Well we are finally under way at Cairns Athletics. Our fundraiser for the year was a great success and has gone a long way to pay our fees for Barlow Park. We would like to thank all the volunteers who helped out at the game it was very much appreciated.

Sign on was also very productive with over 70 athletes signing up already. Just a reminder that our first club day is on Sunday March the 22nd at 12.30pm. Although if you have not yet signed up it may be a good idea to get there around 12.00pm so we can organise it before club day starts. Also for those of you that don’t know, when you sign up you will be given a Cairns Athletics wrist band which enables you to train at Barlow park at anytime with no cost to the Athlete. Cairns Athletics negotiated this with the Cairns Regional Council.

You may have also noticed if you have been to Barlow Park recently that the posts for Pole vault are finally up. We hope to have it set up in the near future, we will have a specialist coach coming up to teach our athletes and coaches. The Pole Vault mats have been sitting in the shed for over 3 years so it is nice to finally see them set up, thank you to all those people who helped to get it out of the shed and measured up for a cover.

We have 11 Athletes going down for the QLAA State Championships on the 26th to 29th of April; we wish you all the best down there and hope you can all achieve personal bests.

On April the 25th and 26th we will be offering a level 1 coaching course if you are interested in becoming a coach please let us know ASAP. With our athletes being able to train at no extra cost for Barlow Park we will be on the look out for more coaches this season.