Great to see our masters being nominated again for the NSW Masters Awards to be held on Sunday 15 March. June Lowe, Mary Thomas, Gianna Mogentale, and Diane O’Toole

Illawarra Blue Stars’ Junior athletes came up against some of the best junior talent NSW has seen for some time when they contested the NSW State Youth Titles. Held at

The three-day championship meet for the NSW masters finished up with two days, with the final day, Sunday, being postponed to a day to be announced. Torrential rain, on a continual basis, and strong gusty winds were the reason behind the final day~

Gianna Mogentale has taken out the “Best on Ground” again for the 5th consecutive time at the recently held Armidale Gala Day. A strong supporter of this event, Gianna has once again defeated athletes to take out this award which is judged on~

Whilst on Masters, congratulations to Mary Thomas, Gianna Mogentale, June Lowe and Di O’Toole being nominated for the NSW Masters Award, with the presentation to be held in March. Mogentale has been nominated for jumps, sprints and~

Congratulations must also go to our dual registered athletes who have competed in tough conditions to try and move forward to the State Little A’s titles. There were some great performances from our members, and combining their State Little~

The month of January was one of disruption for all Illawarra Blue Star’s athletes, but it has been a month of great results and

The Illawarra Track Challenge held on Saturday 11 January 2020 at the Kerryn McCann Athletic Centre was once again an outstanding success. Entries were up from~

Congratulations to one of our favourite members, June Lowe who was bestowed with an OAM award for her work with the Indigenous people of the Illawarra.  This caps off a wonderful week~

Looking through the Masters’ records I found that our own club member, and Master’s “champ” Gianna Mogentale, has one of the most impressive records that any athlete

Illawarra Blue Stars have always had a great reputation of not only supporting the NSW Relay titles but doing very well, and especially against the much bigger

Illawarra Blue Stars aims to treat all athletes the same, whether they can run faster, throw further, or jump and run longer. Our club is designed for this and it is the encouragement that can make an athlete improve and meet the standard that they have set

Meanwhile some of our masters were taking part in two major meets. Gianna Mogentale and John Lamb ventured over to Adelaide to contest the Australian Masters Games and came home with a bag of medals. Gianna won her age division over

The NSW All Schools, held over 4 days, produced some outstanding junior competition and if the trend continues, NSW will hopefully see some outstanding U20 talent, then hopefully onto senior ranks. With the World Open championships just

The club has announced they will conduct a barbecue each third round of competition, to enable members to relax and join in and mix with old and new members.  Put this in your diary with

Great to see a number of new members front up to join IBS for the summer season. Former Nowra sprinter Sara De Vries will don the dark blue/light blue this year and will be a force in Country titles and will certainly add to the club’s open women.  Good to see

The Masters throwers will take to the track on home territory when they compete in the Australian Masters Throws competition. Held over the long weekend in October, at Kerryn McCann Athletic Centre, the club is expected to have their

Over the next few weeks of the summer season 2019/2020, athletes will be ironing out the cobwebs ready for a full season of track and field. This was evident at IBS opening rounds of competition when many athletes, back from a break or off the back of the Schools

Athletes, both new and old, are asked to be at the Kerryn McCann Athletic Centre by 2.00 pm for first events to commence right on 2.30 pm.  Each round events will be conducted from U8 right through to

had in McKay in the Oceania Masters Championship. Thrower Mary Thomas dominated her age bracket winning her hammer in a NSW record, shot with an Oceania and State record, discus in State