Waveney Valley
Athletics Club
Athletics Bulletin
October 2025
Waveney Valley
Athletics Club
Athletics Bulletin
October 2025
🏆 AWARDS NIGHT 🏆
Our annual presentation evening will take place on Saturday 11th October at Hotel Victoria in Lowestoft.
£8 Adult ticket | BUY NOW
£5 Child ticket (Under 16) | BUY NOW
Doors open at 7pm and tickets include a buffet and disco.
When purchasing an adult ticket please include your athletes name as the club member. Everyone attending must have a ticket. Paper tickets will be handed out before the event and must be shown on the night.
Our under 15 girls and boys teams competed in the East Anglian League Finals in September.
The teams qualified for the finals after finishing in the top eight during the league season.
In the finals, there were lots of great performances and PBs from a number of athletes. Bailey, Daniel, Joe and Sam finished in eighth position for the boys and Abbie, Freya, Holly, Lucy and Layla finished in sixth for the girls.
SPORTSHALL
The winter season has begun, and for our younger athletes, that means Sportshall!
Sportshall is a fun indoor track and field competition for school years 4 to 10 that is suitable for all abilities.
Over 25 athletes from Waveney are competing in the first league fixture.
What's the plan this Saturday?
📍 Northgate School in Ipswich View map
🅿️ Plenty of free car parking
🕧 Arrive 12:15 to 12:30 for registration
🤸 12:45 Warm up
🏁 1:00 First events
🏅 4:15 (approx) Medals
Under 11s: 2-lap race, long jump, speed bounce, chest push, javelin, balance test.
Under 13 & Under 15: 2-lap race, 4 lap race, long jump, triple jump, speed bounce, shot put.
Events are in two halls. Running events are in the main hall. A spectator area is available on the first floor. Field events are in the smaller hall.
It's my athletes first competition
Many athletes will be competing for the first time, so it’s a great time to start! Sportshall offers a friendly and supportive introduction to competitions.
We've been practising the events in training, and competitions are set up in a similar way.
All athletes take part in all six events. In five of those events, points are awarded based on performance. The 3 athletes with the top overall score across the combined 5 events in each age category win medals.
WE NEED YOUR HELP ON SATURDAY!
We need helpers to run Sportshall competitions.
We're all volunteers ourselves and need extra help from parents/carers to run Sportshall. Please spare a bit of time to help with tasks like retrieving a chest push ball or javelin.
We promise it won't take long, supports the athletes and helps the day run as smoothly as possible.
Please message our Athletics Coordinator waveneyvalleyac@gmail.com if you are willing to help.
UPCOMING SPORTSHALL FIXTURES
Saturday 8th November
Waterlane, Lowestoft ENTER NOW
School years 4 to 10
Saturday 22nd November
Northgate, Ipswich
Congratulations to Kiah, Erin and Abbie who recently attended Leading Athletics workshops by England Athletics.
The workshops are an introduction to leading athletics activities. They will be using what they've learnt to help support our coaches to deliver sessions, in particular to our under 11s.
Please remember to complete the training forms by midday of each training session.
Completing the form helps coaches to plan sessions based on the number of athletes attending. There have been occasions recently where many more athletes turn up at training sessions than expected.