IMPORTANT 2012 DATES TO REMEMBER (See the CALENDAR page for more information)

16th-17th JUN - LAQ Conference, Gold Coast 29JUL - Sunshine Coast University Annual Winter Track & Field Carnival 19th AUG - DBLA Sunday Sign-on Day. 24th AUG - DBLA Friday Night Sign-on and Orientation 31th AUG - DBLA Start of Friday Night Athletic Competition

Weekly Friday Night Program of Events for each Age Group are available from the Season Menu and also listed for each Friday night in the Calendar Menu.

All members, both adults and athletes are encouraged to read our Centre Yearbook in conjunction with the Centre and LAQ Constitutions plus the LAQ Association Yearbook. Together these books provide an understanding of the rules & guidelines of Little Athletics.

2012 WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Congratulations to one of our ex DBLA members, Mitchell Cooper who has just been selected for Discus in the Australian Team for the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona, Spain on the 10th-15th July.  Well done Mitch.

Congratulations to Bailey Johnston (U13), Jordan Guy (U13), Dale Hebbard (U15), Shemaiah James (U15) and the Queensland State Team on their achievements at the ALACs held in Hobart a couple of weeks ago. The U13 QLD Team achieved a 4th place overall and also 4th in the Teams Handicap.
The QLD Team placed 2nd in the U15 Multi-event Championships.

Q U E E N S L A N D E R

Despite being a bit nippy, apparently the coldest day of the week, our four athletes did us proud. 
Bailey finished the day with a BRONZE medal in the 400M and 8th in the 800M.
Jordan placed 6th in the 4x100M Relay, 7th in the TripleJump, 8th in the 200M, and 9th in the LongJump.

Dale and Shemaiah both contested the U15 Mixed 4 x 100M Relay event (two girls & two boys) and won GOLD for QLD with a new record time.
Dale contested the U15 Pentathlon and achieved a 4th placing overall, just missing out on Bronze by 23 points.  Dale's point score of 3513 points was also a QLD record (yet to be ratified).
Shemaiah also competed in the U15 Pentathlon, achieving a 5th place overall.
The point margin between 1st and 4th was only 70 points, which was close considering the winner ended up with 3583 points.

Well done to our boys, to have four athletes representing our Centre was fantastic.  Great effort guys!!!!

Congratulations to all those athletes who competed recently at the LAQ State Championships in Brisbane. Those representing the Centre did exceptionally well with our best ever result, winning a total of 45 medals including 21 GOLD, 16 SILVER and 8 BRONZE.  We also achieved 5 QLD Best Performances and 4 athletes were selected in the QLD State Team, plus to top it off we won the boys George Harvey State Trophy.

Our Centre sent 65 athletes to the Championships and competed in 150 events, gained 80 top-eight placings in both Track and Field events with many PBs also being achieved.

Well done to all who competed, especially Darcy Roper U14 Boys, three Gold medals, a QBP and one Silver medal, OUTSTANDING!!!!

Congratulations also to Lucas Lutter(U11B), Shemaiah James(U15B), Patrick Patton(U17B) and Jade McNaughton(U17G) who also achieved Qld Best Performaces (QBP) during the Championships.

Congratulations to Dale Hebbard (U15B) who won the annual George Harvey State Award, well done Dale.

Of course we can't forget a special mention and congratulations to the following 4 athletes selected to represent QLD at the Australian Little Athletic Championships in Hobart next month. They were:
Jordan Guy (U13B) who was selected in Long and Triple Jumps plus the Relay;
Bailey Johnston (U13B) who was selected in the 400M and 800M, and;
Dale Hebbard (U15B) and Shemaiah James (U15B) who were both selected for the Pentathlon.

Well done Guys.

Click on RESULTS to download the full results from the State Championships.

Individual medal winners at the Championships were:

We hope that everyone will join us for our Trophy Presentation day on Sunday 15th April commencing at 10am. Our Trophy Presentation day is the envy of most other Centres in QLD with FREE carnival rides and a Sausage Sizzle along with great trophies for ALL athletes (must meet financial, participation and parent work requirements).

We also have Fairy Floss & Snow Cones for $1.

A flyer and program for the day is downloadable here

In case of rain or the ground is unfit for our Presentation day, our backup venue is the undercover area at the Burpengary State School. Details will be in this section of the website as well as a message on our answering machine no later than 8am on the day if we need to change venues. The program will not change with the exception of no rides and a starting time of 12.00noon with a BBQ, 1pm AGM and 2pm Presentations.

END OF DECEPTION BAY 2011/2012 SUMMER SEASON

The 2011/2012 DBLA athletic season has now finished.  After a very fulfilling season with only a couple of rained out nights, the most unfortunate being the final night.

We managed to get in 22 weeks of competition with 392 athletes producing heaps of PBs week-in, week-out. We also had great representations at the various carnivals across the SouthEast bringing home a swag of medals especially from the Suncoast Regional Carnival held at Caboolture back in February. We also competed in our first Inter-Centre competition in Bundaberg for athletes and parents and came home with all three winning Shields on offer. Next season it's being held in Gympie and we hope to see more competitiors make the trip north.

Well done to all the athletes who came along on Friday nights and at other various carnivals during the season, we hope you achieved what you wanted to achieve for the season and had lots of fun.
Also, A big thank-you to all the parents who helped out tirelessly during Friday nights, at Regionals, at our Open Day and during our Fundraisers. We can't function without the help of the parents, thankyou again.

Our sign-on dates for next season are:
Sunday 19th August between 10.00am - 2.00pm at Zammit Oval, and;
Friday 24th August between 5.30pm - 7.30pm at Zammit Oval. This will also double as an orientation night for new families to the Centre.

Our first Friday night of competition will be Friday 31st August starting at 5.50pm.

Please remember that if you have any ideas or comments, good or bad, please send them to the Centre's Email address.

Results from DBLA Open Day Carnival

The results are in. Click here and be transported to the Open Day Page.

The Winner of our Major Car Raffle drawn back in December

The winner of the brand new Proton S16G 1.3 sedan valued at $15000 supported by Ross Starkey Automotive at Deception Bay was K. Raiti Buranda, Qld.