St Albans Athletics Club

Results for the NYAL at Bedford of the 6th May and the Herts Champs on the 12/13th May at Watford have been posted in the Results  area.

We urgently need more helpers for Sunday. Especially if you have athletes competing can you try and make yourselves available for a hours or so or even half a day. 
We need:-
- A team to help put up all the tents and set up the tea tent 9.30 till about 11.00
- A team to help put everything away at the end 4.45 – 6pm – tents, tables BBQ
- 2+ people to welcome our guests to the site. Welcome them - Check if they are correctly parked, show them where the changing and toilets are, where to put their tents, where our tea tent is, where to weigh in their shots and Javelins, the officials and scores tent… 10.30 till just after 12.00.
- Key jobs to act as Marksman. That is helping the starter get the athletes lined up. Either all day 12 – 5 or possibly 12 to 2.30 or 2.30 to 5.
- Markers assistant – helping the Marker.
- Helping in the field with an event – racking the sand pits or putting the bar back on the high jump.
- To act as runner between the officials at the end of the straight and the scorers tent, ad hoc all day taking the scorers cards say every 20 minutes.
- Relieving the tea tent for an hour
- Relieving the recorders assistant for an hour. 
- Watching from outside the barriers to support some of the younger athletes who Chris and Tim feel might need some extra hand holding.
- Litter picking.  
- Acting as a photographer so we have pictures of our athletes for presentation and for them to enjoy.
- Cheering the athletes on. 

I know many of you may already be helping but anyone else dropping off, picking up or just watching we can find something for you to help with. 
 
Please give me an email if you can help @ peter_poulain@staac.org.uk

Peter
Vice Chair & Operations.

This Sunday (20th May) sees the second of this season’s NYAL league event.

This event is a home match being held at Westminster Lodge and will include A & B string competitors for each event (no non-scorers at NYAL events).

As always Y6 to Y11 club members are eligible to compete for the club in this event. Please see Fixtures for a draft list of names of athletes that have been
selected for Sunday’s team. If your name is listed you are not able to make this match please make every effort to let Tim Higman or Chris James know as soon as
possible, in order give other athletes a chance to complete in your place. 

As always the club is very keen to hear from any parents/ carers who are able to help out on the day. This could range from putting up the tents and getting the track ready from 9.30 am to putting them away at 5.30 after it has all finished. During the day you can help with the tea tent, raking sandpits, helping the time keepers, helping the official scorers, welcoming our guest teams........... as well as cheering on the whole team on. Anyone able to help in any of these areas please contact Peter Poulain.

We aim to meet in the morning, trackside by 10:30 to allocate numbers and confirm all events.

Any queries about this match please don’t hesitate to speak with Tim or Chris.

Please see the Results area of the club website for the Scoring results for this match. Non-Scoring results will be included as soon as they come available.
Also refer to the Photos area of the club website for a link to professional photographer Gary Mitchell who took photos at this meet.

Notice of Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of St Albans Athletic Club will he held on Wednesday 16th May 2012 at 7.30pm
at the Old Albanian Rugby Club
Woollam’s Playing Fields, AL3 6BB

Please make every effort to attend.

This coming Sunday (6th May) sees the first of this season’s NYAL league event.

This event is being held at Bedford with a coach (transport) leaving Westminster Lodge by 09:30 Sunday morning (£2 per athlete/ £5 per parent).

Similar to last week’s EYAL event, Y6 to Y11 club members are eligible to compete for the club. Unlike last week’s EYAL event, this event does not include non-scoring participants, so only 2 athletes in each age group can compete (A string & B string). Please can you check the lists below for your name and do let Tim or I know if you are not able to take part in this event. If you can confirm by Thu/Fri of this week it would help greatly.

You can either Reply to this email or speak with us (or Sue and Debbie) as to whether you are available to take part in this match.

Tim Higman (NYAL Team Manager) can be contacted on 07703 555702.

Info for parents driving to Bedford; it is 38 miles each way and takes approximately 45 minutes.

Address:- Barker's Lane  Bedford, Bedford Borough MK41 9SB.

Chris James (EYAL Team Manager)

A huge thank you to everyone who helped on Sunday at our first home meeting putting up and taking down the tents, manning the tea tent, officiating the events, recording all the scores,  Leisure Connection for their help, Families for supporting, Coaches, Team Managers and of course the team itself for competing all under inches of rain. Well done everyone. A magnificent effort!!!  

Next home match NYAL 20th May. Please put it in your diary.

Next away match 6th May NYAL Bedford watch the noticeboard or emails for an update.

It’s the start of the Track & Field session with this Sunday (29th April) being the first match for
the EYAL  league.
This event is being held at our home track at Westminster Lodge and includes non-scoring events as well as scoring events, so all Yr6 to Yr11 club members are welcome to compete for the club and try up to three events if they wish.
Anyone wishing to compete this weekend needs to be at 
Westminster Lodge by 10:30 on Sunday morning to confirm who’s doing which events.
Please confirm via e-mail t&f_coaches@staac.org.uk to Tim Higman or myself whether you can compete in this event or not by Friday 27th April (This Friday!).
For details of the timetable of events please see the link in Fixtures, on the club website, under Track & Field.
For details of EYAL please see the EYAL website.
Any questions about this event, feel free to contact us at the e-mail address above or speak to us.
Chris James

Congratulations to Debbie Steer, for finishing in front of 36,000 other competitors in a time of 3hrs and 4 mins which I believe was seven and half minutes faster than last year's and a fantastic 4th in class placing!
Also to James McMurray who finished the minimarathon in 5th place and 5th in class - an improvement of four places on last year's finish.
Well done to you both - the Club is very proud of you.

I apologise to anyone else from the Club who took part and hope you did well, but I only saw those two club members come through!  If you did compete, please let us know how you did.

Lynne Milner
Chairman

Parents, guardians and friend we urgently need your help again for the fast approaching home match on Sunday 29th April.
It is hoped that everyone will make a small contribution to the day if their child is selected and competes. That can range from putting up the tents and getting the track ready from 9.30 am to putting them away at 5.30 after it has all finished. During the day you can help with the tea tent, raking sandpits, helping the time keepers, helping the official scorers, welcoming our guest teams........... as well as cheering on the whole team on. Please email me on peter@apjobs.net with an idea of the times you are available and your contact numbers. 
Further to the home match if you want to become more involved we can give you structured UKA training to help with officiating, timekeeping or coaching - all are very rewarding and help the club tremedously.

If it is not your bag we have a new container that is going to need racking out and sorting / listing all our equipment. If that takes your fancy also let me know.