Narrabri Little Athletics’ 2025 season officially got underway at Narrabri High School last week and will run through to the end of the third school term.
The local club held two come-and-try sessions prior to week one, which were a great success and led to the club announcing positive numbers for the new campaign.
There have been 62 sign-ups so far, which club registrar Cathy Evans said was the most since COVID-19 hit in 2020 as the sport continues to bounce back from the pandemic.
Evans, who is in her 13th year as a member of the club’s committee and has held several positions across that time, told The Courier that things were running really well so far.
“This year is shaping up to be really, really good,” Evans said.
“We’ve got 62 signed up so far, and I think the two come-and-try sessions absolutely helped those numbers get so high.
“We’ve also had really great support from Darren Wensor, our regional development officer at Little Athletics NSW. He is based in Sydney but came up for our first come-and-try day and he visited the primary schools in the area to give a presentation on little athletics.
“The age groups this year are tiny tots (under-6), 6-7 years, 8-years, 9-years and 10-years, which are all individual age groups, the 11-12-years, and then 13-years-and-over.
“Week one went really well. We had great attendance and lots of kids who got fantastic results. We even had two records broken on our first day.”
Those record-breakers were Chelsea Hogg in the 10-years girls’ 100-metre sprint and Caitlin Evans in the 17-years girls’ discus.
Cathy Evans added that the club was always on the lookout for more parent helpers, but said that this season’s parents had been quite involved early on, and the club was grateful for that. She also said the club has a super enthusiastic committee in 2025.
