Hunter News
Tarli Bird relaxes after her great run
Congratulations to Tarli Bird and Amelia Aslanides!
Tarli has continued her great form from the Road Relays to win the 23 km event.
Amelia won the 14 km event and just keeps on improving. Keep it up, Amelia.
Looking forward to Ballarat!
TV, Amelia and Lesley
New member James Alexander in action
What a great day for a run around the raceway; the late Melbourne Indian Summer with a temperature of about 25 degrees but with a noticeable northerly wind. After our great start to the season at Jells Park, we were looking to build on our efforts but our great depth of talent was certainly put to the test.
In most age groups we were tested with boys unavailable due to school commitments or injury.
Under 20: Unfortunately we were not able to raise a team with three boys unavailable; only Adam Braverman was available. Adam ran for the senior men’s division 6 posting a time of 28.01 for the 6.2km.
Under 18: We were able to raise two teams here but umpiring commitments hit team two. I was pleased that 14yo Max Meuleman offered to run with that team when it appeared we only had two runners.
Team 1 finished one place better than at Jells with a 6th placing. Led off with a great first leg from Nick Parkinson, 10:12, Julian Lam 10:55 and Ryan Losty 10:44 ran well to almost snatch 5th place.
Team 2 was led off with an impressive 10:49 from Declan Murphy, staking a claim for team 1 in the near future. Sebastian Zammit, club allrounder, ran a solid 14:21 and 14yo Max Meuleman finished the team off with 12:33. Their 13th placing was also an improvement on Jells Park.
Under 16: Just how good are these youngsters? After their success at Jells, winning Gold, we were keen to replicate that. But, Matt Crowley and Michael McGuire were unavailable, so up came Jack Strangio and a pleasant surprise when Haftu Strintzos rang to seek a run after running APS in the morning. Could we repeat our Jells effort? YES, and how.
Team 1 were led off by a top effort from Haftu Strintzos 10:10 to lead the race in and then a sound run from Jack Strangio 11:13 held the team in third place for Sam Toll to chase the leaders. Sam Toll was just magnificent. A very determined effort and a fantastic performance led to a 15 second win Sam posting a sensational 9:47 final leg. The fastest on the day by an U16. GOLD again for the boys. Is a premiership out of the Question?
Team 2: We only had two runners unfortunately. Will Ockenden, still 13yo, ran a very impressive 11:18 for the first leg and then young 12yo Gabe Braverman ran 20:54 for his leg.
Under 14: Unfortunately, still no registered team, but nevertheless some impressive efforts. Jasper Pickering continues to impressive with a fourth fastest U14 effort in a time of 11:06. Blake Pfeiffer, an invitation runner, was next with a sound 12:53 and the team was anchored home by Jake Roberts in 13:00. Although invite, they finished in 7th placing.
Well done to all.
NEXT EVENT: Ballarat 5km Road Race Saturday 25th May.
Boys wanting to run this event need to make on-line entry with Athletics Victoria
Round 2 of the cross country races are our all time favourite Sandown road relays. The conditions were warm but windy and the girls had a strong team again with a few unavailable but with moving some girls to a higher division we still had great results.
Division 1 team with Sarah Lund, Tarli Bird, Meredith Cook and Julia Edwards and with Tarli getting the fastest time for all the girls of 21:53 and not far behind was Julia Edwards time of 22:54, the team gained 1st place with a 4 minute lead. Division 2 with Prue Davison, Amelia Aslanides, Cassie Higham and Stacey Bulger also came 1st with a 5 minute lead.
Division 3 with Bridget Wetherall, Anna Ross and Kirrily Burnett and thanks to Kirrily who had a last minute switch from div 4 to div 3. The team also came 1st with a 40 second lead.
And with the last minute switch Claire Oliveri moved from div 4 team 3 to div 4 team 1 and Division 4 team 1 with Anna Moore (welcome back Anna!!), Laura Eades and Claire Oliveri came 1st with team 2 with Alice Enter, Natalie Esparon and Rebecca Beagley coming 2nd and unfortunately team 3 (Michelle Ong and Ebony Warren) didn’t have a completed team.
Well done girls for coming 1st in all the divisions and division 4 team 2 coming 2nd.
The Sandown road relays were early this year and we were very fortunate for the weather but needless to say we had the wind to contend with. We had two teams again for the relays and both ran really well considering the conditions.
As the gun went off Robyn Fletcher and Kara Gilbert set off and Robyn kept on running tag with Victorian Masters team who just beat here at the finish line with a time of 28:04 and not far behind was Kara with a time of 31.23 despite that Kara’s heart rate had dropped.
