XCR ROUND 9 – BURNLEY
Congratulations to the following athletes who ran XCR 9 5km Road at Burley:
Female Open
Janine Higham 24:12
Maggie Armstrong 27:20
Female 20
🥉 Sarah Fitzpatrick 18:17
9th Ellie Kays 20:36
Female 18
6th Lauren Hanna 18:14
Female 16
🥉 Isabelle Kays 19:19
Male Open
Phillip Barret 18:54
Stephen Murphy 29:10
Male 20
🥇 Charles Barrett 14:46
6th James Cruse 15:26
19th Samual Duncan 16:24
Male 18
🥉 Jonathan Neethling 15:07
15th Aiden Davis 16:32
22nd Hamish MacLaren 16:59
27th Oliver Anthony 17:30
Male 16
6th Noah Tarallo 16:37 18th
Andre Faure 17:48
Congratulations to the following athletes who ran XCR 21.1km Road at Burley:
Male Open
4th Liam Adams 1:05:01
Ben Rowse 1:21:00
Matthew Sostaric 1:25:04
Danny Hawksworth 1:37:24
John Thompson 1:55:15
Female Open
21st Charlotte Wilson 1:26:56
Jennifer Mendes 1:37:16
Louisa Cochrane 1:48:41
Well done everyone! Hope you all enjoyed your run and morning!
This was also fantastic points for both individual athletes towards AV XCR Champion athlete for the season, but also the ladders for Team premiership.
Even more congratulations to our Athletics Victoria XCR Season Champion Athletes!
🏆 U20 Charlie Barrett
🏆 U18 Jonty Neethling
Also, special mention to these AE juniors who also finished in the Top 10 athletes in their age groups.
- James Cruse
- Lara Sacaner
- Sarah Fitzpatrick
- Miles Thompson
- Archer Bramble
- Isabelle Kays
- Isabella Howley
What an amazing season you have all had!!
PRE-SEASON LAUNCH EVENT
Please join us on Tuesday, 1 October after training for a BBQ dinner to celebrate the launch of the summer season! This will be a casual, fun event to socialise with fellow members, squads and friends alike!
Please RSVP to secretary@athleticsessendon.org.au
UPCOMING TEMPORARY TRACK CLOSURE
Please note that the track is going to be temporarily closed for repairs & upgrades as early as this Monday, 16 September ahead of the upcoming summer season for no more than 5 days.
We are still waiting for confirmation from Council as to the exact dates.
As soon as we confirm dates of the closure, it will be communicated to membership.
THE BURKE-STOBAUS RELAY CHALLENGE
On Saturday 21 September 2024, the annual Burke-Stobaus Relay Challenge is taking place to honour two of the greats of Athletics Essendon & Keilor St Bernard’s Athletics Clubs, Bill Burke & Ron Stobaus.
Time: 2pm for 2.30pm race start
Venue: Coulson Gardens, Chifley Drive, Maribyrnong
Distance: 4.1km x 4 runners per team (one lap of the river)
Join us for a friendly run & a BBQ afterwards with our nearest athletics neighbours! Food & drink kindly supplied.
Please contact AE’s Danny Hawksworth if you would like to take part – dannyhawk@hotmail.com
CALLING BOMBER FANS
AFLW FRIDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER – ESSENDON V MELBOURNE
A very exciting opportunity from Essendon Football Club has presented itself.
We have been asked to volunteer some members to participate in a Guard of Honour at the upcoming Essendon v Melbourne AFLW game at Windy Hill on Friday, 27 September 2024 (Public Holiday)!
Ideally juniors, and we would love to see some girls!! Any Bombers interested, please email us at
secretary@athleticsessendon.org.au
NEW MEMBER OFFER FOR JUNIORS
AVSL SEASON 2024/25
The summer season of track & field commences in the first week of October 2024. There will be 10 rounds of AVSL this season with MVAC hosting the following dates –
- R1 – 5 October
- R5 – 16 November
- R8 – 18 January
- R10 – 8 February
It’s time to get those summer memberships sorted as you have a month from today to get your athletes re-registered for the upcoming season!
REACH OUT
Please don’t hesitate to reach out if there is anything we missed, by sending our secretary Rebecca an email at secretary@athleticsessendon.org.au.
