State Championships Entry Requirements and Progressions 2024/25

Little Athletics in NSW has a proud history that has an established Zone-Region-State progression system for entry into the State Championships. This allows more than 10,000 members from all parts of the state to participate in the State Championships qualifying pathway. We aspire to grow the sport to a point where this entry pathway system could be used for the state championships for all Little Athletics and Junior Athletics Age Groups. 

However, in this first year of the joint championships, we will deliver a hybrid model of the traditional progression system with the direct entry model traditionally delivered at Athletics NSW events.

For 2024/25, the Entry Requirements and Progressions system will be applied in the following way:

The NSW Athletics Partnership puts our Athletes and Centres/Clubs as the focus of everything we do and ensures that we will provide them with the best possible experience of Athletics and the best possible opportunity to have a lifelong journey within our sport.

We acknowledge that there will remain scope for further evolution and improvement to the structure of the Partnership as it continues to roll out in future years. Please keep an eye out as we will have more information such as the Summer Calendar and Championships Progressions coming out in the coming weeks, as well as specific rules, entry requirements, and more as it becomes available.

We look forward to seeing you at the upcoming events with NSW Athletics throughout the 2024/25 Season.