2021 Carrick AC Membership

 

Carrick-on-Shannon Athletic Club is delighted to announce that it is now accepting membership for the 2021 season.

Unfortunately with the Covid-19 situation and the restrictions imposed by Sports Ireland and the Government, we have not been able to open our doors for our normal club activities at this time but we are starting the process of renewing existing club memberships and accepting new members.

This year we have moved our registration system to the Athletics Ireland Online Membership System which means that our members will be able to renew their memberships from the comfort of their own home and all without the need for our traditional membership night.

The link for the new Club membership portal can be accessed HERE

This new system will allow members access their membership details, update those details if need be, have access to their membership number and also enter national championships through the portal if they wish.

Our membership fees for the 2021 season are as follows:

Juvenile (U20 on December 31, 2002)         €28

Senior/Masters                                          €35

Juvenile Family (3 or more)                        €70

There are several ways of renewing your membership or applying to join the club.

2020 MEMBERS

For existing members, the club will send out a membership link via email to any club members whose email address is inputted into the system. Simply follow the link attached and pay your membership depending on your age category.

If you do not receive an email notification from the Athletics Ireland Membership system, contact Club Secretary John Connolly and provide your email address and an renewal notice will then be sent out.

FORMER MEMBERS

Depending on when you were last a member of the club, your details may still be stored in the system. 

NEW MEMBERS

For new members, the process is a bit more simple. Simply click onto the following link HERE and follow the instructions, an application to join the club will be lodged and approved by the club.

One note, we are NOT taking any new members aged 8 in 2021 until the situation becomes clearer regarding the Covid-19 situation. We do not take members younger than this age.

If the link is not showing up, the address is as follows:  https://membership.athleticsireland.ie/index.htm

If you have any queries, contact Club Secretary John Connolly at connollyjohnb@gmail.com

IMPORTANT - Carrick AC on Lockdown

 

As I'm sure you are all aware at this stage, the entire country is under a Level 5 Lockdown due to the worsening situation regarding Covid-19. First and foremost, we want everyone to be safe and healthy but unfortunately, the restrictions mean that we won't be returning for our new 2021 season under safe to do so.

That means there will be no organised club sessions for any of our members -juvenile, senior or master - until we get the go-ahead from Sport Ireland and Athletics Ireland.

Members are allowed to continue to train but all activity is restricted to individual training/personal exercise within 5 km of home while individuals may meet with one other household in outdoor settings when taking personal exercise.

In regard to Athletics Ireland insurance covers in place during Level 5 lockdown and club closure, Athletics Ireland have negotiated that all registered AI members will be covered by their AI personal accident insurance whilst undertaking club approved training in an individual capacity for injury resulting from an accident. Additionally, all AI registered members participating in online virtual coaching sessions by approved club coaches will also be covered by their AI personal accident insurance.

Although we are not open for training sessions yet, we will be opening up our new online club membership portal in the coming days so that all members can renew their membership for the 2021 season.

Stay safe and we will see you all soon.

- Carrick-on-Shannon AC committee

CARRICK AC JUVENILES RETURN TO TRAINING

 

We are delighted to announce that Juvenile training for existing members, both primary and post-primary, will be returning in the coming weeks.

To help us organise our training sessions and the numbers that can be safely accommodated under Covid guidelines, we are asking any the parents of any existing member intending on returning to training to fill out the attached online link below.

Groups will be organised into the following groups: (Days, times & venues will be notified to parents as soon as we have final figures:

• U11: Born 2010
• U12: Born 2009
• U13: Born 2008
• Born 2007 and older

We are also asking that a parent of each member supply a mobile phone number so that we can organise group communications through WhatsApp. This will enable us to distribute a weekly link to a health questionnaire for each child attending each training session and a weekly attendance sheet.

This is an essential part of our plan to return to training in a safe environment so we would please ask that all parents please fill out the form with their phone number to enable WhatsApp group messaging as soon as possible.

Thanks very much and we look forward to seeing everyone in the coming weeks
 
LINK: https://onlineregister.ie/carrick-athletic-club/members-details.html

CARRICK AC JUVENILES RETURN TO TRAINING

We in Carrick-on-Shannon Athletic Club are in the process of drawing up our plans for a return to training of our members in early to mid October but we will need your help.

Under current Government guidelines as they currently stand to prevent the transmission of Covid-19, training athletes indoors is simply not practical and as the Sports Complex will not be available due to its use for classrooms, our Primary School groups will be moving outdoors over the winter.

This will mean that our athletes will be divided into different groups based on the year of their birth so that we can comply with Government regulations on group sizes. These training sessions may take place at different times and different venues to what we are normally used to, but we are trying to accommodate our members, our coaches and comply with the Government regulations.

