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Winter Information

2010

Bundoora Park - Saturday 17 July

Thank you to everyone who assisted on Saturday either in the canteen, on the BBQ, on course or preparing for the day. It was a very big day for the club and we survived.

Thanks Patrick for some photos from the men's open and women's U20 races and Jenny for the BBQ shots. See all photos in the photo gallery.

Ben winning the Run Melbourne half marathon - Sunday 18 July

Snaps from Ballarat Rd 5

Well what a great XCR rd5 we had with 4 of our girls braving the cold at Ballarat for the 5km run.

RESULTS:
Under 14's - Ally-Rose Ogden 5th, Kirsten Walburg 9th, Kendra Jewell 10th, a great effort and the team came 1st.

Under 16's - Ashlee Walburg 19th.

Bronwyn Walburg

Thanks for the snaps Edward & Jacqui Ogden.

XC10 after round 3

Hi Everyone

Well round 3 is over and what a great day we had at Sandown, no rain this year. yeh!!!

The Under 14 & 16's were first up running 3km one lap of the track.

In our under 14's Charlotte, Megan and Kirsten all got PB's and a team 1st, Chow ran for the first time with an excellent time.

Our under 16's had Ashlee running and for the boys first timers James and Larry, who all came home strongly.

In under 18's Rachel ran for a first time and ran well, I hope she enjoyed herself.

Then Tommy and some of us stayed to watch the old timers run, the 10km. (you wont ever see me do that!)

But hats off to Kate, who between feeds of her 3mth old, managed to make 10km look easy, by talking to Charmaine the whole way round. Claire, who last year only had to do 3km's, did a great effort to extend it to 10km's this year. We had another lass do the 10km but I didnt get her name. For the men Adrian, Roderic, William and in under 20's Nathan all did the club proud.

Some photos attached.

Well guys our next race is Saturday the 19 June 2010, Lake Wendouree, Ballarat.

This is a 5km Junior race and 15km scenic race for the rest.

You can enter online at www.athsvic.org.au if you haven't got a season ticket already.

Will see you all around the track or at a comp.

Cheers,

Bronwyn Walburg
Team Manager u14's & u16's

Thank you to all the helpers at Bunnings. This is one of our major fund raisers for the year and we are grateful to Bunnings Nunawading for their support. Please support Bunnings whenever you can.

Round 1 - Jells Park

U14 girls team 1 - came Second
Isabella Dalla costa
Charlotte Bassett ( pb )
Megan Pengelly ( pb )

U14 girls team 2 - no result as only two runners
Sarah Fitt
Kirsten Walburg (pb)

U16 girls team - came six with tough competition
Natalie Rule
Ashlee Walburg (pb)
Sarah Woodgate

U16 boys team - came ninth
Yuan Lui
Mathew Woodgate
James Wang

It was Yuan, Mathew, Sarah and Sarah's first year at Jells so a big thank you for coming down and I hope you all enjoyed your day.

Cheers Bronwyn
Team Manager u14& u16 girls

Season Calendar - CLICK HERE

Season Gradings - CLICK HERE

2009

National Cross Country Trials

The Australian cross country trials to select a team to attend the world championships in Poland in March were held over the weekend at Victoria's Brimbank Park.

Doncaster was represented in the Open Women's 8km race by Fiona Nash while Grace Thek lined up in the women's Under 20 6km event. Grace finished 2nd in her race and has now been selected to represented Australia at the world championships. This will be Grace's first full National representation.

Fiona Nash looked extremely good passing through 4km in a lead group that included former world champion Benita Willis, Zatopek winner Elouise Wellings and several national representatives. Shortly afterwards however Fiona stepped in a hole rolling her ankle and was then forced to withdraw from the race.

Congratulations to Grace who becomes the 3rd Doncaster athlete coached by Patrick Ashkettle to make an Australian world championship team in as many years.

U14 Girls are Superstars and Winter Premiers for 2009

Thanks to team manager superstar Bronwyn Walburg for the photos (full size photos are in the Photo Gallery)

XC09 Calendar Gradings

Thanks to all those parents who have volunteered to be Winter team managers for 2009. If you want to run in any of the cross country races or relays please contact your team manager:

If the cross country event is a relay then DAC enters teams and pays the entrance fee. If it is an individual event you are responsible for entering and paying for yourself.

Women

U14 and U16 Bronwyn Walburg (Ph: 0407 325 850) bronashkirst@hotmail.com

U18 Chris Gange (Ph: 0432 991 211)

U20 Sam Carberry (Ph 0433 293 641)

Open Kate Downward (Ph: 0384 708 341)

Men

Open Patrick Ashkettle (Ph: 0408 037 009) pr_ashe@hotmail.com (preferred contact is via email)

U14 Will Power (Ph: 0438 223 101)

U16 and U18 Chris Gange (Ph: 0432 991 211)

Winter video from the Walburg's

Hi Guys hopes this works, the girls and I have put together some photos of the season and turned it into a small movie with music (Ashlee's choices) If you have windows media player it will work, photos look a little distorted due to cheap camera and translation into photo story. Hope you all enjoy it, Ashlee did do a 20 minute version but we have down sized to under 8 minutes so we could email it . . . . click here

Enjoy Bronwyn, Ashlee and Kirsten.

