2019-12-14 AVSL Round 7

Doncaster Newsletter

The latest round of Shield was the Nitro round, and being at our track, it was well supported. Of course, holding it the day before the Zatopek meant some of our top athletes were unavailable.

It was a different competition, with unusual distances and bonus points for the field events – if you landed the shot or javelin in a 30 cm strip, if you landed within 5 cm of your nominated distance in the long jump or managed four high jumps without a miss. It was all done with goodwill and any bonus performance was applauded by all.

In Division 2, Doncaster scored well, coming fourth, and have closed the gap on Nunawading and Mornington and now look certain to finish in the top three, though finishing first or second would ensure we progress to the Premier Division.

After a disappointing result last week, the Women’s Under 18 came back with a narrow win, while the Under 14’s returned to the winner’s table with a massive win, being the third team in the state. The Men’s 40+ team narrowly went down to Diamond Valley and were also third in the state.

Abbey Caldwell (F20 600 metres) and Darren Menezes (M16 60 metres) both scored over 500 points, while the only athlete to top the state in Division 2 was Alastair Christy (MOP Mile). Athletes to top the state in their age groups included Alastair Christy (MOP Mile), Abbey Caldwell (F20 600 metres), Darren Menezes (M16 60 metres).

The final round of competition before the Christmas/New Year break will be held on Saturday 21st at Box Hill and Aberfeldie with pre-entries currently open until midday Wednesday. We want to strongly encourage everyone to compete in as many events as possible this weekend to help maximise our points score.

If you are only planning on running one event, we’d love to see you enter another track or field event to score extra points for the club. All that matters is finishing or getting a valid throw or jump which will count towards our score. Please come and support your club, we need to finish in the top two to have a chance of progressing to the Premier Division next year, which is where we belong!

Christmas Party tomorrow night!

Tomorrow is our annual Christmas Party at the Tom Kelly Athletics Track!
All members are encouraged to start arriving at the track from 5:30pm with the heats of the Peter Ruff 100m handicap for Men and Women scheduled to start around 6pm.
Other events are the Tom Kelly Memorial 800m Handicap for Women, Ivan Harding 800m Handicap for Men and the Adam Robertson Javelin Handicap for Men and Women.
The club will put on a BBQ and drinks, Men please bring a salad and Women please bring a dessert.
Don’t forget to stay behind for the post dinner games of egg toss, three legged race and musical chairs!

Zatopek:10 Wrap
Congratulations to the Doncaster 4 x 400 relay teams, each finishing in third position in the final held at Box Hill on Saturday night. The women’s team of Stephanie Larkin, Katherine Katsanevakis, Liv Ryan and Melissa Niewoudt ran 3:57.33 and the men, Kyle Nicolussi, Liam Procaccino, Conrad Coumaros and Tristan Robinson ran 3:11.77 less than half a second behind the winning team. Congratulations also to Josh Maisey who finished a very respectable 21st in the main 10,000m race in a time of 29:39.77, the race was the fastest Zatopek in history with all athletes finishing in under 30 minutes.

Stations

Now in its fifth year, the traditional Christmas Eve stations session is being held on Tuesday 24th at Schramms Reserve (JJ Tully Dr, Doncaster. Behind the Manningham Council offices off Doncaster Rd). The session is open to all members of all ages and ability levels and the session can be tailored to suit your training schedule or fitness level. We ask that everyone meet at the pavilion on the top oval from around 7:45am for an 8am-8:10am start with the session likely to finish around 9am.

Engaged!

We want to give a special mention to long time DAC member Nick Finch who this week proposed to his girlfriend (and DAC member) Anita Strauks. We wish Nick and Anita the very best for their future together.

Division 2

Eaglehawk

32,732

10

Mentone

22,658

9

Eureka

21,760

8

Doncaster

20,163

7

Mornington

20,044

6

Ringwood

17,165

5

Nunawading

16,891

4

Bendigo

13,859

3

Casey

13,507

2

Frankston

6,268

1

Open Men (18 out of 38)

Collingwood

COL

3,156

Diamond Valley

DIV

2,312

Doncaster

DAC

1,491

Richmond

RIC

670

 Men’s 40+ (3 out of 42)

Diamond Valley

DIV

8,274

Doncaster

DAC

8,199

Collingwood

COL

5,723

Preston

PRE

2,510

Richmond

RIC

1,786

Ivanhoe

IVH

1,160

Men’s Under 20 (20 out of 25)

Collingwood

COL

2,096

Preston

PRE

926

Diamond Valley

DIV

861

Doncaster

DAC

452

Ivanhoe

IVH

374

 Men’s Under 18 (23 out of 32)

Diamond Valley

DIV

4,651

Ivanhoe

IVH

3,187

Doncaster

DAC

1,367

Collingwood

COL

870

 Men’s Under 16 (23 out of 32)

Collingwood

COL

1,854

Doncaster

DAC

813

Ivanhoe

IVH

808

Preston

PRE

631

 

Men’s Under 14 (21 out of 25)

Preston

PTN

2,472

Collingwood

COL

525

Diamond Valley

DIV

419

Doncaster

DAC

303

Ivanhoe

IVA

197

       

 Women’s Open (33 out of 34)

Collingwood

COL

1,779

Preston

PRE

1,014

Diamond Valley

DIV

479

Doncaster

DAC

324

 Women’s 40+ (25 out of 26)

