In a golden weekend for Melbourne University Athletics Club, two MUAC athletes, Jack Ingram and Jarod Pageot, have claimed national championships at the 2010 Australian Junior Athletics Championships in Sydney. Jack Ingram took out the Under 17 Pole Vault with 4.15m, a new personal best. Jarrod Pageot won the Under 20 Long Jump, leaping 7.36m in round 5, performing well under pressure to take the gold medal. He is now closing in on 7.50m, the world junior championships qualifying standard.

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A deluge of high quality track and field has swept over Melbourne at the start of March and Melbourne University Athletics Club has been a big part of it.

Jarrod Pageot continued his good long jump form with a 7.07m jump at the High Velocity Club 3 meet at Box Hill and followed it up with a massive 7.27m PB at Olympic Park for the Victorian Youth Track and Field Championships.   > read more

Tom Barnes, Australian World Cup team member, Melbourne University PhD student and Melbourne University Athletics Club member has continued his successful 2010 with a silver medal at the Victorian 5000m Walk Championships at Olympic Park on Thursday, 18^th of February.  Not long after being selected for the Australian Team for the 50km 2010 Walk World Cup in Chihuahua, Mexico, Barnes dueled with Olympian Chris Erickson over 12 and a half laps of the Olympic Park track to record a time of 21:29.

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Shield Final Report

Melbourne University Athletics completed a successful interclub season with two teams enjoying podium finishes at the Athletics Victoria Shield Final on Saturday, 13^th of February at Rieschieks Reserve, Doncaster.  MUAC had teams in four of the five open divisions and was one of only three clubs in Victoria with a team in the Division 1 final for women and men.  Forty MUAC athletes ran, jumped, threw and walked in the pursuit of team and personal glory at the pinnacle of the Athletics Victoria interclub track and field competition.  > read more

Region Final Report

Melbourne University Athletics Club has continued its barnstorming run through the Athletics Victoria Shield Competition with four of the five MUAC teams qualifying for the state wide Shield Final.  Competition was fierce at Aberfeldie on Saturday, the 6^th of February for the Athletics Victoria North West Region Final and the MUAC athletes were up to the challenge.

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