Paula Nakase and Lisa Deramond was the second runners and ran really well and Paula overtook the Victorian Masters runner to now coming 5th place and Paula held the lead with a time of 28:46 and Lisa not far behind with a time of 30:23.
Helen Rainey and not far behind Franky Reid was the last runners and despite not being able to catch Keilor St Bernards, was able to hold 5th place and getting 27:45 and Franky who wasn’t go to run hard due to her mother’s day run, ran 36:09 and gain 10th place.
Well done girls for coming 5th and 10th overall in the 40+ team.
Round 2 of XCR’13 saw another big turnout of Hunter Masters at Sandown. It was good to be back there after the trek down to Geelong last year.
Numbers were down a little from Jells Park, with injury, illness, work and party commitments reducing numbers to 25. But that was still plenty, with Glenhuntly once again represented by a 40+ team and five 50+ teams, along with several Masters taking their place in Open teams.
Conditions were dominated by a serious headwind in the back straight, causing a severe lack of PBs. There were still some highlights, including Peter Macknamara’s honourable 21.53 in Div 1, Tony Russo’s excellent 22.14 in Div 4 (won’t be down there for much longer!), and several others good performances by Masters in Div 6 and 7.
The 40+ team of Lyndon Loader (27.02), John Evans (26.20) and David Spackman (25.50) came in 8th, and the 50+(A) team of Andrew Ross (24.02), Paul Strangio (22.38) and Roland Soderstrom (24.40) came in 4th, and stayed in second place on the ladder. Next best of the 50+ runners was Victor Cook (24.59) in Div 7.
Welcome back to Phil Hutton, Eric Sigmont and Hugh Wilson for their first run of the season, and well done to the Hunter Women who once again dominated all four Open divisions, and also the U16 Boys, who won their division.
Thanks also to Tony Wilson and Richard McGuire-White for helping out with team management and timing. Hope to see you both back in business soon.
Womens Road Relay Div 1, 2, 3 & 4 Winners
They’ve done it again! As was the case in 2011, our Women have won all four divisions at the Road Relays.
Junior Boys Report / Results.
On a sunny but windy day at a great venue, we kicked off the winter season in most encouraging fashion. The boys found the course tough, especially running uphill into a strong wind, but I was proud to see the efforts made by all of them for our team/s.
We welcomed some new faces to the teams; I hope you enjoyed your debut runs for the Club.
Thank you too to the parents who came along to support their sons and the club, many of whom were only too willing to assist with team duties. I, and the club, greatly appreciated it and I hope you enjoyed your involvement. To John Roberts, Steve Crowley, Julie Nield (winning team manager), Mrs Meuleman, Shirley Knuckey (and Andrew), Michelle (Pickering) and Andrew McGuire. It was great to have you all on board and supporting the youngsters.
We had six teams compete for the juniors; a great start to the season. Considering a number of our top junior runners (six in all) have managed to obtain private school scholarships and were committed to school sport for their school, this shows our growing and impressive depth of juniors. We were also able to cover two juniors who withdrew through injury.
In recognition of his obvious talent and recent impressive form, we saw U20 junior Nick McGuire being promoted to Division One seniors, the clubs elite team. A statement of confidence in such a young runner.
So, going into round one we had 25 registered juniors; 18 competing in the relays.
Pride of place must go to our GOLD MEDAL winning U16 team; an emphatic win by 1 minute 24 sec over a strong Collinwood outfit. (How good is it to defeat Collingwood?). The boy’s dominance was highlighted by their individual performances with Sam Toll 9:58 for equal fastest U16. Debutant, Michael McGuire, was next fastest with 10:00 and Mathew Crowley 10:14, fifth fastest; 3 of the top 5 times for U16. Our second team were 9th with Jack Strangio 10:48, Will Ockenden 11:30 and Max Meuleman 11:36 out of 16 finishing teams.
A fantastic effort boys.
Our U20 team was led off in strong fashion by another debut runner in Stephen Knuckey, a transferee and ex-Wesley College star. Stephen recorded second fastest of all U20 runners and the team managed to finish in third place for a bronze medal. A top first up effort for the club in a time of 22:02. Supporting Stephen, were Adam Braverman 25:09 and Daniel Loader 24:26, who injured himself in the second lap but fought on to the finish. Thanks Daniel for coming up from U18 to cover the loss of an injured Eamonn Murphy.