Unfortunately, with the logistics of trying to organise different sessions at various times and at different venues, we will be restricting our primary school group sessions to fully registered club members born in the years 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010 and we CANNOT take in any new members before the end of the athletic year on December 31. The situation regarding new members will be reviewed in January.

All of these measures are subject to whatever Government restrictions/Athletics Ireland guidelines are in place at the time but we are in the process of trying to determine how many members want to attend training, what venues we can use and what help we can get to organise the sessions.

We would ask the parents of our primary school members to inform our coaches and officials if their child will be returning to outdoor training.

More importantly, we will need more help than ever before from parents at training - we will need people willing to help our experienced teams of coaches with practical coaching (courses will be arranged by the club) and we need volunteers to help with the administrative work around contact tracing and the collection of fees and Covid-19 Questionnaires.

Unless we get extra help to assist us, it is unlikely that we will be able to hold any Primary School group training this year due to the restrictions and workload involved for our volunteers.

For our Post Primary group, we make the same request so that we can finalise if we need to have separate training nights for the various activity groups: i.e. sprint or distance running.

Please contact us at connollyjohnb@gmail.com if you are available to help us or via the WhatsApp group for your child’s training group before Tuesday, September 22, at 5pm.

We look forward to hearing from you.

 

IRISH LIFE HEALTH NATIONAL JUVENILE U17, 18 & 19 T&F

Athletics Ireland have announced details and the timetable for the National Juvenile U17 to 19 Track & Field Championships which will be held in Morton Stadium Dublin over the weekend of August 29/30.

With Covid-19 regulations, Athletics Ireland point out that this competition is subject to the government progressing to Phase 4 where 500 people will be allowed to gather outdoors.

The following regulations will also apply

• Entries through Regional secretary only. Please contact your region regarding the closing date for your region.

• Competition will take place in two separate sessions each day. There will be a strict requirement for athletes to leave the facility as soon as possible at the end of each session. The stadium will be cleared between sessions. For timetable please see HERE.

• No admission to the stadium  until allocated check in time for the session in which you are participation.

• Competition will be closed to all spectators.

• Athletes, officials, event staff and 1 adult per athlete only permitted on site.

• Accompanying adults must purchase tickets in advance for each session they wish to attend. (Details to be announced soon)

• There will be no parking available at Morton Stadium.

• Timetable and events at sessions may change depending on numbers of athletes entered to events.

• There will be no relay events at the Championships.

• Events will be live streamed on both days.

• The competition will have strict COVID 19 prevention protocol details of which will be announced in due course.

ANY CLUB ATHLETE WISHING TO COMPETE MUST CONTACT CLUB SECRETARY JOHN CONNOLLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

COMPETITION UPDATE

After a long Summer with no action on the track, road or anywhere else, plans are being put in place for a few meetings at Connacht and National level during the month of August.

CONNACHT COMPETITION

Connacht Athletics are planning a two day event over the weekend of August 15/16, with field events on the Saturday in Craughwell and track events in Athlone on the Sunday. This is NOT a championship event, there is no progression to National from this and no Connacht medals to be won.

It is simply an effort to provide some basic level of competition for our young athletes who have worked hard over the last few months and some preparation for older athletes who are intending to compete in the National Juvenile, Juniors, Seniors or Masters events later in the season.

Working on the assumption of a maximum 200 people allowed at a gathering and our event will conform to all HSE guidelines of which you should all now be familiar.

Competition will take place over two days in four age groups: U14, U15, U16 & U17/Senior/Masters and the events are as follows:

Saturday: Long Jump and Shot

Sunday: 100m, 800m and U17 & up 3000m

U14, U15 and U16 events will take place in the morning and U17 & older events events in the afternoon with a clear break between

There is a maximum of four entries per club in each age group, ie U14, U15, U16, U17 & older with a waiting list in operation. There may be flexibility on numbers depending entries while an athlete can only enter one event across the weekend, if an event remains unfilled then we can open entries again to all.

U14, U15 and U16 will compete in age groups. U17 & older will compete as one age group but seeded on times for track and throwers will use own weights for shot. Pacers are allowed but they have to enter as per all other athletes.

€5 per entry, clubs will be billed for their entries, no cash will be taken on the day. Closing dates for entries is Monday, August 10, and entries on a first come, first served basis.

Anyone thinking of entering must be 100% committed to competing due to the restrictions on the number of entries each club is allowed per event. Contact John Connolly if you wish to enter any of the events.

