Officials' magazine 'For the Record'

The Spring 2011 edition of the England Athletics Officials' magazine 'For the Record' is now out, and can be downloaded from the England Athetics website by following this link. http://www.englandathletics.org/page.asp?section=1000§ionTitle=For The Record 
It contains relevant news and articles for officials of all levels and disciplines and this edition has details of five new booklets which have been produced for new officials wanting to know where to begin.
Hard copies are also available via post from Nicloa Evans. Email Nicloa at nevans@englandathletics.org .


Photo Finish course

UKA are inviting interest from officials in Kent, Surrey and Sussex with a view to putting on a Photo Finish course somewhere in our corner of the country later in the year. 

There are no proposed dates yet but first of all they need to know if there is sufficient interest in the area to make a course viable.  Clearly this is of interest mainly to timekeepers and track judges but anyone else interested in following this particular discipline can do so.

Anyone interested please let John Gill know as soon as possible so that he can report back to UKA while the iron is still hot.  E-mail to puffins70@talktalk.net

Tutor shortage

There is a shortage of officials here in Sussex, not helped by the fact that we have only one tutor in the county.  It would make providing courses much easier if we had more qualified tutors available to present courses.  A Level 1 tutor would normally present a general short course covering the whole of lower level officiating.  Moving up from there, ideally we would have at least one tutor for each of the four basic disciplines of starter/marksman, timekeeper, track judge and field judge who would be able to present courses at  Level 2. 

Sussex Officials Secretary, John Gill, needs to know whether anyone in the county is interested in becoming a tutor.  A tutor course would probably have to take place after the main season has finished, and at this point he could try and get UKA to arrange one in Sussex if there is sufficient demand. Please contact John on puffins70@talktalk.net if interested.