Northern News

These archives contain pdf versions of the Northern News newsletters that have been delivered to NCGA members snce 1998. At this point in time (Sep 2009) some editions have yet to be loaded, but we hope to complete this in the coming months.

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January 2010  Find out about Lachie Calvert's experience at All Schools in Hobart, and Scott McTaggart's record breaking marathon run.

October 2009  The newsletter details future directions for AACT. Better still, a Canberra fun run report from Sarah Lonsdale (preparing for world schools XC).

August 2009  The newsletter contains results of the Northside Schools Cross country and the NCGA AGM and awards night.

July 2009  The newsletter contains details of the Athletics ACT Awards night.

October 2007  The newsletter contains details of the new track and field season, as well as two interesting articles from our athletics family - Lauren Boden tells up of her World University Games meet in Thailand, and Chris Butler tells us what it is like to work for the IAAF.

October 2003 Details of the new season are provided. We also include a "rogues' gallery" of committee members so that you can easily identify us out at the track if you need any information or assistance.

August 2003 Sincere thanks are given to John Harding who, together with his wife Carol, has run the Northside Schools cross-country program for 20 years. Chris Butler writes about taking the anti-drugs message to the Pacific Conference Games in Fiji. We profile Jesse Matthews in this issue.

April 2003  This issue carries details of all our 2002-03 award winners and their achievements in the past season. It also gives details of our athletes' results at ACT and National Championships results, and a profile of Sarah Misko.

February 2003  Club selectors announce the athletes chosen to represent NCGA in the Canberra Relays carnival. We also resport on a swag of pbs recorded by club members at Interclub meets during the season.

December 2002  The club's bodysuit is unvailed, and two lads take pride in modelling the new uniform. We also give details of some great early season performances at interclub.

June 2002  Find out which club members won annual ACT and NCG awards.  This edition also includes a profile of John Jakeman, and lists many of the issues to be considered in a review of the track and field season.

April 2002   We now have a new name - North Canberra-Gungahlin Athletics.  Also read what it is like to take part in an Empire State Building run-up from one who knows - Paul Crake.  And find out which of members won medals at this year's ACT Track and Field Championships.

February 2002  Shaun Creighton wins won of the first major races of the year - in sub-zero temperatures!  This edition contains the results from December's All Schools Championships and, for history buffs, gives a list of past office bearers of the club.  Some interesting names appear.

December 2001  Read about the proposed change of name for our club and the reasons behind it.  This edition also contains a profile of Jan Legg.

October 2001   We wind up the winter cross country season, and start turning our thoughts to the track in the October Newsletter.

June 2001 Quite a few of our members were awarded ACT Athletics trophies for their achievements during the 2000-01 athletics season. We congratulate them in our June edition of Norths News.

April 2001 At the recent AGM, club awards were presented to many North's athletes. Find out who won what, and a lot of other information in the April edition.

February 2001 A big welcome to our new members that have signed up in the last few couple of months. You might want to find out what they, and our existing members have been up to recently..

December 2000 Many of our members were struck down with Olympic fever during September. Read all about it in our bumper Olympic edition.

October 2000  Read about our paralympic stars, our mountain running maniacs, our secret reporter's mission to the Kenyan Olympic selection trials, together with the regular ACT Athletics news and other race results. Oh, and perhaps I should mention that one or two of those 'other' races was part of the Olympics.

August 2000 Scott McTaggart tells us about his trip to the World student cross-country champs, John Harding reveals his tactics for the Olympic torch relay, Utah Jared Nirvana hopes to keep a soccer ball in the air for 10 hours(!!), plus much more in this edition of Norths News.

June 2000 Find out which Norths members are well on the road to the Sydney Olympics. Also in this edition are all the recipients of awards from a variety of associations, and Scott Crowe's experiences at the Pacific School Games.

pdfApril 2000 Congratulations to Jeffrey Boreham for topping ACT Athletics pointscore table. Come along to the club AGM to see who else has won prizes.

February 2000 Norths now has a club captain by the name of Scott McTaggart. We've also gained quite a few members, but lost one of the best through Susan Hobson's departure. Also find out who is the latest Norths member to get himself engaged.

December 99 Want to hear about David Osmond's trip to the States training at Cape Cod? Check out the laurel wreath numbers allocated to North's members. But wait there's more.

October 99  Ever wondered what it would be like to take up a sporting scholarship to a college in America? Read about Scott McTaggart's experience here. Also catch up on the latest campaigns by Norths members Shaun Creighton and Paul Crake at the international level.

June 99 Want to find out who the winners of various awards at Norths presentation night were? Perhaps an article by Shaun Creighton on his world cup campaign. There's also story by John Harding about Ian Mackenzie which explains why John nominated him for life membership. All of this and more is inside the June 99 posting.

April 99 Find out who has been nominated for club awards this season, and read about two of our members – promising junior sprinter Erin Cooper, and long-time committee member Owen Heness.

February 99  North Canberra athletes perform at the Australian All Schools Champs. Richard Nicholson takes time off from powerlifting to propel his chair to success. Paul Crake dominates in the mountains........and on the stairs.

December 98 Mixed fortunes at the Street Mile and David Osmond reports on the World Mountain Running Champs.

September 98 Find out how Chris Butler fared when he took on the world at the duathlon world championships in Germany. All this and more in the September edition of Norths News.

June 98 North's members have been running up anything in order to get to the top.