About the club

Old Carey is a cross country club catering for all male and female athletes. Established in 1963 as a summer track club, the cross country club began in the 1960’s. Initially catering for past Carey Grammar students, it has since become an inclusive club welcoming athletes from all schools and clubs.

Old Carey competes in the Associated Public Schools Old Collegians Association. This 13 event, 10 club competition is held between April and September each year. Between 100 - 200 athletes compete for team points and individual trophies for men and women, both fastest times and handicaps. Distances range from 5km - 16km including three relays.

Events cater for all ages and standards. Athletes can compete both in the Athletics Victoria (AV) cross country season as well as the APSOC season, as the two associations run events on alternate Saturdays. The APSOC competition is renowned for its informality, friendliness and big afternoon teas held at the conclusion of each race.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Hooley Relays @ Gilwell Park

The annual relays at Gilwell Park on July 25 saw a tightly contested men’s race with O/Scotch snatching a win from O/Haileybury despite an end of race protest from the latter. O/Haileybury was leading the event until one of its relay runners took a wrong turn and ran off course. Not the first time or the last time this will occur in a XC race. O/Scotch took full advantage of the mistake to go on and win the race by a narrow margin. in the women’s event, O/Haileybury had a surprise win over the strong O/Xavier team. The depth and strength of OX women make them an unbeatable combination.
O/Carey had strong representation with 4 teams in the men’s and women’s races.
Our Div 1 men’s team finished in 5th position, Div 2 team in 3rd position and 11th position. Our women finished in 6th position. With injuries and unavailability our women have had a difficult season so it was great that we able to field a women’s team-thanks to Erin, Nicole and Kari.
Fastest individual OC runs came from Chris Papadakis and Erin Carter.
Also great effort from Norma Gonzalez who despite her pending delivery date attended the race as a course marshal. We now have a 3 week break until the next race the Williamson 6k at Haileybury College, Berwick.