Parents & Volunteers

Supervising a Little Athletics meet requires a great deal of adult participation.

This helps assist with the smooth running of our Friday night competition as well as behind-the-scenes administrative support and centre management. We ask that parents assist at least once a month during the competition season. Please note, children are not to be left unattended on competition nights.

It is quite impossible for the Committee (all volunteers) to fulfil the large number of roles involved, and so most of the tasks involved in supervising athletics competitions fall to parents.

For this reason, registering children in the sport comes with an obligation to participate in the delivery of the program.  

On average, each family should expect to “put their hand up” to fill one of these roles about twice a season.   Some parents generously participate much more often than that, for which we are very grateful.

Parent helpers take on many forms including track event timing, event marshaling, field event measuring, raking of pits, event recording, weekly results, age group management and assistance.

Little A’s at The Ponds is a froggy affair!

You don’t have to be an expert or a sports person in any discipline.

All we need are willing helpers. We’ll show you what to do – It’s really quite easy!

Age Manager & Assistants

Each Age Group is led from event to event by an Age Group Manager and a small number of parent helpers (the number depending on the age of the athletes and the size of the group). 

Setup Roles

Each week we ask a different age group to help set-up the field. This will be published on The Ponds Little Athletics Centre Facebook page each week.

Set-up includes tasks such as:

• spreading/raking/preparing the sand in the Long Jump pits
• setting up High Jump mats
• distributing the throwing implements to the appropriate location
• deploying signage
• setting up track facilities including Tents, tables, finish line timing equipment, start line flags & so on.

Canteen / BBQ

These roles include Canteen servers & BBQ cooks who’ll assist our (volunteer) Canteen Manager.  We’ve structured the various shifts to match the typical ‘demand’ profile of hungry athletes and parents!

For all payments, electronic payment is preferred.