Juniors

Sphinx AC has a thriving, award-winning Junior Section which meets every Monday at 7:00 pm at Lyng Hall School on Blackberry Lane in Wyken (CV2 3JS). The minimum age, as stipulated by UK Athletics, is 8 years old.

The juniors have exclusive use of the gym and the floodlit all-weather track facilities.

There is ample room at the trackside for parents to spectate, which most do.

The juniors are grouped by age/ability and each group is led by UKATHLETICS-qualified coaches who have all been CRB checked.

There is an annual subscription of £15 to join the Club plus £1 for each track session. For non-members the track session costs £2.

Sphinx AC want to keep the juniors involved in athletics for as long as possible so the emphasis is on enjoyment and for the younger ones on endurance-based games. We never force anyone to take part in a training session, or a race, that they don’t want to do. We like everyone to enjoy what they are doing. However, if a junior wants to be Olympic champion we will also do whatever we can to help that child to achieve that ambition!

We have juniors who are happy to meet socially for some physical exercise and we have juniors who have appeared in National Championships and gone on to represent Coventry in the International Childrens Games in countries from Hungary to America.

We are members of the West Midlands Young Athletes Cross-Country League which consists of 5 races between October and February (these are the muddy ones!) and also the Heart of England Track and Field League which consists of 3 meetings over the Summer (these are the rainy ones!)

The juniors also enter various fun runs and open track meetings as and when they occur and we find that they are more inclined to enter and do well in races when they are away on holiday – whether that’s Devon or Australia!

We have another training session at 7:00 pm on a Wednesday at the Memorial Park but we would encourage the youngsters to come a Monday night to Lyng Hall to meet everyone first. There's lots that we could tell you but the best thing is to come on a Monday night – you’ll love it!