Young Official Ayo Afolabi featured by UK Athletics as part of their 'Meet the Officials' series: Read about her journey here. 

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 n...

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,...

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...

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....

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 te...

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...

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 s...

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...

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...

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...

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 Y...

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, 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 compet...

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...

Wales youngest Track Official Hello my name is Daniel Mckerlich. I am 20 years old and have learning difficulties, ADHD, Dyspraxia and hearing loss. I went to Bryn Deri primary school and Radyr Compre...

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...

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 st...

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...

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...