We’re back at ES Marks this Friday night for the first competition of the 2026/27 season.

• Tots to U8 — 5:45pm to 6:45pm
• U9 to U17 — 6:45pm to 8:36pm

Week 1 runs Event Series 1. This is our system testing night, so the competition points that determine our end of season trophy winners are not awarded on the first night.

Athletes need to be in full ESLAC uniform, with their registration number patch on the front and their age group patch sewn on the shorts or above the rego number if there is no room on the shorts/briefs. Uniforms will be available on the night if you still need one.

Preseason registrations are completed, come early on Friday to pick up you registration pack and uniform. Thankyou to the more than 500 2026/27 Eastern Suburbs members who came to pick up their registration packs (registration number patch and age group patch), buy a uniform, and let us know your volunteering choice for the season at our preseason registration nights. If you haven’t managed to get to one of the registration nights, don’t worry, you can pick up everything you need if you come early (from 5pm) to our regular Friday night events.

Registrations for the 2026/27 season are open for age groups that aren’t full. There is no waitlist this season — if your age group has closed, a second intake opens on Monday 16 November. Register here.

Parking around ES Marks is at a premium on Friday nights, so get there early.

Extra Registration Session on Saturday the 12th of September 12pm – 2pm at ES Marks

Thanks to all those who came along to our 1st Registration session last Monday night, it really helps our opening Little As evenings for the season to have as many athletes as possible to have completed their registration beforehand.

We’ve added an extra registration session not shown on our calendar on Saturday the 12th of September at ES Marks from 12pm – 2pm. There is a private schools athletics carnival on but the crowd starts to thin out from 12pm and since Eastern Suburbs Little Athletics is running the barbeque (some preseason fundraising) we thought it was a good opportunity to run another registration session.

The registration sessions are an opportunity to pick up your registration pack which includes your athlete’s Registration Number patch and age group patch. It’s also an opportunity to purchase a new uniform if required and to let us know your volunteering choices for the upcoming season. This season we are running with a set crew on the barbeque so we will be asking parents to either choose to help out their youngest athlete’s the Age Manager or pay the non-volunteer fee of $100 for a single athlete family or $150 if you have more than one athlete at Little Athletics this season. The opening few Friday nights of the season are very busy evenings so, while it will be possible to pick up rego packs and uniforms then, it saves you a lot of queuing time and stress if you can make it to a registration session.

We look forward to seeing you this Saturday.

The final preseason registration session is on Monday the 14th of September from 6:15pm to 7:30pm at ES Marks.

Registrations for the 2026/27 Season are Open

1st Registration Night Monday the 7th of September

The new Little Athletics season is almost upon us and the 1st of our Registration nights is on Monday the 7th of November at ES Marks Athletics Field from 6:00pm until 7:15pm. The registration nights are an opportunity to pick up your registration pack which includes your athlete’s Registration Number patch and age group patch. It’s also an opportunity to purchase a new uniform if required and to let us know your volunteering choices for the upcoming season. This season we are running with a set crew on the barbeque so we will be asking parents to either choose to help out their youngest athlete’s the Age Manager or pay the non-volunteer fee of $100 for a single athlete family or $150 if you have more than one athlete at Little Athletics this season. The opening few Friday nights of the season are very busy evenings so, while it will be possible to pick up rego packs and uniforms then, it saves you a lot of queuing time and stress if you can make it to a registration night.

We look forward to seeing you this Monday.

Registrations for the 2026/27 Season are Open

Thank you for a fantastic season. Winter coaching is now available on Mondays, with the possibility of adding Wednesdays.

Award winners were presented at the last night of the season. Please check here if you were unable to make it, trophies can be collected on Monday nights from the track 6pm-6.30pm.

Would you like to be more involved with the club and be the first to know what’s coming up? Why not attend the AGM and volunteer to help out the committee. AGM open to all on Monday, 26 May at ES Marks in the shed 6-7pm

Annual Report 2025

AGM Minutes 2024

Winter coaching details here. Important to keep moving over Winter. Once school sports rolls around from August, it’s easy to see who has kept up with the coaching.

Registration for the 2025/2026 season opens August 1, 2025. Don’t delay to register as many age groups filled up fast in 2025 with a 100 person waitlist!

