NEWS

Weekly Wrap February 7th 2025

February 7, 2025
10:06 pm

IN THIS ISSUE

HVC/AVT Meet #2 results
AVSL R9 Roundup
On Vic Milers Meet #3
AV & AE Records broken – Ela Uzun does it again!
“Share The Dignity” & Vic Uni survey – please help with answering 🙂
Upcoming – AV States & Specialist meets galore!

HIGH VELOCITY/AVT Meet #2, DONCASTER, 30/1/25

Last Thursday, 13 Athletics Essendon members competed at Doncaster in the High Velocity events on offer. Well done to all.

FOP

100m – Amanda Wrout – 12.47 (+0.0)
400m – Zara Smith – 58.79, Charlotte Gray – 63.78, Elodie Moore – 66.02
HJ – Olivia Evagelistis – 1.50m
LJ – Amanda Wrout – 4.94m (+0.0)

MOP

100m – Owen Veltman – 11.23 (2.2), Hyuga Nishimura – 11.44 (-1.3), Matthew Hosie – 11.72 (NW)
400m – Hyuga Nishimura – 49.47, Marcus Guglielmino – 50.93, Owen Veltman – 52.11, Jesse Lumby – 53.83, Sebastian Moore – 56.70, Xavier Walsh – 59.07, Louis Smith – 62.09
LJ – Alexander Carroll – 5.61m (+0.0)
200mH – Louis Smith – 32.49 (-0.4)

If you are keen to enter any HV/AVT meets in the future, there are a further three comps scheduled in March (see calendar below). They are a great opportunity to get some more races under your belt, especially with the Australian Championships in Perth, April 5-13, 2025.

AVSL, ROUND 9, 01/02/25!

More impressive results after our second last round of Shield for the 24/25 season! Athletes competed across all five venues on offer – Ballarat, Bendigo, Doncaster, Geelong & Murrumbeena. Here’s some results to celebrate -:

Aths Essendon MVA ladder, top 10, after 9 rounds –

1st; Ella Leith F16, 7,876 points
2nd; Kristian Lakusa M50, 7,601 points
3rd; Armani Mauriohooho F16, 7,513 points
4th; Marlon Cummings M45, 6,082 points
5th; Maggie Armstrong F60, 5,584 points
6th; Dash Newton M20, 5,525 points
7th; Olivia Evagelistis F16, 4,882 points
8th; Danny Hawksworth M45, 4,662 points
9th; Lucas Harris M16, 4,455 points
10th; Estelle Sacco F16, 4,196 points

450+ points for an individual event –

Ela Uzun F14, 3000m Walk – 13:23.0 – 493 points (AV & AE RECORD!)
Lillian Micallef F16, TJ – 11.43m – 471 points (ANOTHER NQ)
Nina Lawson FOP, 100m – 11.82 (2.8) – 468 points
Matthias Foliaki M14, 100m – 11.71 (0.2) – 457 points
Linda Caligiuri F60, 100m – 14.73 (2.3) – 454 points
Elodie Moore F14, 400m – 63.10 – 453 points

Congratulations to you all & we look forward to seeing more of these magnificent results when we contest the last round of the season on Saturday, Feb 8 when AE is playing their POWERPLAY for double Premiership points!! Let’s finish with a bang! As always, a big, heartfelt thank you to Neil & Deborah Lawson, our awesome officials, who earn our Club a handy 600 points each, for officiating week in, week out. Incredible effort & we appreciate your continual contribution & for helping to make each week of competition possible 😊

If you haven’t yet been able to sign up for any volunteer duties, now is the time to get those hours up!! R10 is at Aberfeldie so if you can spare an hour or two to help out, we would be most grateful as there are plenty of slots left to fill. Please sign up here! ttps://athsess.azurewebsites.net/helperlogin

ON VIC MILERS MEET #4, ABERFELDIE, 06/02/25

What a night of racing last night at Aberfeldie! It was warm with very little breeze, perfect for fast racing! AE members featured in the top 3 placings of many of the heats with two athletes in the black & red, in each of the top seeded mile races. We would like to thank all those that put their hand up to help the night run smoothly & congratulate every athlete on their performance.

MILE

Mens Race A – Charles Barrett – 2nd – 4:03.96 & Finley Symons – 8th – 4:09.42
Womens Race A – Bianca Puglisi – 6th – 4:54.49 & Lara Sacaner – 9th – 4:57.79
Race C – Isabelle Kays – 3rd – 5:16.40
Race D – Allison Rogers – 2nd – 5:32.62
Race F – Patrick Kavanagh – 3rd – 4:39.64
Race G – Aidan Clarke – 2nd – 4:47.26
Race J – William Tranter – 2nd – 5:14.00

800m

Race B – Zara Smith – 2nd – 2:18.10
Race E – Charlotte Gray – 1st – 2:21.03
Race G – Javier Lama – 3rd – 2:03.26
Race J – Samual Duncan – 1st – 2:05.90
Race K – Xavier Walsh – 2nd – 2:12.23
Race L – Vobbama Gunalan – 3rd – 2:15.75
Race M – Henry Parker – 1st – 2:24.91

Next milers is on Thursday, March 13th at Doncaster.

ELA UZUN IS UNSTOPPABLE! MORE RECORDS FALL…

Superstar powerhouse, Ela Uzun continues to smash the race walk records at AE & at State level. Last Saturday at Doncaster, Ela blitzed the 3000m walk with a time of 13:26.0 (collecting her & the Club a massive 493 points). This eclipsed the AV U14 & U15 state records aswell as breaking all 3000m walk records at AE for women U14 to Open! This is not Ela’s first time breaking records this season & we can’t wait to see what she has in store for us come States & Nationals!! Go Team Ela, we are so proud of you!

PLEASE HELP US TO HELP YOU & OTHERS BY COMPLETING THIS QUICK SURVEY

A survey on free period products at our club

As part of the Clubs partnership with ELAC and Council to install the complimentary Period Product Dispenser in the women’s changing rooms we would like to encourage our athletes, parents and team managers to take 10 mins to support this piece of important research.

What impact does free period products at our club have for people who menstruate? Does it help eliminate a barrier to participating in athletics?

Share the Dignity and researchers at Victoria University are keen to understand whether free period products help reduce anxiety when playing sport. Findings from this national survey will assist to guide government and sports to drive change. We welcome people who menstruate to complete the following 10 min survey https://vuau.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9HVTHGcsrRJ2IN8

THANKYOU!! 😊

UPCOMING EVENTS – AV STATES & AV SPECIALIST MEETS

REMINDER that entries have closed for Weekend 1 of AV States (U17 – U20 & Overage) Feb 14-16, however you have until NEXT MONDAY, FEB 10 (MIDDAY) to get your entries in for Weekend 2, Feb 21-23 (U13-16 & Open). If you have already achieved a National Qualifier in any event, you MUST COMPETE AT AV STATES TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR NATIONALS (not including Heptathlon & Decathlon). You can also achieve a NQ by medalling at States if you haven’t achieved the NQ yet. ENTER STATE CHAMPS HERE!

There are also a few specialist meets in March to make sure your training is honed for Nationals in April! Please see the calendar below for the dates of these High Velocity, Throwers, Rare Air & Milers meets.

FINALLY, BEST OF LUCK TO EVERYONE FOR THE FINAL ROUND OF AVSL THIS WEEKEND!!!