Queanbeyan Little Athletics Centre

Saturday mornings are for the 2024/25 Little Athletics season! We are open for registrations now 🙂

WHEN do we meet: Saturday mornings
– u6-u17 (born 2008-2019) 19 October 2024 to 22 March 2025, arrive 8:00am
– Tiny Tots (born 2020 & 2021) starting date TBC, arrive 8:45am
WHERE do we meet: Wright Park, Old Sydney Road, Queanbeyan

We are currently in the 2024/2025 season, which runs in Term 4 of 2024 and continues through Term 1 of 2025, observing the NSW/ACT January school holidays.  The event dates will be in the calendar page. Athletes registered for 2024/25 season can compete in cross country events in term 3 2025.

Please note that for the 2024/25 season all athletes in the U6 to U17 age groups will commence with set up at 8.00am every Saturday. Events will start as soon as set up is complete.

WHEN can you collect registration packs: a date prior to the first meet is TBC; first meet on Saturday 19 October 11am (or as soon as the equipment is packed away); following meets, available from the canteen (TBC)
WHERE can you collect registration packs: Wright Park  

Tiny Tots (6 week program)

Do you have a child born in 2020 or 2021? You might like to consider our Tiny Tots program. We ran our first Tiny Tots program in 2019 – it was well received and we’ve offered the program ever since. The 2024/25 season 6-week program will run on Saturday mornings, with dates in February and March TBC as our volunteer coach is recovering from surgery. We will be holding a ‘Come and Try’ day on 9 November, and you can register through our portal. Families should arrive at 8.45am and we’ll start activities at 9.00am, finishing at approximately 9.45am.

Senior athletes

Athletics does not finish once you reach u17s. For those intested in continuing with athletics there are a couple of options. You can now register for Community 18+. This registration allows athletes to compete at a range of track and field events on Saturday mornings alongside our u6-u17 meet, but does not allow athletes to compete senior athletics events. For athletes who would like to compete at highnoon, summer series and winter series events, you can register for Adults, U20 and Masters and compete with the team at the regular Capital Athletics meets.

Active Kids voucher – QLAC is not currently an Approved Provider

While QLAC has previously been an approved provider for the NSW Government Active Kids voucher, the system has been changed and the club now needs to reapply. We are not currently an approved provider, but hope to be again soon.

Uniforms

We hope to have the first delivery of our new uniforms for the start of the season! Initially, only t-shirts are available, at a cost of $30 each. (We have not been able to update the ‘Uniforms’page on this website, so information there is not accurate)

Parents

Family, Fun and Fitness

Queanbeyan Little Athletics Centre (QLAC), also known as Queanbeyan Lightning, is  for:

Family – Parents assisting with activities. There’s more information about being a parent volunteer, how to help and get involved. AND WE NEED YOUR HELP TO KEEP OUR CLUB ALIVE!
Fun – Emphasis is on individual improvement rather than winning, so we talk Personal Bests for everyone.
Fitness – Athletes are involved in a range of activities to improve their fitness.

QLAC is affiliated with Little Athletics ACT (LAACT). This means that QLAC athletes can compete against other clubs in the ACT region at major events to gain more experience or just to meet up with other athletes. LAACT publishes a regional calendar .

Last season QLAC  had more than 200 Little Athletes at Wright Park, many Personal Bests (PBs), parent helpers (essential) and a number of club records broken. We look forward to seeing everyone back for the new season.

You can use the below chart to check what age group your Little Athlete is in this season.

And during the season we will publish meet photos to our Facebook page – follow us there!

Financing our operations

QLAC is committed to keeping registration fees and uniform costs as low as possible so that all children can take part. To achieve this aim, parents run a canteen and fundraisers to support the costs of affiliation (about 3/4 of each registration payment goes on affiliation).

Patrons

Life Members Robyn Murphy, Sam Greenland.

Committee page

(Password protected) Here

Our sponsors

QLAC has a number of sponsors who have supported us over the years. Several local businesses have offered us sponsorship through reduced costs, funds and direct assistance. We thank them all for their ongoing support and ask that you consider them for business.