News - Athletics NSW

Coach Profile: Jacinta Doyle

Sutherland Shire coach, Jacinta Doyle is a coach on the rise. In this profile, she maps out her 10-year pathway in coaching, the world class mentors that have influenced her and for her the challenging of continuing to learn about her craft, solving â€˜puzzlesâ€™ and noting that â€œevery athlete is different and therefore needs to be coached and programmed in a particular way.â€

Wed 27 May 2020

Officials of the Year â€“ Josephine Ng and Dave Higgins

The 2020 Athletics NSW Officials of the year are Dave Higgins and Josephine Ng. There are few more important to our sport than our officials and we recognise and congratulate Dave, Josephine and the many officials who keep our sport going.

Sat 23 May 2020

Life Membership - Janet Nixon

There are few harder workers for athletics in NSW than Janet Nixon and a long overdue recognition of Life Membership is awarded to her in 2020.

Thu 21 May 2020

Inaugural RunNSW Virtual Series â€“ an innovative event success, and a pathway forward

Last week marked the close of a brand new event launched by RunNSW, the recreational running arm of Athletics NSW, named the RunNSW Virtual Series â€“ which provided Virtual 4k and 5k events to all participants across NSW, and more broadly, the country.

Wed 20 May 2020

VALES Brian Dibben and Graham Taylor

The NSW athletics community has lost two long serving volunteers Brian Dibben and Graham Taylor.

Tue 19 May 2020

Athletics NSW Awards: Alex Stewart named top coach

Athletics NSW has pleasure in announcing and recognising the 2019/20 coaches of the year.

Thu 14 May 2020

Athletics NSW Appoints New Directors

Athletics NSW (ANSW) is pleased to announce the appointment of Felicity Colbourne and Matt Baker as members of the Board of Directors. The appointment of Felicity and Matt follows an extensive public recruitment process embarked upon by the Board in late 2019 as part of its commitment to operating a professional skills-based Board.

Wed 13 May 2020

Junior, Masters and Para athletes of the Year

Athletics NSW has pleasure in announcing the 2019/20 athletes of the year in the categories, juniors, masters and para-athletics.

Tue 12 May 2020

2020 Club Award winners - Margaret Beardslee and UTS Norths

Mingara clubâ€™s Margaret Beardslee and UTS Norths have won the top Athletics NSW club awards for 2020. The sport in NSW is fortunate to have many hard-working club administrators. Often they go unrecognised as they burn the midnight candle organising everything from finances to registrations, uniforms, awards, publicity competitions and relay teams.

Wed 06 May 2020

Bankstown and Mingara dominate 2019 Winter Awards

With the cancellation of the 2020 Athletics NSW awards, over the next month we will announce the winners on the website and in social media.

Mon 04 May 2020

Vale: Jim Bailey â€“ 1956 Olympian

During the â€˜50s and â€˜60s Australia produced a procession of the world class milers, including John Landy, Merv Lincoln, Herb Elliott and Albie Thomas. A lesser known was 1956 Olympian Jim Bailey (STG) who passed away aged 90 last week (March 31) in Bellingham in Washington State.

Tue 07 Apr 2020

Athlete Pathway: World Juniors or not

Leading NSW and Australian teenager athletes are in limbo, unsure if the World Athletics U20 Championships will he held this year. In this article for the Athletics NSWâ€™s coaching newsletter, David Tarbotton, through athlete examples, highlights the enormous variety of pathways junior athletes follow to senior success â€“ some via the World Juniors and others with very limited or even no junior involvement or achievements in athletics.

Tue 31 Mar 2020

Fletcher fills a coaching void

NSWâ€™s Hunter area has been a fertile region for talented horizontal jumpers, but when Max Debnam flagged his retirement, a member of his squad Shaun Fletcher took the baton.

Tue 31 Mar 2020

COVID-19 Update - Impacts on small group coaching/training

Overnight, the Federal Government announced further restrictions and measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Small group training is now not permitted, with outdoor exercise restricted to two people and in compliance with social distancing advice.

Mon 30 Mar 2020

COVID-19 Update - Further impact on Athletics NSW 2020 winter calendar

Please find following further updates regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the 2020 ANSW | RunNSW calendar and advice for Club events and competitions: ANSW Winter Calendar The NSW Government has released â€œPublic Heath (COVID-19 Public Events) Order 2020â€ which prohibits the staging of outdoor events which will or is likely to have 500 people or more in attendance. This order is in place until at least 14th June 2020 (Please note we will provide updates and/or changes as communicated).

Thu 19 Mar 2020

Update regarding upcoming Athletics NSW events

The COVID-19 outbreak is unprecedented and causing wide spread disruption. Athletics NSW Staff and Board are working together to ensure we prioritise the health, safety and wellbeing of our athletes, officials, participants, staff, volunteers and supporters over the coming months. We have unfortunately had to make some changes to the early events on our winter calendar and other planned ANSW events:

Wed 18 Mar 2020

A message from the Chair of Athletics NSW

Good afternoon all, I had hoped that my first message to the NSW athletics community as Chair would come in more positive circumstances, having just come off the back of the NSW Championships and looking forward with anticipation to the Australian Track and Field Championships in Sydney and the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Mon 16 Mar 2020

Teenagers dominate 123rd NSW Open Championships

The 123rd NSW Championships, held over the weekend at Homebush, were dominated by teenagers with 11 juniors winning titles. The competition produced two new NSW World U20 Championships qualifiers - triple jumper Desleigh Owusu and javelin thrower Lianna Davidson, while there were two attempts at Tokyo Olympic Games qualification by Nicola McDermott in the high jump and South Korean Minsub Jin in the pole vault.

Mon 09 Mar 2020