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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

What a fun afternoon we had at Jack Cook Park for touch football this afternoon with Toowong Harriers in what turned out to be a terrific social event between our two local athletic communities. Toowong were camped near the Ashgrove try line for most of the second half but the Green Machine defence somehow held… Read More

Tony Usher joined Ashgrove Rangers in the early 1990s after growing up in Rockhampton.He was a fixture in many of our great road relay wins in the 1990s and also produced handy performances on the track at distances from 800m through to 10k. His smart approaches of barefoot running in Cross Country events and keeping… Read More