On a wet, rainy dreary day SAAC traveled to Rupanyup for the Tylers’ Hardware 8km Handicap. Adrian and Kel Tyler both ran the course and Vicki Tyler provided morning tea and an amazing cake for the raffle prize. Adrian finished in just over 40 minutes with a very consistent effort and Kel crossed the line […]
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On a chilly winter morning, SAAC joined sister club SACCC for the L.W. Kent Memorial Championship race. We would like to thank Mary Kent for her sponsorship and support. The club honored the passing of club stalwart Keith Lofthouse with a service and a minute of silence. Keith was president from 2013-to 2017 when David
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On an overcast misty morning, the SAAC raced with SACCC for the first of three combined races this season. The club would like to thank Best’s Winery for their sponsorship and venue for the race. Peter Hilbig ran an excellent cross country race to storm home by 47 seconds ahead of Terry Jenkins and Leon
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Winning the Stawell Toyota 8km handicap, was the icing on the cake for 18-year-old Monaghan. A clear victory with a 90-second lead over second place getter Simon Edge and two minutes clear of third placer, Drew Christian. Elise has put a lot of time into her running recently and ran a sub 6 minutes in
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Jess Cass could hardly have picked a better time to celebrate her first win from twelve starts this season with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, just two days after her thirty-fifth birthday and with wedding preparations well underway. In the wake of a brace of race cancellations, due to COVID, her win rounded off a
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Just over seven years ago, the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club had to abandon its junior competition because teenagers didn’t want to run anymore; football, netball, Playstations and mobile phones reigned supreme. But families are beginning to warm again to the fleet of foot without fear of their kids bumping heads or breaking bones. Already this season,
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Leon Monaghan is a handy local tennis player, but not once in his fifty-five years had he given any thought to competitive running. But good emerged from the doldrums of lockdown when Monaghan, for “something to do,” joined his seventeen-year-old daughter Elise, a promising junior athlete and gymnast, in casual runs that first became a
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The Stawell Amateur Athletics Club travelled to Rupanyup Saturday 8th May for the eight kilometre Tyler’s Hardware race. Adrian, Kelvin and Vicki Tyler have a long association with the club and all participated in the field of 26 runners. Jess Cass had the fastest time for the females 36:53 while Nathan Baker had the fastest
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Two sessions of acupuncture helped propel Nathan Baker to a surprise win in the ten kilometre Run For Ray Handicap at Stawell last Saturday, his first ever in a race of that distance. A dedicated trainer and competitor, Baker was crestfallen when a hamstring strain forced him to rest and to miss three races with
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After long, hard days of digging, lifting, hauling and shifting Stawell landscaper David Hunter finds it difficult to find the motivation to get out and run. He trains for perhaps “one or two days a week” but that was enough to have him primed for the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s eight kilometre Tyler’s Rural Handicap
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