SOUTHLAND
ATHLETICS NEWS
No 661 Nov 22nd, 2016
Clubs, please print this and pass on to your members or send their email address to [email protected] so more in our
sport can be added to the circulation list
Important Notices.
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The Track & Field Committee have put a Potential Hazards and Incident Register downstairs in the St
Pauls Clubrooms. Please make yourself familiar with it

Clubs must make themselves available to set up at the events they are overseeing at the Junior Meets.
This should not be up to the same people who do it every week. This means to be there at least 30 mins
before the event starts, to get prepared.

All helpers at each event must read the Health & Safety Guidelines (in each folder), and sign that they
have done so.
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Reminder that the Athletics Southland T & F Information Handbook is available online at the athletics
Southland website. The handbook has everything you need to know about the senior and junior
season.

There will be a Throws Officials Session with Lilian at the Central Southland College Library this
Thursday 24 November at 5:30pm. Please let Lilian or Annie know if you want to attend. Everyone is
most welcome. Any Clubs wanting Officials Training sessions, please contact Lilian at
[email protected]

Grade 14 – U20 athletes, put this on your calendar. Advance notice of 2017 South Island Youth Teams
Event (Inter Centres) at Dunedin - Jan - 20th-22nd.
Information will sent to the grade 14 junior
athletes and to all senior athletes who are U20 at for 2017 later in the week,

Colgate entries due this week - athlete entry forms need to be back to their designated club person
this week - there will be not late entries accepted
Dyani Hammers Southland Record.
Dyani Shepherd Oates and Emma Ryan have traded hammer throw wins all season, and while head to head
contests were usually close, Emma has held their age group Southland record for the past 12 months. That
all changed on Saturday when Dyani added 2.61m to her previous best (set just a week previously) to claim
the record, throwing the 3kg ball of steel 45.76m. This added 7 cm to the previous W17 and W16 record.
With NZSS champs less than two weeks away athletes are expected to be peaking but usually the best
performances come later, in the sharp end of the season leading to the national championships. Dyani
throwing so well at this stage and Emma in good form it’s a guarantee the record will be broken again –
probably more than once.
Conditions weren’t the best at Surrey Park Friday evening – cool and then wet – so later events suffered
then to add to it the camera and timing system threw a wobbly so track events were all hand timed.
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Andrea McDowell was the sharpest of the sprinters and Dwight Grieve impressed in what was really a solo
5000m as he quickly dropped the entire field and ran the 12 ½ laps by himself while Buddy Small ran a PB in
the 1500m.
Then in Timaru and Dunedin ….
There were more Southlanders competing away from Surrey Park
than at Surrey Park. A group of masters athletes plus Jack
Beaumont were at Timaru and a big group were at Dunedin with
impressive results, including a Southland record to Jack, a South
Island masters record to Scott Belesky and a heap of PB’s at
Dunedin.
The open 3000m at Timaru had a class field lining up and with Jack
hoping for a tough race and decent time – he got it. The pace was
on from the start with Jack unable to match Nick Moulai so couldn’t
take advantage of the rabbit (pace-maker) but once settled into
race rhythm was able to pick off all except Moulai, finishing second
in a new Southland M20 and M19 record of 8:36.29. This took 4
seconds off the previous mark set back in 1993.
The Timaru programme was run in conjunction with the South
Island masters champs. Right now we haven’t received full results
Scott, Masters Champion
but of the ones in already, Scott Belesky broke the M35 60m games record while Mark Flaus exceeded his
own M55 shot put record twice – in the shot put event and again during the throws pentathlon. There may
be other records – hopefully we can feature them we get them.
And so to Dunedin. Most of the Southland school age athletes had already competed Friday evening at
home and the chance to double up echo-ed the consecutive competitions many will face (either more than
one event entered or heats/semis-finals) at the NZSS champs.
Jack McNaughton and Jaxon Taylor ran PB’s in the 1500 as they sharpened up for the 3000m at NZSS
champs, Dylan Forde honed his speed after the excellent 1500 at Surrey Park the previous evening by
running PB’s in the 200 and 400m, Jessica Senior upped her discus best, Liam Turner came close to breaking
the 50 second 400m mark with his PB and Andrew Allan added 20cm to his best ever triple jump. There
are possibly more which I haven’t seen, so feel free to email if you have recorded a PB during the week.
