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Newspaper report of first Knox LAC meeting. August 1968
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Newspaper report of second Knox LAC meeting. September 1968
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Newspaper report of third Knox LAC meeting. September 1968
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VLAA Club affiliation form for Knox in 1968
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1974/75 Championship Day at Chandler Park. U10 Girls
(L-R) back row: Tracy Reeman, Daphne Hughes (Murphy), Sharon Osborne (Dymond),Elizabeth Addicott,
Dianne Russell, Caroline Manson
Front row: Jodi Powell |
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1975/76 U11 girls Relay Team.
(L-R) back row standing: Donna Wing, Mrs Miller (Coach)
Middle row standing: Daphne Hughes (Murphy), ?, Jodi Powell, Elizabeth Addicott, Nadine Hay (Bunivicious)
Front row sitting: Sharon Osbourne (Dymond), Janette Stickland, Dianne Russell, Jane Flemming |
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Published in the Knox Gazette on 25 July 1972
"Knox Little Champs - Knox Little Athletics Centre won the Victorian Cross Country Championship at Tally Ho (East Burwood) last month. The club was so sucessful that 13 of their athletes took part in the State Finals at Yarra Glen last week. Pictured with the "Region 4" cup are the members of the victorious Knox Team."
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Back Row: Bill DYER, Rick DYER, Stephen DAVIS, Grant Warren, Barry MCGEE , Adam PEACOCK, Peter MURRIHY, ?, Robert STRENT
Middle Row: ?, ?, Jacky STENT, Grant WARREN, ?, ?, ?, Brett SMITH, Jay BULLEN
FRONT Row : Stephen KEAST, Daphne MURPHY, Suzan DAVIS, Carol STIVALA, Paul BULLEN, Julie DYER, Mark ROBB |
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Chandler Park Championship Day 1972-73. U8 Walk
L-R: ?, Sharon Osborne (Dymond), ?, Elizabeth Addicott, Donna Wing |
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1975/76 Chandler Park Championship Day. U11 Discus
L-R back row: Debbie Walker, Angela Hoggan, Janette Stickland.
Front row: Tracy Reeman, Sharon Osborne (Dymond), Dianne Russell |
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Sharon Dymond age 11 in 1976 after being trampled at the start of a Cross Country race and breaking her arm!
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Silver Medal (back) won by Steve Egan in the first ever Knox CC Champs held in 1969
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Silver Medal (front) won by Steve Egan in the first ever Knox CC Champs held in 1969
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Results from very first Knox Championships
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Article from Knox News 28th May 1969
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1972 Cross country - Knox News article
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Knox News 1972
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25th July 1972 Knox Gazette
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1969 Highland Games
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1st KLAC Competition. November 2 1968.
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KLAC Championship Day 1969. U10 Boys 800m Medal presentation
1st Dean Chandler, Rangeview, 2nd ? Bayswater, 3rd Stephen Egan, Fairpark
The medals were presented by Mr Gib Chandler – Minister of Agriculture. The winner was his grandson and they are from the early settler Boronia family, whom Chandler Park was named after. |
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KLAC Championship Day 1969. U10 Boys 800m Medal presentation
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KLAC Championship Day 1969. U10 Boys 800m Bronze Medal - Steve Egan
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KLAC Championship Day 1969. U10 Boys 800m Bronze Medal - Steve Egan
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Ricky Dyer, Champions Boy for 1968/69.
Rick is the son of Knox Centre Life Member George Dyer who the Grandstand is named after |
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Rangeview as the 1968/69 Champion Team
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Bruce Beaton – the first State gold medal winner for Knox
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Season 1968/69 was on the oval of Boronia High School.
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Seasons 1969/70 to 1977/78 were at Chandler Park, Boronia.
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The patch given to competitors in the 1969 Zone (Regional) Championships held at the Carey Grammer Athletic Track
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The Chandler Park plan designed by Boronia West’s Geoff Warren (an Empire (Commonwealth) Games Australian competitor)
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The first article on Knox Park as a future site for Athletics.
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(L-R) back row: Jane Fleming, Nadine Hay, Daphne Hughes.
front row: Jody Powell, Sharon Osborne, ? |
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1969-70 KLAC Championships
The Trophy Table at the 1969/70 Knox Little Athletics Centre Championships. The John Bennett Memorial Trophy was awarded for the first time this season to Bayswater athlete Under 10 Stephen Davis for the 800m Walk. The other Trophy is “The Rose Bowl” won earlier that month. |
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1970 Rose Bowl
“The Rose Bowl “ trophy won by the Knox Little Athletics Centre in the 1969/70 Zone 5 (Regional) Championships held at the Sandringham Athletic Track.
