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.