Twilight Surrey Park Twilight Friday 18th
(Track events all hand timed, no wind readings)
100m women
Andrea McDowell
WU18 StP
12.7
Anna Skerrett
WU18 Stp
13.0
Yvonne van Baarle
WU18 Gore 13.2
Tyla Adams
WU18 Wynd 13.5
Hollie Findlay
WU18 Stp
13.7
Jade Graham
SW
Gore 14.0
Sarah Stewart
WU18 Inv
14.1
100m men (1)
Sam Stewart
MU20 Inv
11.5
Adam Norman
MU18 Wint 11.7
Dylan Forde
MU18 Wint 11.9
Fergus Keown
MU18 Wint 12.1
Jackson Stewart
MU18 Inv
12.4
100m men (2)
Tyler Hamilton
MU18 Wint 11.4
Sean Pay
SM
Wgtn 11.8
Bradley McMaster
MU18 Wint 12.1
Shaun Woodd
MU18 Wint 12.5
Ben Henderson
MU18 StP
12.8
400m
Tim Baker
Tyler Hamilton
300m Hurdles (.762)
Dyani Shepherd Oates
Ruby Fleming
300m Hurdles (.840)
Shaun Woodd
400m Hurdles (.914)
Patrick Taberner
1500m
Dylan Forde
Buddy Small
Alan Wilson Woodford
Finn Roger
Albie Small
Adam Hillis
Campbell Johnstone
Hayden Stewart
Briana Miller
MU20 Wint
MU18 Wint
52.2
55.0
WU18 Fio
WU18 StP
51.8
55.0
MU18 Wint
48.0
MU20 Fio
1:04.8
MU18
MU18
MU18
MU18
MU18
MU20
MU18
MU18
WU18
4:23.0
4:27.8
4:31.5
4:32.3
4:41.7
4:50.0
5:03.4
5:13.0
5:55.4
Wint
StP
Wint
StP
StP
Gore
Gore
Wynd
Gore
2
Alistair Hatton
Les Scown
5000m
Dwight Grieve
George Nichols
Craig Iverson
Andrew Horton
Kimberley Iverson
High Jump
Laura Weller
Tessa Baird
Anna Skerrett
Andrew Allan
Sean Pay
Patrick Taberner
Shaun Woodd
Triple Jump
Jade Graham
Andrea McDowell
Anna Skerrett
Tegan Chapman
(2.2)
Hollie Findlay
Laura Weller
Sean Pay
MM45 Inv
MM60 Fio
6:30.5
6:52.9
MM35 Fio
MU18 Fio
u/r
u/r
G10
StP
16:36.0
19:40.4
21:41.0
23.58.6
25.09.5
WU18
WU18
WU18
MU18
SM
MU20
MU18
1.40
1.35
1.35
1.75
1.75
1.70
1.65
Gore
StP
StP
Gore
Wgtn
Fio
Wint
SW
Gore
WU18 StP
WU18 StP
U18
10.56 (1.8)
10.28 (1.5)
10.05 (2.0)
Alex
9.92
WU18 StP
WU18 Gore
SM
Wgtn
9.25 (2.2)
9.15 (2.1)
13.15 (3.4)
Adam Norman
Shaun Woodd
Hammer
Dyani Shepherd Oates
Emma Ryan
Ariana Te Whata
Emma Wilson
Teagan Ashley
Jessica Senior
Ella Wilson
Jack Welsh
Bradley McMaster
Javelin
Jessica Senior
Yvonne van Baarle
Ella Wilson
Emma Ryan
Emma Wilson
Teagan Ashley
Hollie Findlay
Sarah Humphries
Jack Welsh
James Tudor
Bradley McMaster
Ben Henderson
MU18 Wint
MU18 Wint
12.79 (2.5)
10.58 (1.0)
WU18 Fio
WU18 StP
WU18 Wint
WU18 Wint
WU18 Rivt
WU18 Wint
WU18 Wint
MU120 StP
MU18 Wint
45.76 (Sth R)
43.16
33.47
30.21
26.66
22.77
22.46
39.83
35.50
WU18
WU18
WU18
WU18
WU18
WU18
WU18
WU18
MU20
MU20
MU18
MU18
36.26
32.75
30.40
25.10
24.12
22.53
20.32
17.63
40.58
38.84
35.65
34.51
Wint
Gore
Wint
Stp
Wint
Rivt
StP
Wint
Stp
StP
Wint
StP
Emma Ryan, second in Hammer to Dyani’s record throw – Andrea McDowell convincing in 100m
Southlanders at Otago centre Meet, Sat 19th.
