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In 2001 the club initiated a program for 6 to 8 year olds called the Track Rascals program. The purpose of this program was to introduce younger persons to the sport of athletics in a friendly and non-competitive manner. The emphasis is on having fun and developing physically, but at the same time the participants are shown some of the basic aspects of track and field.
Following an exploratory program in 2001, Pen Track’s first full Track Rascals program ran for 5 weeks from April 2-May 2, 2002 with, eventually, 16 participants. In 2003 the program ran for five weeks with 13 participants and in 2004 and 2005 with 22 participants. In 2006 the program had 34 participants and in 2007 it had 39 participants indicating the popularity of the program.
The Track Rascals program will be run again in the Spring of 2008.
Parental support was particularly encouraging, with approximately 2 dozen present at the closing session where the Track Rascals were presented with a T-Shirt and a certificate
What Track Rascals received in the program was basic instruction about and participation in activities associated solely with the normal track & field program.
(Click here for detailed program).
On January 22, 2005 Tom Dingle attended the AGM of BC Athletics and gave a 20 minute presentation on our Track Rascals Program. A copy of this presentation is posted here as a Microsoft Power Point File (10Mb). You can read the full version by clicking here. A shortened Power Point version (compressed slides and no pictures) can be downloaded by clicking here. Click here to view shortened version in HTML
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