If you would like to be more involved with Little Athletics by way of a volunteer role or by assisting the committee, please reach out eslac1@outlook.com

Thanks for a great season,

Your ESLAC Committee

Get ready, it’s registration time!

Registrations open THIS THURSDAY 1st AUGUST. When the link becomes available from LANSW, it will be posted here.

All information you need is on our rego page.

IMPORTANT things to remember:

• Register early! Many age groups fill up and we will have to add you to a waitlist if you miss out, even if you are returning member.
• We are not offering trials. Our club is just too big to handle this
• We are a volunteer club, meaning we are a club who requires parents to volunteer on Friday nights, but if this isn’t for you or you’re unable to assist, you can pay an additional fee to enable us to hire help.

Winter training at ES Marks

Winter Coaching and starts the week commencing Monday 8 April . We have sprints, throws, long/triple and 200/400/800 coaching options across Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday

Whilst little Athletics is over and winter sport has commenced.  The Schools competition program (School, Zone, Regionals, State and Nationals U10-U12) operates in Winter so doing one session a week will greatly assist with the schools program.  Remember the Primary Schools program  has 100m, 200m, 800m, 1500m long jump, high jump, discus and shot put plus 2km and 3km cross country.  The Senior Schools program has all the events we do plus Hammer Throw, Steeple Chase and Pole Vault.

The coaching fee is for the season not per session and the fee is for the winter season.

The winter season starts week commencing Monday 8 April – 24 September for the (Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday options) and Monday 14 October for the Monday option.  There is no coaching on public holidays nor during the public school holidays periods for (Tuesday, Wednesday and Sundays).  Monday Coaching continues through the school holidays for those that paid for Mondays but is not available on Monday public holidays.

Monday (note 26 nights in the winter season) fee $230 for season and you can attend any session (noting 12 plus hurdles with Mal is only for age 12 plus hurdlers.  The $5 access fee also applies Monday as the coaching fee covers the coaching cost only.

• 1730-1830 Sprints with Manu
• 1730-1815 Hurdles with Mal (U8-U11)
• 1815-1900 Hurdles with Mal ages 12 plus
• 1730-1815 Long/Triple with Max Wende
• 1730 – 1815 Shot and discus with Anne
• 1815-1845 Javelin with Max Wende
• 1815-1915 Speed endurance with Anne 200/400/800,

Tuesday sprints with Manu 1730-1830  this season U6 and above  cost $160 for the season (ES Marks gate entry fee payable to Centennial Parklands)

Wednesday sprints and hurdles with Mal 1730 -1830 U8 and above cost $200 for the season (ES Marks gate entry fee payable to Centennial Parklands)

Sunday 0830-0930 Speed endurance at McKay Oval Centennial Park with Anne $160 for the season (no access fee obviously)

For those seeking distance training options contact Drew at drewarichardson@gmail.com

Payment

Please ensure that all fees are paid prior to joining the coaching.  Please pay the ESLAC bank account

Eastern Suburbs Little Athletics BSB: 012241

Account Number: 254 095 775

When paying, put your name and the night for which you are paying in the comments field:
eg $200 Wed H Holt etc

Thanks your ESLAC committee

Dear Eastern Suburbs Zone Athletes, Parents and Carers,

Well done to all our athletes at Zone as well as our parents, carers and coaches.  We had 188 athletes in 639 events at zone and it was great to host Zone at ES Marks.

Our under 7s don’t progress to Regionals but they took home lots of medals and performed well at what was probably their first big competition.  They will all be better for the experience and it’s easy to forget that many of our champion athletes started the same way.

We have 140 athletes or 82% of our eligible Zone athletes progressing to Regionals in 352 events.  The Eastern Suburbs progression list is attached.  We also had four relay teams progress with the Junior Boys, Junior Girls and Senior Boys winning and the Senior girls coming second running with two U15s and no U17.  The Junior boys broke their record from last year and the Junior Girls and Senior Boys weren’t far off the records.  It is great to see our Senior teams performing well after so many years of good junior teams.

One other impressive statistic is that Eastern Suburbs had more first places than any club at zone as per the table attached.  We also had a massive 19 more 1^st places than Balmain to secure a top of the table finish.  Our 188 athletes achieved top 3 places in 189 events.  For context Balmain had 249 athletes at Zone so 61 more than us. ESLAC on top of the “medal” table is a great achievement.  Even 5 years ago we would not have thought that this was possible.