The U18 race was extremely close and very competitive. 22 teams finished and we were 7th and 20th . Our boys did very well with Team 1 led off by Ryan Losty, fresh from Soccer, in 10:09, Julian Lam 10:50, and a fast finishing Nick Parkinson in 10:02. Team 2 was ably led off by Nathan Douglas in 190:58, then Declan Murphy 10:56 and anchored by allround athlete Sebastian Zammit in 12:52. A pleasing effort.
The U14 boys, keen as ever, but with only two registered, finished a team when Taj Cook, just 9 years old ran to complete an invitation team. And what a great effort from the boys, finishing just 1 second out of the medals in fourth place of the 11 finishing teams. A fantastic lead off run from Jasper Pickering in 11:10 to be 3rd fastest overall and then Jake Roberts 12:31 and Taj Cook 12:54 making up the team.
Jade Cook, another third generation Cookie, ran an invitational leg in 13:55 and enjoyed the experience.
These are very encouraging results from these boys, the future of our club, and give us cause for great optimism for the clubs future.
We are all proud of your efforts boys. Well done.
Phil Hutton
Junior Boys team manager.
9754 3696
gohunter@tpg.com.au
We were greeted with sunshine yet again for the opening round of XCR ’13. While strong winds forced the removal of our tents, there was still a sea of blue everywhere you looked. We fielded 10 teams in Open Men from Division 1 to 7, including three invite teams comprised mainly of runners from our growing Monash squad.
Our best results came in Divisions 2 and 4, with both teams finishing third. We could have had another third place in Division 3 if our team members were more familiar with each other! There were many personal bests recorded. It is great to see such an even spread of talent across our first few divisions, with anyone in a lower division capable of knocking off someone above them. This was the case with the evergreen Craig Semple, showing up his younger teammates and leaving selectors with no doubt about which team he will be running in two weeks.
We move to Sandown for more relay fun on May 11 as we swap the grass and hills for the flat bitumen. I hope to see huge numbers again and some slick times on the V8 track!
Go Hunters!
Chris Winter
Men’s Team Captain
1st round of cross-country and what a beautiful sunny day, pity about the wind but it was a fun day for all. Division 1 team ran well with Sarah Lund being the first runner, followed by Tarli Bird who got a fantastic time of 21:10 and Karinna Fyfe also running a fabulous time of 21:50 with Meredith Cook finishing the team off and gaining 1st place.
Division 2 with Cassie Higham, Anna Ross and Amelia Aslanides all moving up from other divisions from last year and welcome back Bridget Wetherall after having her 2nd child. Well done to Cassie, Anna and Amelia for improving their times from last year and a great run from Bridget and gaining 1st place.
Division 3 with Stacey Bulger, Belinda Dennett and newcomer Penny Townshend. Well done to Stacey for improving her time by over 2 minutes and Belinda running well despite running in the Canberra marathon recently and great time for Penny and gaining 1st place.
Division 4 first team with Kirrily Burnett, Josie O’Sullivan and Laura Eades with Laura and Kirrily also improving their times from last year and well done to Josie for getting a great time of 26:00 andgaining 1st place. The 2nd team with Simone McInnes and 2 newcomers Rebecca Beagley and Michelle Ong getting times of 27:19 and 27:31 respectively, well done in gaining 3rd place. The 3rd team with Natalie Esparon and Alice Enter and newcomer Claire Oliveri. Thanks to Claire for helping to fill the team and hopefully will see you at more races. Well done all for gaining 4th place.
Well done girls to all the teams gaining 1st place in division 1, 2, 3 and 4 and division 4 team 2 coming 3rd and team 3 coming 4th. Thanks to all the time keepers and looking forward to another successful race at Sandown.
Helen Rainey
Congratulations to the 40+ team on an amazing team effort in coming 3rd and 5th respectively in the relay. This was Glenhuntly’s first time to have two 40+ teams. Robyn Fletcher and Franky Reid were the first runners and Robyn ran well despite running Oxfam the week before, Robyn came in 5th with a time of 26:44 and not far behind was Franky with a time of 27:39. What a great run for the season!! Then Paula Nakase went off and ran really well considering that Paula said she hasn’t been training long. And not far behind was Kara Gilbert despite her heavy triathlon training she’d done during the week. Paula ran in coming 4th overall with a time of 28:21 and Kara not far behind with a time of 31:29. I then took over and ran really hard down the hill so the 5th runner would not catch me but the conditions were really tough and felt I was really slow but was determined no other 40+ would pass. I had no idea where the 3rd team was but was able to pass her at the last 200m. I was very pleased in finishing the race and the team coming 3rd. My time was really slow – 27:10 and Lisa Deramond came in 5th with a time of 29:20 an improvement from last year.