Discus
Skye Singer
13
20.48
Georgia Ellis
13
11.09
Jessica Senior
WU18 33.21
Emma Ryan
WU18 33.04
Emma Wilson
WU18 24.95
Hammer
Skye Singer
Emma Ryan
Emma Wilson
Shot Put
Emma Ryan
23.30
42.05
34.41
12.60
3
Anna Skerrett
Skye singer
Javelin
James Tudor
Jessica Senior
Hollie Findlay
High Jump
Hollie Findlay
Long Jump
Adam Norman
Atipa Mabonga
Anna Skerrett
Emma McColl
Andrea McDowell
Sarah Stewart
Sarah Humphries
Georgia Ellis
Hollie Findlay
Skye Singer
Ruby Dempster
Triple Jump
Atipa Mabonga
Atipa Mabonga
Emma McColl
Andrea McDowell
Anna Skerrett
Ruby Dempster
Sarah Stewart
Andrew Allan
Adam Norman
100m
Dan Ryan
Fergus Keown
Sam Stewart
Emma Ryan
Andrea McDowell
WU18 11.40
9.17
MU20 40.42
40.51
20.52
WU18 1.45
MU18
WU20
WU18
WU18
WU18
WU18
WU18
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6.15 (3.1)
5.37 (3.2)
4.99 (2.6)
4.95 (3.4)
4.91 (2.5)
4.43 (2.6)
4.38 (2.0)
4.34 (2.5)
4.25 (3.7)
4.03 (3.0)
WU18 3.41 (4.5)
12.02 (3.0)
11.90 (1.2)
10.75 (2.1)
10.72 (1.0)
10.18 (1.8)
9.69 (5.1)
8.98 (0.8)
MU18 13.62 (1.0)
MU18 13.05 (2.6)
MU18 12.06 (-2.0)
MU18 12.22 (“)
MU20 11.76 (“)
13.23 (-0.1)
13.40 (-1.8)
Dannika Collins
WU18 13.45 (“)
Kendra Finnerty
WU18 13.87 (“)
Anna Skerrett
13.91 (“)
80m hurdles 762mm
Kendra Finnerty
14.07 (-2.7)
Sarah Stewart
14.67 (“)
Sarah Humphries
WU18 14.86
Skye Singer
15.41 (“)
Ruby Dempster
15.69 (“)
1500m
Jack McNaughton
MU18 4:15.74
Jaxon Taylor
MU18 4:19.11
Buddy Small
MU18 4:30.61
Albie Small
MU18 4:40.78
200m
Sam Stewart
23.45 (-3.3)
Dylan Forde
MU18 23.76 (“)
Fergus Keown
24.66 (“)
Dannika Collins
28.05 (-3.9)
Kendra Finnerty
28.37 (-4.2)
Georgia Ellis
30.58 (“)
400m
Liam Turner
MU18 50.64
Dylan Forde
51.65
Tim Baker
MU20 51.86
Tyler Hamilton
MU18 53.17
Ashlee Turner
WU18 69.54
4 x 100m Relay
SGHS (Jessica Senior, Anna Skerrett,
Danika Collins, Emma McColl) 52.99
Sth Combined (Georgia Ellis, Sarah Stewart,
Skye Singer, Ruby Dempster
55.14
4 x 100m Relay
Winton (Tyler Hamilton, Dylan Forde,
Fergus Keown, Adam Norman 46.15
Athletics This Week
Senior under-distance, Surrey Park Saturday 26th
Final hit out prior to NZSS Champs the following week – track events under distance and field events
limited to number of attempts to sharpen for the champs.
Note, track races will be hand timed and as the graded officials will be away there will not be any records
recognised.
NOTE early start for hammer
10.00
Jumps Coach Education Session (see next page)
1.45
Hammer (3 attempts)
2.00
60m
TJ/LJ (3 each of TJ and LJ if doing both or maximum of 4 if doing just
one.
