SKAAC now has multiple state champions after the weekends Victorian Youth Track and Field Championships.

Matthew Bertacco (100m, Long Jump), Timas Harik (800m, 1500m) and Anthony Aloisio (3000m) all won state titles.

Alex Bongiorno, Tom Corboy and Alex Rowe also competed and all made finals finishing at least 5th in the final. We will list all results shortly.

Full results are availble here.

Steve Cain has backed up his national decathalon championship with a win at the Victorian Open Multi Championships. Steve's overall points were slightly down on his national championship score two weeks earlier.

Steve will now have to wait until later in the season to try and get a National B qualifier to try and get on the plane to the Commonwealth Games later this year.

Full results are available here.

Dr Tom O'Donnell, who founded the St Kevin's Amateur Athletic Club in 1944, passed away last Friday, aged 87. His funeral will be at St. Michael's Church in High Street Ashburton on Friday at 1:00 PM (not 10.00 am as advised previously).

The story of Dr O'Donnell's efforts to establish the club can be read here.

Results for the Peter Norman classic, which include Regan Logan (1500m, 4:43.27, 2nd), Steve Cain (110H, Jav, both 2nd) and Alex Rowe (400m, 49.2h, 5th) are available here.

Results from last night's Milers Club meet, including Tom Corboy, Mark De Luca, Eamon Lynch, Jason Kozica, Andrew Thomas, Dino Imbriano, Regan Logan and Alex Rowe are available here.

The committee and members acknowledge the sad passing of John Whitbread (28/3/1941 to 13/2/2010) and wish to pass on our sincere condolences to the Whitbread family and in particular his children Angela, Claire and John Paul. John Whitbread was a great supporter and sponsor of not only our club but also St Kevins College and other associated clubs.

Results, including all Steve Cain and Dan Bailey's results, are available here.

Steve Cain has won the Australian decathlon title again, with a new PB and club record of 7427 points. Full results (including both Steve and Dan Bailey's results in each event) to follow when available.

A great day, but in the end we couldn't quite cover all the gaps: 6th in Div 1 and 4th in Div 3.

In Div 1 we were in the mix in most events and only had one gap in the program. But lacking our first choice selections in too many cases meant that we hemorrhaged points in a couple of key events and couldn't make up the difference in others.

The Div 3 team suffered from some athletes having to step up to Div 1, leaving gaps in Div 3. We were still in the mix, but the extra gaps were telling, with the Association Final taken out by Collingwood (who we comfortably beat last week at the Region Final), while we finished 4th.

Results are available here.

Overall, a great season. We might not have taken out the premiership, but we are back up there at the Association Finals as one of the state's leading clubs in two divisions, with a lot of promise for next year. A full season report will follow in the next day or so.

Cold and blustery conditions, but another new PB (1:49.58) for Alex Rowe, storming home from 200m out for a decisive win the 800m at the Briggs Classic in Hobart:

Video footage again courtesy of Runners Tribe, which continues to embarrass Athletics Australia with its superior coverage of athletics events:

Alex Rowe has shaved 0.01s off his 800m PB, running 1:49.63 in Brisbane.

On a wet track, Rowie was 2nd last after 400 in about 55s, before charging past the pack (in lane 2 for much of the second 400) to finish 4th.

Results are available here. Footage courtesy of Runners Tribe is here:

On Saturday we will have two teams competing at the Shield Final. Unfortunately we do not have many emergencies for most events so it will take a big effort from all athletes to get us over the line.

Teams are available here.

The program is available here.

Full details for our post competition celebration will be unveiled on Thursday night.

Following Joe Lynch's barnstorming final relay leg of 42.92s in the division 3 4x400 relay on the weekend (we didn't get a split, but have been able to confirm the time by subtracting the other team members' season rankings of 61.34, 63.34 and 63.34 from the total time of 3:50.8h), scientists have concluded that we can run 100m in 6.67s.

Being barefoot is not just for people who are pregnant in a kitchen.

Distance runners are more intelligent because being overweight or obese makes your brain shrink.

Based on racehorse stud data and the track records of the resulting offspring, if your mum paid $50 million to sleep with an Olympian (or a horse), you are probably a poor return on that investment.

Shouting obscenities all the way through a race will make you run faster, because swearing helps increase your pain threshold.

Individual results are are available here.

A good day for St Kevin's AAC at the Eastern Region Finals:
- Runners Up (behind Box Hill) in division 1; and
- Premiers in division 3.

It appears that the skaac brains trust might even have been a little too pessimistic about our chances, with the gap to Box Hill in division 1 not so great and the win in division 3 fairly emphatic. This was despite some bad luck with injuries and a couple of muck-ups on the day that saw us miss out on easy points in the hammer and high jump.

Both teams are now through to the Shield Final at Doncaster next Saturday, which will be the last teams event for the club this season.

While there is a scheduling clash between the Shield Finals and the national multi event championships that will undoubtedly hurt us (Steve Cain and Dan Bailey are fairly handy athletes), it may not be as big an issue as initially thought, given that we are stronger than we thought anyway, should be able to get back some easy points that we shouldn't have lost today and should also have a couple of athletes back from injury. The thing that will probably determine our chances of taking out a state title will be whether we can get all our other athletes out on the track to cover the program.

So see you all next week at Doncaster, with team details and a post event venue for the celebration/wake to be confirmed during the week.

The 2009/10 summer athletics rankings list is now updated and available here.

After a successful season, SKAAC has two teams in the venue finals on Saturday at Box Hill. As has been the tradition in past finals campaigns, we encourage all athletes (whether you are competing or not) to arrvie by 12:00pm for a 12:15pm team warm up lap.

Full teams for Saturday are available here.

The program for Saturday is available here.

The BBQ will be fired up late in the day with drinks available. We hope to see as many of you as possible at the track to hopefully we can celebrate a couple of SKAAC premierships.

Alex Rowe running a blistering 1:50.54 to finish second in the Australian Cup at Canberra on the weekend:

St Kevin's AAC finished the 12 rounds of the ordinary season well: The BBQ was running, the esky well stocked and we had good numbers on the track, with 11 athletes in each of the 400m and 1500m and plenty in most other events. Xavier Chapman put in a guest appearance in the 1500m and didn't do too badly (4:28.7) for someone who has been training indoors on a treadmill; the weather in Iran not always being conducive to a jog outside.

Plenty of quality too, with highlights including 5 athletes going under 4.20 in the 1500 and a 14.6 by Steve Cain to win the 110m hurdles.

Overall, it was enough to give us a win in men's Div 1 and 2nd place behind Old Scotch in Div 3.

Individual results are available here
Teams results are available here

Ladders are available here. These are the current ladders released by AV, but there appear to be some errors in some results, so we will confirm when they are finalized.

Eastern region finals are up next at Box Hill this Saturday, with the top two teams in each division going on to compete at the state finals. SKAAC is well placed in both Division 1 and Division 3 of the men's competition if we can get all our athletes on the track. It would be great to see everyone there, whether or not you are competing on the day - base camp will be in the usual Box Hill aths track spot, at the start of the 1500m.

Thursday night at Nunawading was highlighted by a PB for Timas in the 800 of 1:54.5, a big 6.96m by Dan Bailey to win the long jump, a win by Regan in the women's 800 and a win for the SKAAC team in the Div 3 4x400 relay (just holding on after the lead was almost thrown away by some showboating in the home straight).

Individual results are available here.
Teams results are available here.