This photo story was created using Photo Story 3 for Windows. You can view it with Windows Media Player or any program that plays Windows Media Video (WMV) files.

National Cross Country Championships Update and Insight

Extract of Chris' email to Kate.

Patrick (Goodwill) ran really well given what has happened to him in recent times, but more importantly, the whole team ran well and they picked up 1st place from the W.A. and NSW schools teams. The team is now off to the World's......

It was a day of amazing contrasts, nice cool weather early when Natalie Rule ran (3rd), pouring rain prior and during the first lap of Pat's race, clearing for Grace's race (1st), warming up for Fiona's (3rd) and then hot and sunny for Joel's (2nd). The finish area looked like a war zone for the last two races which included Joel's, kids collapsing everywhere. The paramedics and others were flat out keeping up.

The four individual medalists from DAC were each fantastic performances in their own way, and whilst is it probably wrong to pick one out, Grace's win was brilliant, it really was special and the fact that our Pat also collected a gold medal, albeit a team one was great...Grace and Pat giving high fives and hugs to each other was one of many highlights. To see so many kids smiling was just fantastic.

So a great weekend was had by many Vic's.

Chris Goodwill

Emails from Patrick Ashkettle

Saturday 29 August 1:33p.m.

Just letting you know that about 30 mins ago Grace Thek (Doncaster AC) won the Under 20 women's 6km national cross country title in Nowra NSW.

Grace ran around 21.45 for the wet hilly 2 lap course with second place running around 22.20.

Saturday 7:35p.m.

After my perusal of results it looks like we had just 4 people at cross country nationals in Nowra NSW and everyone of them won a medal!!

Here are the results. The girls U16 and U18 results aren't up yet.

Grace Thek, women's under 20 6km 1st place, 21.46

Joel Tobin-White, boys under 16 4km 2nd place, 13.12.25

Fiona Nash, women's open 8km, 3rd place, 30.22

Natalie Rule, women's under 14 3km, 3rd place, 10.42.36

We think that Joel's race had something at stake with a schools team being selected for an overseas competition.

Fiona Nash, who won the state cross country title at Bundoora this year, begins to put herself in contention for the Australian team to contest the world cross country championships in Poland next year.

Likewise for Grace. Grace in fact finished 6th this year at the national trials in Canberra which meant that she had made the selection cut off. However the selectors elected to just send a team of 4 instead of the expected 6. So this is a good step towards selection.

Patrick

Winter Update for our Junior Girls from Bronwyn Walburg

wow! What a couple of months we have had. It started with the All schools at Bundoora.

94 runners in the U14 division - Laura 1st, Natalie 4th, Isabella 34th, Ashlee 43rd, Megan 46th, Ally Rose 63rd, Kirsten 84th

73 Runners U15 division - Courtney 45th

Then we had STATE SCHOOLS CROSS COUNTRY Bundoora, and a lot of us had to turn up two days later for the VLAA state cross country.

Doncaster girls did very well.

Then came Geelong where 5 U14 girls turned up - Natalie 3rd, Ashlee 10th, Isabella 13th, Megan 14th, Kirsten 17th

Then we went back to the team events at Sandown relays.

U14 girls = 5th, Ashlee, Ally Rose, and Kirsten.
U16 girls = 6th, Rachel, Maree and Courtney.
U20 girls = 6th, Katherine from the u16s

A top effort from all. Thus placing our teams in good positions for the final cross country event.

Ladder after round 8.

U14teams Doncaster 1 in 2nd place                     U14 Individual       Natalie 1st
                 Doncaster 2 in 6th place                                                Ashlee =9th
                 Doncaster 3 in 13th place                                               Laura =9th

U16 teams Doncaster in 9th place

Sandown Relays

A really good day for Doncaster at the Sandown relays. Forth in men's open div 1 behind Glenhuntly, Essendon and Ballarat with Knox and Box Hill in 5th & 6th spots.

Our women's U20 were 3rd and 5th.

Ballarat Cross Country - Saturday 20 June

Grace Thek wins women's 5km Victorian state road race championships. Ben Ashkettle wins the men's open 15km road race.

Sandown Road Race

Joel Tobin White won the Men's U16 and Grace Thek won the Women's U20. See photos from Sandown in the photo gallery - thanks Patrick

2008

Thanks to all those parents who have volunteered to be Winter team managers for 2008. If you want to run in any of the cross country races or relays please contact your team manager:

GIRLS BOYS

U/14 Bronwyn Walburg 0407 325 850 and U/16 Adrian Patti 0413 027 771

Louise Rule 0411584 999 U/18 Will Power 0438 223 101

U/16 David Lyster 0419 238 859 U/20 Nathan Carr 0416 067 528

U/18 Chris Gange 0412 530 348 Open Patrick Ashkettle 0408 037 009

U/20 Sarah Casey 0422 746 406

Open Kate Myers 9735 4928 (hm)

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