Tracey Weetman
Tracey Weetman retired and relocated with her husband from Staffordshire to Ynys Mon in 2020. Having turned up at Menai Track and Field to offer her services, she is now a very active volunteer and ha...
Ayo Afolabi
Do you have an athletics background? I have two children who take part in athletics at our local club, Cardiff Archers. I used to do some athletics in high school myself so when I was looking for some...
Hedydd Davies
In July 1952 I was listening on the wireless to Alun Williams’s commentary on the 1952 Olympic Games marathon in Helsinki. ‘And into the stadium comes a balding figure in a red vest with number 90...
Eleanor and Andrew Clough
Andrew enjoyed athletics at school in North Derbyshire … triple jump, discus and shot. Hated running, but liked walking. There seemed to be no system to push youngsters towards the local clubs, but ...
Christine Vorres
My Officiating Journey Becoming an Endurance Official was never really something that I consciously decided to do – maybe because at grassroots club level where I have been involved in endurance eve...
Derek Redfern
My Journey Well, who would have thought it? My journey, in athletics’ officiating began in 1974 when as a young and naive probationary school teacher in their first term in a Secondary School P.E. D...
Richard Cotham
Well thinking back it all started like so many other officials via their children. In my case it was the local primary schools cross country competition where if your child finished in the top ten th...
Rod Davies
My Officiating Journey In the final years of the 20th Century, when all we had to worry about in those simple times was the possibility of the Millennium Bug destroying all IT systems, I began to offe...
John Tanner
My athletics journey, as opposed to officiating, started in the South London Business Houses League where I was persuaded to join my company’s athletic club. Within two years I had become club secre...
Ros Alterman
From the age of 15 my hobby was tenpin bowling and I competed in two leagues every week until the early nineties. My highlight was representing GB at the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1987 w...
Ella Hunter
Hi, my name is Ella Hunter and I have been a member of Wrexham Athletics Club for nine years. I compete regularly for the club in Northern League and Cheshire League matches which I really enjoy. I ha...
Cath Alford
I followed my dad (Bill Kingsbury M.B.E.) and elder brothers into the sport of athletics. My dad was a founder member of the Rhondda Athletics Club and also a club coach. He competed in athletics for...
Derek Crowder
My athletics life by Derek Crowder Full edition you can read HERE In May 1981, I watched the televised first London Marathon and decided I would love to take part. I joined Bridgend YMCA running ...
Ted Johnson
On joining the Royal Navy in 1958 I became involved with the RN Athletic Cub, of which I am a Life Member, as an athlete. I did no coaching or officiating during this time. On leaving active service i...
Eban Geal
Eban, is a qualified level 1 Field Judge official working towards his level 2 qualification. Despite being only 18 years of age Eban has already officiated at over 10 regional and national competitio...
Chris Pruski
I started officiating with Welsh Athletics from December 2013. Having been an athlete with Coventry Godiva, Cardiff, Stevenage and North Herts many years ago, I joined Swansea Harriers in 2014 to help...
Chris Price
My Officiating Journey I started officiating in athletics in August 2005 whilst watching my son, Marcus, compete in a Welsh Junior League match at the old track in Aberdare. Dave Lester asked me to he...
Family journey - The Hooper's
Club Athletes to Officials a family affair. Our officiating journeys more formally started around 2010, but we had been helping out for many years prior to this. My love affair with athletics starte...
Bernie Jones
I have began running when I was 14, back in 1974, and was fortunate to have some success fairly quickly including representing Welsh Schools at the British Schools International Cross Country at Arrow...
Steve Leach
My journey in the world of athletics started in May 1996 when our sons Alex and Jason were 10 and 9 respectively and came home from Malpas Church in Wales Primary School with everyone buzzing about Ne...