State Team
2025 LAQ State Team Guidelines
Little Athletics Queensland is excited to announce its guidelines for the 2025 Coles Australian Little Athletics Championships to be held in Adelaide. This information is intended for U13, U14 and U15 athletes only. Please note changes have been made since last year to the Team composition and selection.
THE TEAM
The Team will comprise of up to 106 athletes in the U13, U14 and U15 age groups as well as up to 13 Managers. LAQ is offering a full team experience for selected athletes in 2025. This means all athletes and managers will travel and accommodate together for the duration of the trip, which will take place from Friday 25th – Monday 28th April 2025. As this is a full team experience, no athlete will be allowed to stay with a parent or family, unless necessary for Multi Class athletes. There will be no exceptions to this.
The breakdown for each age group is as follows:
Individual Events
U13, U14 & U15: 32 able bodied (16 per gender) per age group and up to 2 Multi Class athletes (total) per age group
Combined Events
U15: 4 athletes (2 per gender) for the Combined Event competition. U15 athletes cannot compete in both the individual and combined event competitions, they can only compete in one.
ELIGIBILITY
Athletes must satisfy the following criteria in the year of selection.
- All U13, U14 and U15 athletes competing in individual events must attend their respective Regional Championships and have attended at least four of their Little Athletics actual Centre competition days prior to these Regional Championships. They must also attend and compete at the LAQ State Championships in the year of selection.
- U15 Combined Event athletes must have attended at least four of their Little Athletics actual Centre competition days prior to the Regional Championships. They must attend and compete in the Heptathlon event at either the LAQ Winter Carnival or LAQ Combined Event Championships.
- There will be no selections based on medical or compassionate grounds. Athletes that do not meet all eligibility criteria will not be considered for selection.
SELECTION FOR ALL ATHLETES
U13, U14 and U15 athletes competing in individual events will be selected based on their results from the 2025 LAQ State Championships, which will be held in Brisbane on the 21st – 23rd March.
Athletes will be selected based on their ability to contribute points to our team. Placing 1st, 2nd or 3rd does not guarantee selection. Because of the limited team size, generally, athletes will not be selected for one event only, therefore, should endeavour to compete in as many events as they can to increase their opportunity of selection in the State Team. Note, this is different to the selection process last year.
Multi Class athletes must also compete at the 2025 LAQ State Championships and are required to achieve the McDonald’s achievement award blue level standard to be considered for selection. Placing at these Championships does not guarantee selection for Multi Class athletes.
For U15 Combined Event athletes, selection will take place based on results from the 2025 LAQ Combined Event Championships or 2024 LAQ Winter Carnival. Athletes who finish 1st, 2nd and 3rd at the LAQ Combined Event Championships or LAQ Winter Carnival will be eligible for selection, with priority of selection given to the top 2 athletes with the highest overall point score from both competitions.
A maximum of 2 athletes will be selected per event. In addition to the competitions listed above for selection, if necessary, selectors may take performances at other recently held LAQ sanctioned competitions into consideration in the final selection process. There will be NO selections based on medical or compassionate grounds.
EVENTS
A full list of events at the Australian Little Athletics Championships can be found here.
COSTS
LAQ is providing a full team experience for athletes. This means athletes and managers will travel and accommodate together in Adelaide. If you do not agree for your child to take part in the team experience, your child will not be able to accept a position on the team.
The cost for all athletes is $2100 (approximately). This covers flights from Brisbane – Adelaide return, accommodation, ground transport, meals, uniforms, manager fees and team camp costs. Athletes will accommodate with the team for 3 nights (Friday, Saturday and Sunday).
Parents of Multi Class athletes must travel and accommodate with the team if their child takes daily medication or requires assistance in their daily tasks. The cost for Multi Class parents is $1,350, which covers return flights from Brisbane – Adelaide, accommodation, ground transport and meals at the accommodation. Note this is the amount for parents only.
For those athletes who accept a position in the Team, full payment will be required by Tuesday 1st April to secure your position in the Team. If payment is not received by this date, your position may be offered to another athlete.
HOW WILL I KNOW IF MY ATHLETE HAS BEEN SELECTED?
All athletes will be notified of their selection in the team on Monday 24th March. LAQ will contact you by phone and email to advise of your selection. It is our intention to have the whole team finalised and all athletes advised by Friday 28th March.
Please do not contact LAQ to ask if your child has been selected. If your child is selected in the team, we will contact you. With such a large team, this process will take us some time to complete and we appreciate your patience.
TEAM MANAGERS
Up to 13 Team Managers will be selected as part of the team. Managers will travel and accommodate with the athletes are in complete control of the team while they are away.
MORE INFORMATION
Please contact Shannon Kruger in the LAQ Office on 3892 9400 if you have any questions or require further information.
STATE TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT
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