Stawell Amateur Athletic Club secretary Naomi Hunter was running on adrenalin when she scooted to a surprisingly easy win in the five kilometre Ivan McDonald Handicap at Stawell’s Big Hill last Saturday.
Hunter found herself burdened by extra duties due to the absence of club President, Jess Cass, who was holidaying...
Read more
It took thirty-years for Simon Edge to win his first ever foot race a fortnight ago and seven days to win his second.
Despite being re-handicapped for his maiden win in the King of the Mountain at Halls Gap, Edge backed-up a week later to beat not only the handicapper but...
Read more
Plagued with nagging foot problems for most of 2017 and thinking his fifty-year career would end, veteran runner Bob Freeland thought he would finish the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season in a whimper but instead has ended it in a bang.
His win in the five kilometre Ivan McDonald Big Hill...
Read more
Wily veteran Keith Lofthouse travelled to Stawell’s Big Hill last Saturday with some confidence that he could finish the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season with a third win.
But then world class ultra-marathoner Kieran Ryan, more than half his age and more than twice his speed, arrived just five minutes before...
Read more
Landscape gardener, golfer and cricketer Dave Hunter put down the tools, the clubs, and the pads and ran for his life at Stawell’s Big Hill last Saturday to achieve something he didn’t think possible at the start of 2013.
Showing the benefit of his rookie season with the Stawell Amateur Athletic...
Read more
After being pipped on the post the previous week, Justine Tracey stormed to her second win of a record-breaking season with the club – the twelfth win by a female in 18 races.
Never before in our 46-year history have the “fairer sex” handed out such a whipping to the males....
Read more
Husband and wife team Rick Price and Selina Heard-Price capped off an amazing rookie season with our club when Rick notched an unprecedented fourth win for the couple in the five kilometre McDonald's Hairdressing Handicap, held at Stawell’s Big Hill last Saturday.
“Slim Jane” Selina started the juggernaut rolling when she...
Read more
Veteran campaigner Keith Lofthouse turned the sense of old failures into back to back victories in the five kilometre Ivan McDonald Hairdressing Handicap last Saturday.
Keith recalled running second in the prestigious Eaglehawk to Bendigo road race in 2002, thinking it would be "the closest I'll ever get to glory", when...
Read more
Skipping races in Stawell to venture to Melbourne for two events sharpened up veteran campaigner Keith Lofthouse, who went on to take out the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s season finale at Big Hill last Saturday.
Lofthouse finished a creditable sixth in the 16 kilometre George Perdon Memorial Handicap at Keilor on...
Read more
The final race of the year, the Lois Trimble Handicap, was once again run over a tough 2 lap 5km course, around and over Stawell’s Big Hill.
The weather usually seems to be either hot, or cold and wet, and this year it ran true to form with a fine, mostly...
Read more
