Waverley Little Athletics Centre Inc.

Cross Country Season 2025: Starts Sat 26th April 9.00 am.

Cross Country Season 2025 will start Sat 26th April, first race starting 9am sharp.

All registered Waverley athletes - cross country included in your registrations.

Any new families - can do two free trials first before paying a cheaper Cross Country only fee.

For more information including the cross country season calendar, see our Cross Country page.

Scroll down to see the weekly cross country info.

Keep fit over the winter months !!!

Annual General Meeting: TBC 2025

ABOUT WAVERLEY LITTLE ATHLETICS CENTRE

Little Athletics is a Centre based Track & Field competition for children aged between 5 and 16.  For more details check out What is Little Athletics? or download flyer.

Summer Season runs from Oct to March. Winter Season (Cross Country) runs from April to August.

Waverley Little Athletics Centre is based at Central Reserve Athletics Track in Glen Waverley, is affiliated with Little Athletics Victoria and is part of the Southern Metropolitan Region (SMR). Not near Glen Waverley? Find your nearest Centre.

Little Athletics is a volunteer run, community based, non profit organisation providing athletic opportunities for our children. Our motto is Family, Fun, Fitness. We aim to strike a balance between development, competition and having fun. Little Athletics is one of the few sports where parents can become fully involved in their child's sporting interests. Our centre has an enthusiastic committee responsible for organising the centre, and we need parents to help out on Saturday mornings at the events.

On Sat mornings, the children go around in their age groups and compete in 4 - 6 different athletic events each week, with an emphasis on personal bests and learning athletic skills and improving techniques. Extra coaching available mid-week. 

WAVERLEY - A CHILD SAFE CENTRE

WLAC is a Child Safe Centre. Kids, we expect you to enjoy doing athletics in a fun, safe environment with your friends.

We follow all LAVic and Child Safe Guidelines to ensure the safety and security of our children. 

For more information, please visit our Child Safe Organisation page. 

12/05/2025 - Call out for cross country relays.

If anyone wants to join one of our teams for cross country relays - please contact us. Plenty of interest so far.

Event on Sat 31st May @ Cruden Farm, Langwarrin.

3 athletes per team. Distances are shorter than cross country race distances.

More details including timetable: https://lavic.com.au/event/2025-state-cross-country-relay-championships/

07/05/2025 - Week 3 - Cross Country, Sat 10th May

PINK PINK PINK.

Week 3 - Cross Country. Wear Pink and bring some gold coins for raising money to fund breast cancer research. Remember registration patch as well.

We need a parent to sign up for our duty:
https://volunteersignup.org/XFE8Q

First race will begin at 9am sharp.

Please note that athletes can only run in their registered age group (athletes CAN NOT run up a distance as per the LAVIC Guidelines).

Race order is as follows:
1 U9 & U10 - 1500m
2. U13- U17 - 3000m
3. U6 - 500m
4. U7 & U8 - 1000m
5. U11 & U12 - 2000m

As the U11 & U12s are the last race of the morning we ask that the Under 11& Under 12 parents assist with pack up. Many hands make light work.

And all the action is happening at Jells Park North, enter off Waverley and Jells Rd.

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30/04/2025 - Week 2 - Cross Country, Sat 3rd May.

Very exciting to see lots of Waverley athletes participating in the first week of cross country.

Week 2 - Saturday 3rd May @ Tirhatuan Park (Kriegel Way, Dandenong North. Enter via Outlook Drive.)

First race will begin at 9am sharp.
Please note that athletes can only run in their registered age group (athletes CAN NOT run up a distance as per the LAVIC Guidelines).

Race order is as follows:
1 U13-U17 - 3000m
2. U7 & U8 - 1000m
3. U6 - 500m
4. U11 & U12 - 2000m
5. U9 & U10 - 1500m

Course Map
http://klac23.org.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/KLAC-CC_Tirhatuan-Park_Course-Map_201606.pdf

We NEED a parent to sign up for our centre's duty. Only need to do it once during cross country season:

https://volunteersignup.org/KDJMC

Registered Waverley athletes, just come with your registration patch pinned on your Waverley top. Trial athletes, see Ryan to get a trial patch.

27/04/2025 - Cross Country Training starting.

CROSS COUNTRY TRAINING starting up this week. Mon & Wed, 4.30 - 5.30 pm.

At Jells Park North, meet up at the tree near carpark 5.

Parents, you need to stay as per LAVic regulations. Please support Ryan.

23/04/2025 - Week 1 - Cross Country Sat 26th April.

16/04/2025 - Vale Life Members Ed Chinery & Tony McMahon.

Our Life Members are those who go above and beyond in their service to our Little Athletics Centre, making it the best place to be.

Thus it was sad to hear two of our Life Members passing away recently, Ed Chinery (Dec 2024) and Tony McMahon (April 2025) and we pass on our condolences to their families.

Ed was involved in the centre in the late 1990's / early 2000's, covering a number of roles including President.

Tony started his involvement in the 1970's during the early years, again covering many roles including President.

You can read all about their achievements and service, not only at our centre but also at region and state levels: https://www.waverleylac.com.au/show-honourboard 

Ed and Tony so well deserved their awards.