Well done girls in coming 3rd and 5th and the 1st team getting a medal!! And special thanks to Lesley and Liz for being our time keepers.
Helen Rainey
As usual, the new season of cross country and road racing kicked off at Jells Park, with the 6km cross country relay. In great conditions, the Hunters were out in force, with the biggest team on the day by far.
A record number of 32 Masters competed, including our youngest Over 40, Peter Macknamara (20:49), in Div 2, and Craig Semple (19:20), Julian Cook (20:55) and Tony Russo (22:30) making up most of the Div 3 team.
The actual 40+ team of Angelo Portelli (26:20) and new boys Chris Allan (28:16) and Ian Henderson (27:32) came in 10th in a very competitive division.
With enough 50+ers for five teams, very little form to go on and several injuries, selection of the 50A team proved somewhat difficult. Selectors finally settled on Paul Strangio (22:02), Joe Murphy (24:50) and Andrew Ross (22:56), with the team coming in second place overall. Honourable mentions also to Roland Soderstrom (23:57 in team B), Mick Ryan (24:50 in team D) and all four teams (B,C,D,E) who finished 7th, 11th, 10th and 16th respectively.
Well done everyone, including all the Masters who filled places in Open teams. Onward to Sandown!
Mens 50+ 2nd, Andrew Ross and Joe Murphy
The Hunters are going from strength to strength. Our Women won Div 1 to 4 – the first time ever at the Cross Country Relays. Great effort.
The stats don’t lie.
Our numbers competing at the Jells Park Relays
(followed by TV’s comment)
2006 – 32 Men & 26 Women – 58 Total – good numbers
2007 – 45 Men & 24 Women – 69 Total – incredible
2008 – 39 Men & 26 Women – 65 Total – large numbers
2009 – 43 Men & 30 Women – 73 Total – a fantastic turnout
2010 – 47 Men & 23 Women – 70 Total – an incredible turnout
2011 – 65 Men & 37 Women – 102 Total – a massive Hunter presence
2012 – 73 Men & 45 Women – 118 Total –growing faster than the Chinese economy
2013 – 81 Men & 37 Women – 118 Total – maintaining the excellence
Our Winning Mens Under 16 Team with Manager Phil Hutton
And look at our Womens’ improvement
Results in Div1, Div2, Div3, Div4, 40+
2007 – 3rd, 4th, 9th, 5th, -
2008 – 3rd, 3rd, 6th, 12th, -
2009 – 2nd, 4th, 7th, 1st, -
2010 – 2nd, 2nd, 4th, 3rd, -
2011 – 2nd, 1st, 1st, 3rd, 2nd
2012 – 2nd, 1st, 1st, 1st, 3rd
2013 – 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st, 3rd
Other highlights
1st – Men Under 16
2nd – Men 50+, Women Under 20
3rd – Men Div 2, Men Div 4, Men Div 5, Men Under 14, Men Under 20
TV, on his birthday, spreading the good news
AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS APRIL 2013.
Congratulations to our nine athletes who travelled to Sydney for the 91st Australian Championships, held over last weekend. They all did themselves and the club proud with their performances; the results are listed below.
Highlight was Kellie’s great 800m run to win in a World Championship B Qualifying time. Kellie’s time was almost a club record, currently held by former Commonwealth Games runner Michelle Baumgartner at 2:01.1. As Michelle’s time was a hand held watch we will also recognize Kellies time of 2:01.22 electronic time.
Nicholas Hum was also superb with a qualifier in the long jump.
It was also good to see Sean Wroe back after a long stint out with a foot and then a calf injury. Well done, all.
