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VALLEY ATHLETES AT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Thirty one DVAC athletes travelled to Adelaide to compete in the 2024 Australian Track & Field Championships held over nine days of competition. The Valley athletes won a total of 11 medals – 5 Gold, 3 Silver and 3 Bronze at the Championships. In 2023 DVAC was represented by 27 athletes who won a total of 6 medals.
Sun 21 Apr 2024

VALLEY ATHLETES HEAD TO ADELAIDE FOR NATIONALS

A strong contingent of 36 DVAC athletes will soon be heading to Adelaide for the 2024 Australian Track & Field Championships to be held from 11th April to the 19th April 2024. The Roster for DVAC athletes competing at the Nationals is listed below.
Mon 08 Apr 2024

DVAC RESULTS FROM APRIL SPECIALIST MEETS

Forget about the AFL ‘Gather Round’ in Adelaide this week – the real action is set to get under way with the 2024 Australian Track & Field Championships in Adelaide from Thursday 11th April until Friday 20th April 2024. Athletes from all over the nation will converge on the SA Athletics Stadium for the nine days of competition and there will be 32 DVAC athletes in the number.
Sun 07 Apr 2024

VALLEY CLAIMS PREMIER DIVISION PREMIERSHIP

The Diamond Valley Athletic Club has won the 2023/2024 season in the Athletics Victoria Premier Division in the AVSL competition, making it back-to-back premierships. By the end of competition in Round 12, DVAC were on top of the Premier Division ladder for the ninth time in the season and five points clear of Eaglehawk. In Round 12 a total of 79 DVAC athletes (39 Female & 40 Male) turned out to press home the Valley claim to a season victory with the majority competing atDoncaster.
Mon 25 Mar 2024

RESULTS ROUND UP FOR MARCH 2024

AV Shield season is over but Valley athletes have not stopped competing. Listed below are the results from a number of Specialist Meets held across March. Coming up - the DVAC Cross Country Trials & Registration Day on Saturday 20 April 2024 followed a week later by the first event of Athletics Victoria Winter season - the Cross Country Relays at Jells Park.
Mon 25 Mar 2024

GOLD RUSH FOR DVAC AT VIC MASTERS

After an amazing season where both Mens and Womens 40+ teams won AVSL Age Group Premierships the Masters athletes ventured to Doncasterf for the Victorian Masters Athletics Championships held over the weekend. A Club record of 21 Gold, 10 Silver and 9 Bronze Medals were won by the older Boys and Girls of the Valley.This beat the old record gold medal haul of 20 set two years ago.The Total of 40 Medals is an all time DVAC Masters record.
Mon 18 Mar 2024

Q&A WITH KEELY & ELYSSIA, TRIVIA NIGHT, RESULTS

The 2024 Victorian Track & Field Championships are now over & it’s all systems go in the lead up to the 2024 Nationals that are to be held in Adelaide from April 11 – 19. There will be a large contingent of Valley juniors heading to Adelaide as well as a number of our Open age athletes. Two of these are Keely Boyne and Elyssia Kenshole. Read below how the two are planning their approach to this year’s Nationals.
Mon 11 Mar 2024

DVAC MEDAL HAUL AT VIC CHAMPS WEEKEND 2

By the end of Day 6 of the 2024 Victorian Track & Field Championships the 55 DVAC athletes who had competed over the two weekends of competition had won a total of 47 medals (18 Gold, 16 Silver and 13 Bronze). This tally set a new record for the Diamond Valley Athletic Club with the previous best medal haul coming in 2023 when the DVAC athletes collected a total of 40 medals. In 2022 DVAC athletes won 22 medals.
Mon 04 Mar 2024

VALLEY ATHLETES SHINE AT VIC CHAMPS WK 1

For the 41 DVAC athletes (24 Female & 17 Male) who participated in Week 1 of the 2024 Victorian Track & Field Championships, the experience was a valuable chance to perform under the pressure of Championship conditions. The fact that the DVAC athletes won a total of 26 medals (10 Gold, 8 Silver and 8 Bronze) across the three days of competition and a majority of the athletes came away with either personal best performances or season best performances was evidence of success at the Valley.
Mon 26 Feb 2024

RESULTS ROUND UP_FEBRUARY 2024

Valley athletes have been competing in a range of Specialist Meets as well as AVSL. Listed below are their results.
Wed 14 Feb 2024

NARROW WIN IN ROUND 11 SETS UP PREMIERSHIP HOPES FOR DVAC

DVAC had 62 athletes (29 Female & 33 Male) compete in AVSL Round 11 and they earned a total of 44,386 points for the Round, enough to edge out Eaglehawk who finished on 42, 594 points. The DVAC total means that the ‘average’ score for 62 athletes was a healthy 715 points.
Sun 11 Feb 2024

VALLEY SCORES BIG IN ROUND 10 TO CLAIM TOP SPOT

The Diamond Valley Athletic Club has moved to top spot on the Premier Division ladder with a record score of 71,856 points in Round 10 of the Athletics Victoria Shield League. The call to athletes to support the DVAC decision to utilise the Powerplay in Round 10 attracted a season high 103 athletes (49 Female & 54 Male) to turn out and practice their skills & contribute to the total. Despite the hot conditions throughout the afternoon, there were still 31 DVAC runners who completed either the 30
Sun 04 Feb 2024

AVSL RD 9: IT'S TIGHT AT THE TOP

With the metropolitan venues at Werribee and Mt Evelyn, AVSL Rd 9 was always going to be a battle for DVAC to take the top points in the Premier Division. As it turned out, the 64 DVAC athletes (34 Female & 28 Male) did well to accumulate a total score of 45,595 points for the day, but it was no match for the might of Eaglehawk who dominated the round with 55,913 points.
Sun 21 Jan 2024

AVSL ROUND 8: PREMIER DIVISION POINTS TO THE VALLEY

The Diamond Valley Athletic Club is the defending Premier Division champion club and a win in Round 8 of the AVSL season has kept the hopes alive of being able to make it two in a row. It’s all on a knife edge as DVAC now sits eight points behind Eaglehawk on the Premier Division ladder and still needs to win three of the final four rounds of Shield including Round 10 when DVAC intends to use its Powerplay & double the points for that round.
Sun 14 Jan 2024

DECATHLON GOLD MEDALS TO ASHER & LALITH

Over two days of hard fought competition, Asher Andrews (Men Under 18) and Lalith Udugampala (Men 50+) have emerged as Decathlon Gold medallists at the 2024 Victorian Combined Events Championships held at the Lakeside Stadium on the first weekend in January. Chehan Udugampala (Men Under 16) joined his father at Lakeside and gained valuable experience by completing the MU16 Heptathlon. Conditions over the weekend were extremely testing with heat & humidity on the Saturday and heavy rain setting i
Mon 08 Jan 2024

SUPER SATURDAY AT THE LAKE

The Lakeside Stadium was a hive of activity on Saturday 6th January as the New Year of athletics kicked off with the Combined Events Championships, Round 2 & 3 of the AV Specialist groups, the High Velocity Club, AV Throwers, Rare Air and Pole Vault.
Mon 08 Jan 2024

CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR VALLEY ATHLETES IN ROUND 7

There were many athletes who left the competition in Round 7 of the AVSL season with the pleasure of having reached a special achievement on the eve of Christmas. The combined efforts of the 69 athletes (32 Female & 37 Male) produced a result that put DVAC on top of the Premier Division for the round and in a healthy position to strike for a repeat of the premiership it won in the previous season. By the end of the Round 7 program, DVAC was in top position having scored a total of 48,013 points,
Sun 17 Dec 2023

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