Preston

PRE

2,404

Diamond Valley

DIV

2,247

Collingwood

COL

1,208

Doncaster

DAC

511

Richmond

RIC

325

Women’s Under 20 (19 out of 22)

Preston

PTN

1,846

Diamond Valley

DIV

1,629

Doncaster

DAC

506

Women’s Under 18 (18 out of 32)

Doncaster

DAC

986

Preston

PRE

950

Collingwood

COL

937

Diamond Valley

DIV

519

Women’s Under 16 (20 out of 29)

Preston

PRE

2,854

Diamond Valley

DIV

1,622

Doncaster

DAC

786

Women’s Under 14 (3 out of 31)

Doncaster

DAC

3,484

Diamond Valley

DIV

1,531

Preston

PTN

1,061

Ivanhoe

IVA

493

Results:

Grade

Discipline

Distance

Name

Performance

Points

Notes

FOP

Run

600

Danielle Mcdowell

1:48.7h

324

 

F20

Run

600

Abbey Caldwell

1:36.3h

506

 

F18

Run

60

Harriette Glover

9.01

361

 

F18

Run

600

Saffi Kiellerup

2:02.8h

232

 

F18

Run

600

Harriette Glover

1:48.1h

393

 

F16

Run

60

Sisley Rosano

8.51

465

 

F16

Run

600

Alice Glover

1:57.1h

321

 

F14

Run

60

Isabella Parrott

9.28

391

 

F14

Run

600

Grace Wilson

1:59.3h

351

 

F14

Run

600

Eliza Chivers

1:56.4h

385

 

F14

High Jump

 

Eliza Chivers

1.40m

440

 

F14

Javelin

 

Jasmine Smith

15.22m

311

bonus30; 400g

F14

Long Jump

 

Jasmine Smith

3.36m

271

 

F14

Long Jump

 

Isabella Parrott

3.42m

282

 

F14

Long Jump

 

Eliza Chivers

4.04m

403

 

F14

Shot Put

 

Jasmine Smith

6.16m

299

3kg

F14

Shot Put

 

Isabella Parrott

6.07m

291

bonus30; 3kg

F40

Run

600

Laura McLennan

2:19.6h

182

 

F40

Shot Put

 

Laura McLennan

7.17m

329

4kg

MOP

Run

600

David Mitchell

1:32.2h

354

 

MOP

Run

600

Brock Goodings

1:39.9h

254

 

MOP

Mile

1

David Mitchell

5:19.0h

237

 

MOP

Mile

1

Alastair Christy

4:20.8h

466

 

MOP

Mile

1

Brock Goodings

05:55.1

180

 

M20

Run

600

Caleb Sinn

85.9h

452

 

M18

Run

60

Lachlan Parrott

7.8

423

 

M18

Run

60

Patrick Ward

8.17

348

 

M18

Long Jump

 

Lachlan Parrott

5.62m

403

 

M18

Long Jump

 

Patrick Ward

4.09m

193

 

M16

Run

60

Darren Menezes

7.52

505

 

M16

Long Jump

 

Matthew Parrott

4.63m

308

 

M14

High Jump

 

Owais Almeiki

1.35m

303

 

M40

Run

60

David Firth

7.82

433

 

M40

Run

60

Darryl Kilmartin

9.4

258

 

M40

Run

60

Paul Mierisch

7.86

425

 

M40

Run

600

Campbell McLennan

1:37.8h

407

 

M40

Run

600

Graham Ford

2:16.9h

196

 

M40

Run

600

Jason Merrett

1:51.9h

239

 

M40

Run

600

Paul Mierisch

1:42.1h

294

 

M40

Mile

1

Campbell McLennan

5:35.7h

304

 

M40

Mile

1

John Curry

5:58.5h

281

 

M40

Mile

1

Jason Merrett

6:01.5h

221

 

M40

High Jump

 

Graham Ford

1.15m

378

 

M40

High Jump

 

Paul Mierisch

1.50m

363

 

M40

Javelin

 

David Firth

24.31m

286

800g

M40

Javelin

 

Peter Coumaros

22.86m

346

700g

M40

Javelin

 

Darryl Kilmartin

20.83m

274

700g

M40

Javelin

 

Graham Ford

18.86m

333

600g

M40

Javelin

 

Paul Mierisch

30.51m

373

800g

M40

Long Jump

 

Darryl Kilmartin

3.62m

201

 

M40

Long Jump

 

Paul Mierisch

4.55m

272

 

M40

Shot Put

 

Campbell McLennan

8.00m

373

7.26kg

M40

Shot Put

 

David Firth

7.97m

322

7.26kg

M40

Shot Put

 

Peter Coumaros

7.95m

417

6kg

M40

Shot Put

 

Darryl Kilmartin

7.14m

332

6kg

M40

Shot Put

 

Graham Ford

7.18m

427

bonus30; 5kg

M40

Shot Put

 

Andrew Parrott

5.71m

248

6kg

M40

Shot Put

 

Jason Merrett

5.57m

183

7.26kg

M40

Shot Put

 

Leighton Kearney

7.16m

255

7.26kg

X40

Relay

2x2x400

Campbell and Laura McLennan

05:26.6

233

 

XOP

Relay

4×100

Danielle McDowell, David Firth, Laura McLennan, Paul Mierisch

55.49

250

 

XOP

Relay

4×100

Harriette Glover, Saffi Kiellerup, Brock Goodings, David Mitchell

55.08

261

 

XOP

Relay

2x2x400

Maxime Plugge and Darryl Kilmartin

05:14.1

197

 

 

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