Sats Challenge - Club of the Year 2019

Arnold Black, (Scottish Athletics Statistician) has for the first time looked at rankings for the track and field clubs in the SATS Challenge.

The approach was straightforward: from his annual athlete rankings he’s awarded the athlete's club 10 points if their athlete is top of their event rankings, down to 1 point for the 10th placed athlete.

Scoring was on the basis of first-claim club members with the following exceptions: (1) Glasgow City AC, a team set up for the British League are excluded; (2) Universities and Schools are excluded; (3) Where an athlete's first-claim club is Glasgow City AC or a non-Scottish club, and where they are affiliated to a Scottish club AND competed for that club, their points are allocated to the Scottish club.

Victoria Park did exceptionally well, being 1^st in both the U17 and U15 age groups, 2^nd in the Senior age group, 3^rd in the U13 age group and 5^th in the U20 age group.  Only Edinburgh had a greater overall points total. 

It not only displays how well we exceeded our expectations last year but reveals why we should be so optimistic for the years ahead.

Coronavirus - Training Cancelled

In light of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and after consideration of the advice from Scottish Athletics and the UK Government, the committee has decided to suspend all club coaching sessions until further notice.

The numbers attending many of our club sessions regularly exceed 100 which in the current climate is likely to increase the risk of person to person transmission of the virus.

Scotstoun Stadium remains open and individuals will still be able to train within the facility at their discretion.

Some event groups may want to continue their sessions and that decision will have to be made by the individual athletes, parents and coaches.  Scottish Athletics gave the following advice today: "We recommend that all formal club/group training sessions be cancelled for the time being but the situation will be monitored and reviewed on a week-by-week basis and until the recommendations on social contact are better understood".

The circumstances we find ourselves in is unlikely to improve for some time and as a result, we’ve decided to cancel all of the athletes monthly training fees.  Members will still be able to use their track access cards until the end of the current month.  Members don’t need to take any action on LoveAdmin.  If you do visit the Stadium after the 31^st of March, you’ll have to pay for access with cash at the reception.

We hope that everyone will retain their memberships meantime.  Some annual membership fees may become due during the suspension and we will continue to ask for payment.

We remain hopeful that our athletes will be able to compete in some competitions or championships during the upcoming summer season and our team managers will keep everyone aware of any opportunities.

We will also sadly, have to cancel the spring holiday camps that were due to start on Monday the 6^th of April and the next block of the Run, Jump and Throw Club that was due to start on Saturday the 25^th of April.  For those who had already booked places, we will arrange a full refund as soon as possible.

When the situation has improved enough for the club to resume its activities at Scotstoun we’ll notify the membership by email and on the club website at: www.vp-glasgow.com.  Another point of contact that is popular with our members is our Facebook Group which can be found at this link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/VPGlasgow/

During this enforced break, we hope that everyone remains fit and healthy and we look forward to seeing you all back at Scotstoun in the not too distant future.

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Club Manager

Scotstoun Open

We've had a confirmed case of the Coronavirus at Scotstoun Stadium. One of the Scottish women's International rugby players has fallen ill.  As a result of this, today’s Rugby Match has been cancelled.

The infected player has been in the Stadium training this week and we don't know where she's been or what she’s touched.  Scottish Rugby have said that the player is being treated in a healthcare facility but is "otherwise well".

We’ve cancelled the Saturday morning Run, Jump and Throw Club and no one will be allowed access to the stadium ahead of a deep clean.

There’s every likelihood that the rugby players used a different area of the stadium and different doors, but the staff will have shared these areas.

I’ll be having follow up conversations with the management today and tomorrow and I’ll update when we have more information.

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In an email from Glasgow Life, families were told that the decision to temporarily close the facility was taken in the "interests of the safety of staff and public".

"In conjunction with, and on the advice of, the appropriate public health agencies, we will reopen when it is deemed safe to do so," it said.

"The safety of everyone who uses or works at Scotstoun is our absolute priority and it will remain closed while we take appropriate cleaning measures.

"It will only reopen when appropriate public health agencies deem it safe."

Summer Fixture List 2020

Below are the dates and venues of this seasons Championships and League Matches.  A complete list is available on the Scottish Athletics Events page.

 The full addresses of the various venues are listed at the bottom of the page.

 The full addresses of the various venues are listed below.