Congratulations to ASR members on a week of excellent performances, Some of the highlights were:

* Don Wallace and Nickey Carroll’s team set a new record in the Kokoda Challenge Trail Race in the Gold Coast Hinterland. Glenn Barltrop, Cassie Brown and Connor Stanton also competed in the event.

* Hamish Granger was selected in the Queensland Team for the National Cross Country Championships after finishing fifth in the State Titles last Saturday. Tim Gibson has also been selected in the State Team.

* At the World University Orienteering Championships Rachel Effeney represented Australia well in a number of events with her best result being 25th place in the Sprint event, only dropping down from 6th place in the last four minutes of the event.

* At the Nickey Carroll Shield meet at St Paul’s Hubertien Wichers, Lisa O’Donovan and Lynda Bateson made it a trifecta in taking out the individual and teams results in the Masters Women’s 4k Championship. Ron Peters won the Men’s 50+ while Daryl Crook finished in fourth placing in the Open Men’s. Osman Saleh also set a new PB of

21.38 in the 6k event.

* At The Gap High School’s athletics carnival there were a number of good efforts from club athletes. Among those who recorded victories that I was able to come across were:

Tim Hurley - Open Boys 100m, 200m and 400m Heat

Tim Gibson - Open Boys 400m Heat

Alex Dalzell - Open Boys 800m (2.09) and 1500m (4.41)

Eleanor Dalzell - 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m (Dead-Heat)

Jared Easterbrook and Josh Gibson also performed well across a number of events, with the 800m and 1500m being highlights for Jared.

* At the World Junior Athletics Championships former club member Adrian Plummer has made it through to the semi-finals of the 800m with a clocking of 1.50.0. Adrian and his coach Bill Francis worked extensively over the years with some of our key support people like physio Michael Dalgleish and podiatrist Ash Mahoney. In an environment where distance runners in Australia have tended to be pretty nonchalant about the importance of strength work, the dedication that Adrian showed in this area as a younger athlete appears to now be paying full dividiends. Adrian joined the Gold Coast club where he lives a couple of years ago after being a member of Ashgrove for a number of years.

John

DATE: Saturday 19 June 2010
VENUE: Payne Rd State School After School Care building - access via Kernell St
TIME: 4.45 pm

The Club will hold an athletic event for members at 4 pm at Payne Rd State School before the AGM - details TBA; and a game of “trivia” will be played immediately after the AGM.

Nomination for Committee
Any financial member of the Club may be nominated to serve on the 2010-2011 committee by any two other financial members of the Club using the form below.

Nominations must be lodged with the Secretary by 5 June 2010. Signed nominations may be sent by email (pdf) to the secretary.

If there are no nominations for a position (or in the case of other committee member positions, insufficient nominations), nominations will be called for from the floor at the AGM.

Nomination Form

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Pat Carroll Shield at Carseldine on the weekend.   Ashgrove finished in third place behind Athletics North

and UQ, which was a reasonable effort in the final Shield event of the Cross Country season.

Final Pointscore was:

1. Athletics North 195

2. UQ 130

3. Ashgrove Rangers 108

4. Thompson Estate 94

5. QE2 52

6. QMA 32

7. Galeforce 26

8. Gold Coast Victory 22

9. Caboolture 21

10. Intraining 21

11. Runaway Bay 19

12. Toowong Harriers 14

13. Townsville North Star 10

14. Jimboomba 8

There is a lot coming up over the next week:

• The AGM, 19 June, at the Norths Hockey club in Ashgrove (see on the right hand side under ’bulletin’).  Be there at 6pm, then you can also put in your pizza order ($6 per pizza).  Pizzas will be picked up at about 6:30.  The sports trivia night starts at 7pm, entry $5 for individuals and $10 for families.  You are also welcome to bring a plate or nibbles to share. Apart from members, friends and family of Ashgrove Rangers are welcome to have pizza and play trivia as well.
• The next day is the Pat Carroll Cross Country Shield at Carseldine, which hosts championship events including the 12,000m.  For more information see here.
• Then on Monday night 22 June we have special evening with a guest speaker to which coaches and ASR members are invited. Andrea Furst is a Sports Psychologist and will speak about some of the essential secrets to perform well!  This will be held at The Gap State High School shed after training at 7:30.

Come along and have some fun at the annual ASR Club Gift. To be held on 6th April at The Gap State High School, the event promises to be lots of fun with the premier events ‘The Mile’ and ‘100 yards’ strongly contested. Bring the family and relax after the events with a BBQ dinner.