NEWS
It was fantastic to see a strong turn out from our red and black army for Playoff 1 at Tom Kelly Athletics Track on Saturday....
What a blockbuster weekend for our U20 and Open athletes! With 35 Open and 14 U20 athletes in action, it was fantastic representation from our...
Wow, what a weekend for our junior athletes! With just over 60 athletes representing the club at the Victorian Track & Field Championships (U14-U18), it...
As the mercury tipped over 31°C, Melbourne’s athletics community converged on Lakeside Stadium creating a hype that hadn’t been felt since Usain Bolt visited in...
There was plenty of excitement as Australia hosted it’s first World Athletics Cross Country Championships. There was plenty of buzz in the lead up to...
This weekend saw the AVSL home & away rounds conclude at the infamous Keilor Park. Despite the constant stream of planes interrupting the flow of...
This weekend saw six Essendon athletes take on some of America’s best track & field athletes at the Simplot Games at Holt Arena at Idaho...
Two days of fun in the Doncaster sun for our 40+ members produced many PBs and lots of medals. This year the championship included a...
The On Victorian Milers Club returned to Melbourne's west with Athletics Essendon, hosting Meet 4 which featured the John Higham 800m and the 107th Men's...
The risk of activating our Powerplay in the second last round of the home and away season paid off with the club recording a massive...
This week a large number of Essendon athletes made the trek out to John Landy Athletics Field to compete at the Steigen Victorian Country Athletics...
AVSL for 2023 began with a bang with three club records falling in a matter of hours. Congratulations to Kevin Healy on adding a 7th...
Whilst the majority of us enjoyed a weekend at the beach or at home with the air-conditioning at full blast 10 of our athletes were...
We’re officially back! AVSL Round 7 marked the return of inter-club competition to Aberfeldie after the flooding in October and we couldn’t have asked for...
Congratulations to all of our athletes that represented Victoria over the weekend at the 2022 Chemist Warehouse Australian All Schools Track & Field Championships in...
Former club member, the late Peter Norman, was overnight honoured with the prestigious “The Dawn” Award at the 2022 Sports Australia Hall of Fame Awards:...
It took six rounds, but we finally hit our first 30+ degree competition for the 2022/23 season. As we’ve now past the midpoint of the...
Congratulations to all our athletes who represented the club yesterday at the 2022 Victorian Track Relay Championships at Hagenauer Reserve in Box Hill. It was...
The Melbourne weather threw ferocious gusts of wind, arctic blasts and rain, but none of that could contend with the determination of the athletes to...
It was a big weekend for Athletics Essendon with both the Essendon Gift and Round 4 of AVSL taking place. Now we are into the...
On Saturday night the inaugural Essendon Gift kicked off the 2022/23 Victorian Athletic League season. With a huge 475 entries it was an action-packed evening....
By Sarah Mullens It was another stellar weekend of throwing from Athletics Essendon's dedicated throws crew. Still minus Matt Makin, and missing crew admin Sarah...
With the presentations for XCR’22 cancelled due to flooding at the track and AVSL season now underway, it’s time to look back and acknowledge the...
