ATHLETES ARE REMINDED that entries for the Scottish National Combined Events and U17/U20 3000m Championships will close tomorrow (Friday 3rd July).

THE PERFORMANCE STAFF AND STRUCTURE at scottishathletics will be headed up by a new senior position of Head Coach, jointly funded by UKA and sportscotland, from the second half of 2009.  

NAIRN AAC IS THE THIRD CLUB WITHIN THE HIGHLAND ATHLETICS PARTNERSHIP, and the eighth club in Scotland, to achieve the scottishathletics Clubmark – the programme which reocgnises clubs who meet national standards of practice and provide a safe and effective structure for members.

THERE WERE A NUMBER OF OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES in the Highland Athletics Open Graded Grand Prix Meeting (OGM) – incorporating the second round of HIPPO - at Queen’s Park track on Saturday (June 20th).

UKA HAS NAMED 35 ATHLETES IN THE FIRST WAVE OF SELECTIONS for the European Under-20 Championships which will take place in Novi Sad, Serbia on 23-26 July 2009, including English Under-20 Championships silver medalists Jenny Tan (Fife AC) and Jo Moultrie (Victoria Park City of Glasgow) and brilliant gold medalist Beth Potter (VP-Glasgow).

UKA HAS NAMED 52 ATHLETES for the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for the European Under-23 Championships which will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania from 16th-19th July 2009, including seven Scots.

Dr Frank Dick OBE is the Chair of the recently announced Association of Scottish Athletics Coaches and President of the European Athletics Coaches Association - and also the driving force behind the 2009 International Festival of Athletics Coaching which will take place in Glasgow later this year (30th October-1st November).

Arnold Black, together with Colin Shields, is instrumental in the work of the Scottish Association of Track Statisticians (SATS) and has put together the Scottish Athletics Yearbook for the last 15 years. Now the pair have come up with the 'Black-Shields Rankings' - Scottish performance rankings covering the top 100 male and females combined and based on an athletes' best five performances over a rolling 12-month period - and Arnold has expanded on some of the principles in his blog, but without giving away all of his secrets.

scottishathletics Disability Development Officer Shona Malcolm doesn't ever stop. If there's athletics on, Shona's there, be it in an official or unofficial-official capacity - be it a junior league match or world cup meeting. She started in December 2007 then blinked, and before she knew it, it was June 2009.