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Round 1 of the 2025 Winter Cross Country season took place at the Shoalhaven UOW course on Saturday 5th April. The 1km course was completed by 2 competitors with Grace Parmenter finishing first in a quick time of 7.11 followed by Will Chisolm in 17.03. In the 2km event there were 7 participants. It was …
At last Saturday’s opening round of the Winter Cross Country season, Rebecca Cooper was presented with her winning trophy for the Friday night Walk, Run and Socialise Program. Rebecca ran 11 out the 12 possible rounds, missing only one round, while away in Melbourne. Rebecca pipped runner-up Perry Strand by a mere point. Last year’s …
Rebecca Cooper wins the Friday Night Walk, Run and Socialise TrophyRead More
Winter Cross Country returned last Saturday for the 2025 season under wet and cloudy skies. The weather bureau was predicting severe weather later that evening. After long discussions, the committee decided to go ahead with the opening round. As it turned out the afternoon was overcast, but no rain fell. Although wet, the course was …
Opening Round of Winter Cross Country Attracts MudlarksRead More
The Australian Athletics Championships will be held in Perth from 4th to 13th April 2025. This year’s Australian Championships will be the 102nd edition of the event, which dates back to 1890 for men and 1931 for women. The meet covers open age events as well as all junior events from Under 13 through to …
The 2025 NSW Open & HART Sport Little Athletics Championships (ages U9-U12) took place over 4 days, 20th-23rd March at SOPAC. In the Open events, Nowra Athletics Club had 2 athletes make the State finals in the highly contested middle distance events. Amelia May ran a qualifying time of 4.34.60 in the 1500m on Thursday …
NSW Open & HART Sport Little Athletics Championships 2025Read More
NSW Junior Championships for 13’s (Under 14) to Under 20 were held at SOPAC 13th-16th March 2025 in very hot conditions. Nowra was represented by 14 athletes in the black and gold. Evie Binney kicked off with a bronze medal performance in the Under 16 2000m steeplechase, completing the event in 7.49.18. Evie also contested …
The final night of Track and Field took place on Wednesday 12th March 2025. It was great to see so many people in attendance to celebrate the season. Nineteen-year-old Will Dyball ended the season with a bang, clocking 1.24.67 over 600m to break the record in the 19-20 years category. The record of 1.25.20 was …
The final night of track and field competition was a fun night with a fantastic turnout! The night started with a 600m run where Will Dyball broke the record in 1.24.67. There was plenty of competitiveness in both heats of the distance. Macca Davis ran in 2nd in heat 1 followed by Josie Sproule, then …
NSW Milers VII was held at The Crest Athletics Track on Thursday 6th March, 2025. Once again, Nowra had representation at this event with great results. In an awesome run, Airlie Stevens clocked an 8 second PB of 4.57.49 in the 1500m for 7th place in heat 1. Harrison Baxter made a 6 second improvement …
Athletes went out in style on the last night of Track and Field pointscore competition on Wednesday 5th March, breaking 5 records. In the field, mother-daughter duo Anne and Emerson Boatswain both set new throw records. Emerson threw a new record distance of 14.84m in 12-13 years hammer exceeding her previous best of 14.35m whilst …
Nowra Athletics Club had 3 athletes travel to the ACT to compete in the Capital Athletics Summer Series No.9 on Saturday 1st March 2025. Erin Smart had a good run in the 400m, clocking 58.02 for 4th place in heat 3. Tom Brookes also contested the 400m and ran 55.91 for the win in his …
Athletes compete in Capital Athletics Summer SeriesRead More
The last day of summer was also the last day of the Friday Night Walk, Run and Socialise Program. The venue for the evening was the beautiful Beach Road in Gerroa National Park. As the French would say, a ‘petit’ number of runners took advantage of the cool evening and the magnificent bush track course. …
Wednesday night Track and Field competition is drawing to a close and our athletes are going out with a bang. Last Wednesday on 26th February, Kerrie Jones threw 16.66m for a new 70+ discus record, bettering her previous record of 16.16m. This comes on the back of her recent nomination for NSW Masters Athletics Multi-event …
Erin & Kerrie break records as T & F draws to a closeRead More
2025 NSW Masters Championships took place at SOPAC over 3 days, 21st–23rd February where Nowra Athletics Club was represented by 8 athletes. Kerrie Jones started off Nowra’s successful campaign on Friday night with a silver medal in the women’s 70-74 years weight throw, throwing 7.75m. In the hammer throw Kerrie also took silver with a …
Husky Running Festival and the NSW Master’s Championships limited Friday Night Walk, Run and Socialise participation to a small, but keen contingent of walkers and runners on Friday 21st February. Cool weather and vista views of St Georges Basin were a feature of the evening and were enjoyed by all. The newly completed million dollar …
The Albie Thomas Mile was held on Thursday 20th February 2025 at The Crest Athletics Centre. Hugh Thirwall kicked off the competition for Nowra in the 800m F race. Hugh was just off his PB with 2.14.95. Next up was Airlie Stevens in the 800m D race. Airlie ran a very gutsy race, demonstrating a …
Kadance Naylor speared a new javelin record in the 14-15 years group on Wednesday 19th February, with her throw of 35.72m. Kadance also had a good throw in hammer with 19.99m, edging out mum Lauren Naylor who threw 19.73m. Anne Boatswain recorded the biggest hammer throw of the night with 20.39m. In the junior discus …
Illawong High Velocity IV took place on Saturday 15th February 2025. Junior members Isla Bailie and Maiya Donougher both contested the sprint events and long jump. Isla ran well to clock 13.68 in the 100m and 28.39 in the 200m whilst she jumped 4.32m in long jump. Maiya also had a good competition with 14.19 …
Bernie Reagan was the venue for the Valentine’s Day event on Friday 14th February 2025. There was a real positive social buzz as runners waited for the 2km and 5km events to start. Runners also welcomed back Leith Babian to the club, after a lengthy stint in Wollongong. Leith was happy to be back in …
It was an exciting week of competition on February 5th with 4 new records set. In the field, Kadance Naylor speared 34.87m for a new 14-15 years javelin and Anne Boatswain threw 27.74m in discus for a new 40-49 years discus record. Meanwhile in high jump, Kate Wagner cleared 1.35m for a new 30-39 years …