Month: July 2015

Courtesy of our friends at London Athletics, we are promoting reduced costs for a collection of courses this summer.   Coaching Assistant – £50 = 22/23rd August. LiRF course – £50 = 5th September Disability Inclusion Training course – £10 = 6th September AthleFIT course – £10 = 6th September Getting more qualified coaches into university clubs is crucial to the development of athletics in the city. For more details and to book your place (spaces are limited!) contact Timothy Howells (thowells@englandathletics.org)

LCAS and the cross country London Colleges League (LCL) will join together to form the London Universities and Colleges Athletics Association (LUCA), which will manage both competitions from the start of the 15/16 season. London will become the first city in the UK to have it’s own regional university-specific athletics body, which will have responsibilties beyond organizing the LCL and LCAS. A constitutional committee formed of LCL manager, Jonny Laybourn, LCAS manager, James Findon and Athletics Youth Advisory Group Chairperson, Jacob Hood are currently working on plans to establish the new organisation. Findon […]

King’s College London have won the first ever London Colleges Athletics Series at the final in Battersea, The third and final LCAS Grand Prix was a tense affair for series founders King’s College and Imperial College London – both of whom were in touching distance of the series title. Boosted by the presence of GB junior international, Laviai Neilsen, King’s took advantage of an inspired team and won the title. The day started with technical difficulties with the timing equipment but the glorious weather kept athletes and spectators in high spirits. […]