We also had Marnie (long jump), Charles (80m hurdles) and Callie (400m) break zone records as well as Spencer, Ethan, Bertie and Charles break the record in the Junior boy’s relay.  Well done, breaking zone records is a real achievement.  For the record breakers I have your $50 vouchers ready to present upon your return from holidays.

Thanks to all of the parent volunteers and our paid crew for the work over the weekend.  The BBQ was a massive undertaking too and it seemed to go well.  Thanks Paul, Grant and Allison for taking charge at the BBQ for us and to all of the parent helpers.  Our usual Friday nights prepared us well for the big crowds.

Regionals is on at Sylvania on the 3^rd and 4^th of February.  The program will be finalised in early January.  At this stage it is a 2-day program, I am just not sure on which day of the program the 3km event will be held yet.

In my experience Regional results suffer where the athlete doesn’t maintain their training over the break. So please keep some training up over the next 3-4 weeks, especially if you want to qualify for State.   Our ESLAC coaches are back on Monday 15 January and our usual Friday night event is on again on the 19^th of January. There is no event Friday 26^th of January (Australia day) with Regionals the following weekend.

For those that want more competition, there is State Combined Carnival on the 2^nd and 3^rd of March in Newcastle.  The registrations for this event are open now.  It is great carnival for our athletes that are talented over the running, throw and jumps events.

Finally, ESLAC is also affiliated with Athletics NSW (ANSW) and this year they are offering a separate Regional Program.  ANSW is a separate entity to Little Athletics and used to be called Senior Athletics.  Our U13-U18 athletes used to join Senior Clubs under dual membership rights to compete at State Juniors and Nationals.  Now they can stay at ESLAC and compete in our colours at these events.  There is a $40 fee to join the ANSW and they will be hosting a Regional Carnival at SOPAC on the 17^th and 18^th of February for our Region (Sydney East Clubs). You will have to enter via the Athletics NSW site and the entries won’t open until January.  Under this program you pay fees when you register for the events unlike our Little Athletics programs where we charge a small fee for Zone and Regionals and no fees for State.  There is no Zone equivalent for the ANSW program.

Under the ANSW program they will also host a Youth State Titles with progression based on performance at the ANSW Regional program.  The ANSW State will be on the 14^th to 17^th of March at SOPAC a week before State Little Athletics.

To access these ANSW Regional and State programs you need to go to the Athletics NSW site and register.  You choose a club (Eastern Suburbs Little Athletics) and complete the ANSW online registration form which will cost $40.  Only those competitors that want to compete in the ANSW programs need to do this.

There is the normal State Juniors for our U13 to U20 athletes under the ANSW program which is on at SOPAC on the 7^th to the 10^th of March.  Many of our talented U13-U17 athletes use this event to achieve qualifying times for the National Junior Championships.

Again, well done to our Zone team that was our biggest and now most successful ever.  Let’s aim for great results at Regionals and for a record number of athletes to progress to State Little Athletics this season.

See you back at the track in the new year for our Friday night 19^th of January 2024 event.

Drew Richardson

ESLAC President

Weather Update:

We are expecting some showers tonight but not enough to cancel our Little Athletics for Friday the 27th of October. So bring a towel and some warm clothes because whatever the weather, we will be at ES Marks this evening.

We are back at the track tonight, Friday, 27 October doing Series 5. Have fun everyone, see you there!

It’s likely to be one of our busiest nights, so please bring your patience and help volunteer with your kids activities!

Do you have siblings in different time-slots on a Friday Night? Did you know you can sign-up your older children to coaching at 5:30pm while they wait for their session to start. Find out more here

State Relay Teams Announced

Please find below the state relay teams for ESLAC for 2023. The Little Athletics NSW State relay championships will be held on Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12th of November. On Saturday the 11th the Junior Teams compete (U8 to U11 Age Groups) and on Sunday the 12th the Senior Teams compete (U12 to U17 Age Groups). Congratulations to all those athletes who have been selected, ESLAC is a high performing club in all NSW athletics competitions and being selected to represent ESLAC is a great achievement of which you should be very proud.

ESLAC State Relay Junior Teams 25th October 2023

2023 State Relays Junior Saturday Program

ESLAC State Relay Senior Teams 25th October 2023

2023 State Relays Senior Sunday Program