 1500m to hang on to the Silver Medal as 2nd Queenslander and 4th overall with 6055 points. The weather was again tricky with a wet track but…

  • New Year’s Eve Resolution Run 2025

    New Year’s Eve Resolution Run 2025

    A really fun event tonight with the Ernies at the annual Wild Earth Resolution Run at Carrara. The weather was very humid but at least we avoided storms which was great given the tempest that arrived later in the evening after last years event. Looking at some of these results we actually fared pretty well…

  • 2024 Final Thoughts

    2024 Final Thoughts

    With 2024 about to be consigned to the history books, it’s timely to look back on what I think was a very good year for Ashgrove Rangers. Our club’s purpose is officially to promote the sport of athletics in our local area and hopefully we provided a wide range of opportunities for our members of…

  • Christmas Meet 2024

    Christmas Meet 2024

    Every good athletics club needs to know how to let its hair down and have a bit of fun at Christmas time after a hectic year. In fact, the wet weather and conditions seemed to just make our annual Christmas Meet even better as a bunch of colourful Ashgrove Athletics identities gathered tonight at The…

  • Garry Brown Shield/1500m Classic 2024

    After another day of shifty weather yesterday, UQ Athletic Club would be relieved that the Garry Brown Shield/1500m Classic Mile events finally went ahead because if postponed again we might have been celebrating the 71st birthday of the 4 Minute Mile. Aidan Dallinger shaved another 0.01 seconds off his 100m PB getting down to 11.12…

  • Benita Willis Shield 2024

    At the Benita Willis Shield/State 5k meet at QE2 we had a very strong overall team performance. We had heaps of depth in the sprints through excellent representation where Aidan Dallinger recorded PBs in both 100m (11.13) and in his 200m Heat into a headwind 22.78. Sam Shaw was second in the Under 14 100mm…