National Senior T&F - August 22/23

Athletics Ireland have also announced that the National Senior Championships incorporating the U23 Championships will be held over the weekend of August 22/23, at Morton Stadium in Dublin but the competition is subject to the government progressing to Phase 4 where 500 people will be allowed to gather outdoors.

A few points to note:

• Competition will be closed to all spectators

• Athletes, officials and event staff only permitted on site

• Competition will take place in two separate sessions each day. There will be a strict requirement for athletes to leave the facility as soon as possible at the end of each session. The stadium will be cleared between sessions

• There will be no parking available at Morton Stadium

• Athletes based overseas wishing to take part must have completed 14 days of self-isolation prior to the event and have proof of travel dates

• All athletes entered to the senior championships who are U23 (born 1998,1999,2000) will be automatically included in the U23 championships. Separate entry is not required

• U23 medals will be awarded on position in the final, if a medallist position(s) is not available in a track final then it/they will be awarded on the best time in the heats; An athlete may win a senior medal and U23 medal within the same track/field event

• Junior Men & Women 5000m Championships incorporated

Entries will open on Wednesday July 29, and close on August 12, with a late entry window available until August 16. No entries will be accepted after this date.

Timetable will be published when entries close, events may change sessions depending on numbers of athletes entered to events.

Events will be live streamed on both days.

Competition will be subject to strict COVID 19 prevention protocol, details of which will be announced in due course.

To enter please click HERE.

 

CARRICK AC RETURN TO ACTION

Carrick-on-Shannon AC are delighted to announce that we will resume club training for our Juvenile members (Born in the year 2007 or before) from next Tuesday, June 16.

In line with HSE and Covid-19 regulations in relation to Covid-19, all sessions will be limited to athletes born in the year 2007 or before while the total number of participants per session is 15, which also includes coaches. This will mean many challenges for our members and coaches so we are looking for your help.

To attend training next week and to help us assess demand for how many sessions we can put on, we are asking parents of all athletes under 18 years of age to contact either John Connolly (0879446961) or Siobhan Murtagh (0879677744) BY TEXT before this Friday, June 12, at 7pm.

Numbers will be limited due to the ratio of coaches to athletes and we will contact parents/athletes with further information to confirm final details of training.

We would also insist that each athlete adhere to the two metre rule, that there be no physical contact and that all attending training must have Hand sanitiser for their hands and face. The normal €3 fee per session will also apply

Before any athlete attends training, they or their parents must fill out the following form and return it to club coaches at training.

PLEASE REMEMBER ONLY CLUB MEMBERS WHO ARE BORN IN 2007 OR BEFORE AND WHO BOOK THEIR PLACE AT A TRAINING SESSION AND FILL IN THE ATTACHED QUESTIONAIRE WILL BE ALLOWED TAKE PART IN TRAINING.

To limit hand contact, please return the question by email to connollyjohnb@gmail.com before Monday June 15, 2020

Athletics Ireland - Covid 19 Screening Questionnaire 

To ensure the Safety & Health of all people interacting with our Club, all club members/parents/visitors must complete this Declaration Form PRIOR to entering 

Your Name: 

Your Mobile No (parents’ number if under 18): 

Date/Day and Time of your visit: 

Please answer all questions below - tick yes or no . 

1. Have you visited any of the countries outside Ireland excluding Northern Ireland?    Yes No 

2. Are you suffering any flu like symptoms/symptoms of coronavirus covid-19?    Yes No 

3. Are you experiencing any difficulty in breathing, shortness of breath?    Yes No 

4. Are you experiencing any fever-like/Temperature symptoms?     Yes No 

5. Did you consult a Doctor or other medical practitioner within the last 14 days ?    Yes No 

6. How are you feeling Healthwise?    Unwell Well 

7. Have you been in contact with someone who has visited an affected region in the past 14 days?    Yes No

8. Have been around someone with symptoms of Covid-19 in the last 14 days?    Yes No 

9. Is a member of your household self-isolating?    Yes No 

10. Are you in a period of self-isolation and/or cocooning under the current Health Policy Rules?     Yes No 

11. Are you in a high-risk health category?    Yes No 

12. Are you under 13 years of age or 70 years of age or over?     Yes No 

If you have answered “YES” to any of the questions above or have indicated to us that you have symptoms of COVID- 19 you should not attend the athletics club. You are prohibited from entering or using the grounds/facilities and advised to seek professional medical help/assistance. 

NOTE: When on site, please adhere to our on-site standard processes/procedures regarding infection control, i.e. social distancing, hand washing/hand sanitising and general coughing/sneezing etiquette? 

Signature Visitor : ................................................................ Date: ..............................

Signature of Parent/Guardian required for under 18s ...........................................