The successful operation of any Little Athletics Centre heavily depends on the involvement of parents and guardians. At CLAC, we rely significantly on the contributions of our volunteers and helpers to function smoothly. Without your support, efficient management of our centre would be unattainable.
Parent/Guardian Duty Options
The various duties that need to be filled every week are:
- Set up starting at 7:30am to ensure all equipment and events are ready for competition day) – this is generally completed in 1 hour when 4 helpers are present. All instructions are printed and registration is mandatory to check off your name.
- Pack up of all equipment – 4 x helpers required each week
- Field event assistants for different age groups. Your tasks might involve helping to organize athletes, helping with equipment and preparation, measuring distances, or retrieving equipment such as javelins, shot puts, or discuses.
- Front Straight Timers (training provided) ensure timing starts with each track event and scan patch barcodes
- Starters (training provided) to ensure that athletes running correctly follow athletics process.
Please note that we rely on families on the weekly competition days with the duties listed above. Each family is required to help with at least 3 duties which can be registered through our online SignUp platform.
Additional to the 3 duties per family, helpers are also required at special events such as Regional and State competitions (Track and Field, Relays, Combined, etc) as well as others such as the Mentone Relay Day. CLAC is allocated a number of duties to complete, and the Team Managers will endevour to make sure that your duties do not impact your opportunity to support and watch your athlete from competing. Failure to complete your duty will mean that other parent/guardians will need to complete it and potentially miss out on supporting theirs. All families with athletes participating in Regional or State competitions are required to complete their allocated duties.
PLEASE NOTE – CLAC Committee reserves the right to omit any athletes whose families have not completed their 3 duties from participating in the awards night or receiving competition points/results.
Prior to starting your duties, please register at the club rooms or with the Team/Age Group Managers so that we can record that your duty as being completed.