| POSITION | NAME | EVENT | CAT | PERFORMANCE |
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| GOLD | Kellie HETHERINGTON | 800m | 2:04.44Q 2:01.22 | |
| SILVER | Rhydian COWLEY | 5Km Walk | 20:32.34 | |
| SILVER | Nicholas HUM | Long Jump Ambulant | 6.22m | |
| SILVER | Jake LAPPIN | 400m Wheelchair | T54 | 49.65 |
| BRONZE | Jake LAPPIN | 800m Wheelchair | T54 | 1:40.98 |
| 4th | Jake LAPPIN | 200m Wheelchair | T54 | 33.5 |
| 4th | Noni THOMPSON | Shot Put Ambulant | F36 | 7.83m |
| 5th | Noni THOMPSON | Discus Ambulant | F36 | 17.84m |
| 5th | Sean WROE | 400m | 47.25Q 46.50Q 46.35 | |
| 10th | Ashleigh HORROBIN | 400m Hurdles | 62.31 | |
| 12th | Molly GRAU | High Jump | 1.74m | |
| 26th | Aidan DEBERNADI | 100m | 10.92 |
Athletics Victoria Welcomes New CEO, Glenn Turnor |
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Glenn Turnor to the position of Chief Executive Officer of Athletics Victoria.Glenn was appointed following an extensive recruitment process, and has today, commenced his duties at AV.With a diverse professional background in management, law and business development, Glenn has held senior positions at Telstra, V8 Supercars Australia and Dick Johnson Racing with the latter based on the Gold Coast. Returning to Melbourne in 2011, Glenn was the General Manager of SuperSprint who partnered with both AV and AGPC earlier this year on the Grand Prix Fun Run.As a former athlete, Glenn has a strong appreciation and understanding for what is involved with running events, as well the support, expertise and commitment required from athletes, coaches, clubs officials and volunteers who are at the core of our sport and provide a great experience for everyone involved.“Athletics is commonly seen to be an ‘individuals’ sport but what we may have forgotten is that the sport caters for all levels of experience and enthusiasm from elite to club to weekend warriors to first timers, but more importantly for people that would like to be involved in a healthy, active lifestyle” said Turnor.“Over the coming weeks I hope to meet as many of your club representatives as possible and to continue to build a strong working relationship for athletics in Victoria. I am really looking forward to working with the team at AV along with all of our partners, clubs, officials, coaches, members and volunteers who collectively promote and manage athletics across all regions and channels”.It has already been a strong start to the calendar year and we are really excited to welcome Glenn to the AV team and the athletics family.If you haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Glenn, you can do so at Round 1 of XCR on Saturday, 27 April at Jells Park. |
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CLUB RECORD Open High Jump 1.80m
Molly Grau (right) with her bronze medal
Congratulations and well done to MOLLY GRAU, who recently twice improved the High Jump record of the club.
Firstly, Molly jumped 1.79m to finish with a bronze medal at the Victorian Championships bettering the old mark by 9 cm
Then a week later Molly jumped 1.80m
The old record had been held at 1.70m for 7 years by Sage Greenwood who at 17 jumped this mark to hold the U18, U19, U20 and Open Records.
Interestingly, Debbie Flintoff- King had held the record for 25 years prior to this at 1.69m.
Molly was a member of the victorious Division One Premiership team, with great efforts in the Pole Vault and Long Jump. ( No high jump was held at the shield final).
VICTORIAN MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS
MARCH 2013
Unlike recent years, we only had ONE member contest these championships last
week.
Helen RAINEY W40 was our only competitor and she did very well.
| POSITION | EVENT | PERF |
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| GOLD | Shot Put 4kg | 7.10m |
| SILVER | Javelin 600m | 13.64m |
| SILVER | Discus 1kg | 14.65m |
AUSTRALIAN YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS
PERTH March 2013
CR = Club Record
Eight of the club’s young athletes travelled to Perth to contest the 2013 Australian Junior Championships and they did themselves and the club proud with some outstanding results.
TWO club records were bettered by athletes who already had set the previous marks earlier in the season.
Andrew McGrath showed his allround talent with GOLD in the 200m Hurdles as well as making the final in 400m and High Jump. New member Charlotte Imer again impressed with another record to improve her pb by six seconds.
Isabelle Flook, Jack Bullock, Jack Marquardt, Georgie MacDonald and Ciara Losty all demonstrated continued improvement and were not fatr off the best in Australia.
Unlucky Tom McLean, an entrant in the U17 hurdles, travelled over but had to withdraw due to shin injuries. Disappointing for Tom.
Boys Junior team Manager, Louise McLean, also went across and provided great support to our youngsters. WELL DONE ALL.
| GROUP | EVENT | NAME | POSITION | PERF | ||
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| U20 | 400m H | Isabelle FLOOK | 5th | 63.88 | ||
| 5000m | Charlotte IMER | 6th | 17:48.7 | CR | ||
| 400m | Isabelle FLOOK | 10th | 59.04 | |||
| 800m | Jack MARQUARDT | 15th | 1:55.70 | |||
| U18 | 3000m | Jack BULLOCK | 8th | 9:17.30 | ||
| U16 | 400m | Andrew McGRATH | 6th | 52.21Q | 52.91 | |
| High Jump | Andrew McGRATH | 6th | 1.87m | |||
| 200m | Hurdles Andrew Mc GRATH | GOLD | 25.37 | CR | ||
| U15 | 1500m | Georgie MacDONALD | 8th | 4:51.39 | ||
| U14 | 400m | Ciara LOSTY | 11th | 61.74 |