2.20
1000m
Shot Put (or as soon as officials available after hammer – 3
4
attempts only)
2.30
300m
HJ (4 jumps total)
2.45
Javelin (3 attempts only)
3.00
145m
PV (6 jumps only)
3.45
2000m
Clubs, please provide helpers as we will be short on officials - the track will be
hand time and helpers will be needed at 1pm to put up the hammer nets
Junior Athletics - Waverley Shield 4, Prog B – 10am, Newman Park, Gore
Should a Waverley Shield meeting be cancelled through weather or other circumstances the
programme will be transferred to the next Sunday
Waverley Shield Programme B
TIME
10.00am
TRACK
FIELD
5
60m
10
B
long jump 1
6
60m
10
G
long jump 2
7
60m
11
B
high jump
8
60m
12
B
discus
9
60m
13
G&B
shot put
6
G
quoit throw
5
G
long jump 1
5
B
long jump 2
8
G
discus
G&B
high jump
7
G
shot put
10.30am
13
10.40am
11.00am
11.30am
10,11,12
1500m
13,14 & O
1500m
8
60H
6
B
quoit throw
10
60H
7
B
shot put
9
60H
10
B
discus
11
60H
8
B
long jump 1
12
80H
8
G
long jump 2
13
80H
9
B
shot put
14 G
80H
11
G
high jump
100H
12
G
discus
6
G
long jump 1
6
B
long jump2
14 B & O
12.00pm
12.30pm
5
100m
9
G
shot put
6
100m
12
B
vortex
7
100m
14 & O
G&B
discus
8
100m
9
100m
10
100m
5
G
junior shot
11
100m
8
B
discus
5
1.00 pm
1.30 pm
2.15 pm
12
100m
13
100m
14 & O
100m
7
200m
11
G
shot put
8
200m
12
G
long jump 1
9
200m
12
B
long jump 2
10
400m
10
G
discus
11
400m
7
B
long jump 1
12
400m
7
G
long jump 2
13
400m
5
B
junior shot
14 & O
400m
9
G&B
high jump
5 &6
80m
11
B
shot put
12
G
vortex
G&B
long jump
14 & O
3.00 pm
10-14 & O
Medley
relay
(Why Coffee Session? Because the $5.00 cost is the price of a cup of coffee – a bargain for
athletes and club coaches/parent helpers wanting to develop long and triple jump in their club.)
This 2 hour practical session is for coaches/club parent helpers and athletes. Cost
of $5.00 for coaches. Participating athletes free providing their personal or club
coach is attending, otherwise athletes also $5.
* Basic movement (running skills) for horizontal jumps
* Constructing a run up
* Developing Board accuracy
* Drill to develop skills
* Understanding the basic biomechanics of horizontal jumps
The session is ideal for clubs to help their 12 – 14’s aiming towards Colgates and beyond as well
as older athletes new to jumps.
Athletes and coaches please register by email with Lance Smith at address of this
newsletter with name, club and if an athlete your coach’s name.
This session is part of the Athletics NZ Jumps development Plan – a follow up horizontal jumps and high
jump planned for December
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This first appeared in last week’s Invercargill Eye
Patience is a Virtue for Young Athletes
It’s claimed that mastering a complex skill, any skill from playing the violin to chess to triple jumping,
demands 10,000 hours of meaningful practise. Ten thousand hours. At 2 hours a day, six days a week that
means 16 years of practise – meaningful practise.
The 10,000 hours theory is not endorsed by all experts, but whether 10,000 or another figure, ten years of
learning-practising-training is well accepted as necessary to make it to the top.
Do young athletes in this instant gratification society understand this? Do parents? I see too many
youngsters and parents “wanting it now”. Instant success! This is most often seen in children undertaking
athletic training inappropriate to their age, training like an adult when still a developing child. It’s like
giving university calculus textbooks to year 8 students and expecting them to be instant mathematicians.
Doesn’t work in the classroom, doesn’t work on the sports field. As serious training should not begin until
about 15, an athlete will expect to start peaking at around 25. This is only possible with patience and a
long term view.
An example is cycling great Sarah Ulmer. At 20 she was seventh at the Olympics, at 23 she was fourth, at
28 she won Olympic gold with the world record.
Closer to home, Southland runner Hannah Miller started running at around 14 and got serious at 15. At 16
she finished 15th in the New Zealand under 18 crosscountry championships, at 17 was 10th in the under 20,
at 18, almost 19 she was New Zealand under 20 champion. Five years to win her first championship gold
medal. And she knows she is only half way there with more to come before she realises her ambition of
representing New Zealand at a world championship event.
Hannah is currently at SMU in Dallas, Texas, on an athletic scholarship and is one of the university’s top
runners.
A platform of Sport New Zealand’s talent development policy is childhood success does not lead to adult
success and successful athletes do not focus on winning. In their ‘Balance Is Better’ booklet Sport New
Zealand states, “how someone performs at a young age is not a reliable predictor of future potential” and
“the most successful athletes, teams, coaches and administrators don’t focus on winning … they focus on
development. How athletes approach every experience (positive or negative) is a learning experience and
the mind-set to navigate those situations is what separates talented athletes from future champions. “
Finally, a recipe for athletic success.
Development is like baking a cake – put in the wrong ingredients, miss out an ingredient, put in the right
ingredients but in the wrong amounts and your cake will be a flop. This cake needs long slow cooking –
you can’t rush it and you certainly cannot shorten the cooking, otherwise development will be half baked.
And championship success is merely the icing, not the cake itself.
- Lance Smith
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