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1970 VLAA patch
The patches given to the competitors by the VLAA during the 1969/70 season for the Zone (Regional) Championships in Relay, Track & Field and Cross Country. |
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KLAC Championship Day 1970. Boys Under 11 800m Walk
1st Bill Donavan – Basin Heights
2nd Stephen Egan – Fairpark
3rd Paul Heywood – Fairpark
Medals presented by Gib Chandler
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KLAC Championship Day 1970. Boys Under 11 1500m
1st Geoff Hill – Basin Heights
2nd Stephen Egan – Fairpark
3rd ?
Medals presented by Gib Chandler
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Past Athlete Astra Vitols success in Perth
A record of Astra's performance after KLAC23 is shown on the 'Past Athletes' page |
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U11 boys Eastern Metro Cross Country event at Wattle Park in 1974
Leading the pack (at least at the time the photo was taken) is Ian Blanchonette |
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George Dyer receiving a medal at the “Heidelberg All Stars” meet, probably in 1974
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Paul Crapper (gold) and Ian Blanchonette (bronze)
Ringwood Highland Games hurdles race 1974/75.
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Knox Centre Record Certificate - Judy Blizzard (nee Addicoat) when with Bayswater in the Under 10’s
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The patch given to the competitors by the VLAA during the 1970/71 season for the Zone (Regional) Championships in Track & Field
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Junior Olympic Certificate when the Knox Centre went down to the Waverley Athletics Track to compete in against athletes from other Centres
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The patch given to the Under 11 competitors by the VLAA during the 1971/72 season for the Zone (Regional) Championships in Track & Field
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Bayswater’s original uniform used from 1968/69 to the 1973/74 seasons, which was tied over a white T-Shirt. The uniform colour changed to Orange in season 1974/75. This belongs to current Triple Jump Chief Official Judy Blizzard (nee Addicoat) of Eastfield/Studfield in her final year with Bayswater in the Under 12’s 1972/73 season.
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Result ticket book cover from Season 1969/70, which belongs to Triple Jump Chief Official Judy Blizzard (nee Addicoat) of Eastfield/Studfield when she was with Bayswater in the Under 9’s.
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Example of Result Tickets from Season 1969/70, which belongs to Triple Jump Chief Official Judy Blizzard (nee Addicoat) of Eastfield/Studfield when she was with Bayswater in the Under 9’s.
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This was in this week’s Knox Leader. Gilbert Chandler was the first Knox Centre Patron and he was the medal presenter from the Knox Championship photos I sent when I was with Fairpark.
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KLAC vies for all weather track. December 1975
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Last day of competition for 1968-69 T&F season.
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1972/73 Knox Championships - U/12 800m
1st Debbie Brown - Bayswater, 2nd Susan Davis - Bayswater, 3rd ?, 4th Judy Addicoat - Bayswater, 5th Sharon Walker - Bayswater, 6th Carolyn Tudor - Bayswater
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1972/73 Knox Championships U/12 Triple Jump
1st Carolyn Tudor - Bayswater, 2nd Susan Davis - Bayswater, 3rd Fiona Brown, 4th Debbie Brown - Bayswater, 5th Julie Nikovitch - Bayswater, 6th Sharon Walker - Bayswater |
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Old Banner
This photo is from around 1980 and used to setup a stall in the Boronia Mall to give out Centre information for joining Little Aths. John is a KLAC Life Member (along with being a Bayswater and VLAA Life Member as well, plus two years at Australian Little Athletics President) |
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Committee members late 1970's
Photo of Committee Members with 3 KLAC Life Members.
Back Row: Don Blyth - VLAA Treasurer, Ron Papst - KLAC Treasurer & Life Member, Darryl McDougall KLAC Secretary and Life Member, Alan Johnson - KLAC Walks Coach & Life Member
Bottom Row: ? from Doncaster, Bev Smith - From Studfield LAC
Photo from a meeting with John Guerra and Ron Papst |
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Discus Late 1070's
Photo from John Guerra.
This was not long after moving to Knox Park.
No cage, no houses and note the picnic table and chair for the recorders before the days of slip, slop, slap. |
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1991 U13 Girls.
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