Corroboree Gift & Christmas Party See calendar

Saturday, 13 December 2025
8:30am - 11am

Where: Dickson Playing Fields

Eric and Joyce Boyson Corroboree Gift

Named after our club founders, the Gift is a handicapped 100m event where the fastest person in each heat starts at the 100m mark and everyone else gets a head start depending on their handicap. The goal is that everyone crosses the line at the same time, making life extremely hard for our judges. The winner of each heat will go on to a final. We have a girls and a boys events divided into two age groups; U6-U9 and U10-U17.

Wear your brightest and most colourful Xmas outfits, you do not need to wear your Corroboree Shirt. We have coloured bibs for each lane to help us work out who won and it looks great.

We love this event because kids who don’t normally finish first, often win the medals… and they love it.

Note: Friday night heats on offer!

To help run the Gift more efficiently this year, we will be running some heats on the Friday evening (12 December 6pm – 8pm) as well as the Saturday morning (13 December).

We’d love it if lots of you can come along the Friday night and enjoy our first-ever Twilight event! If you make it through to the final on Saturday you’ll have the advantage of competing with fresh legs, plus you get to run your heat “without the heat”! Once you’ve run you’ll be free to leave, so it will be a quick evening.

The Ruud Relays

This is a six person relay team race named after our awesome tech official life member Ruud van Scheppingen – we have a boys and a girls relay. Each teams 100m times are added up and teams are then handicapped by starting a number of seconds behind the first team This could be up to a minute for the Senior teams.

When you enter the Gift below, there is a checkbox that asks if you want to be considered for the Ruud Relay teams. The hardest part about this event is people who enter and don’t show up and everything has to be recalculated. Only check this box if you are 100% certain you will be there on Saturday. Six kids from each age group will be drawn out of a hat to make up their respective teams.

Takken Dash and Sutton Sprint (aka Mum and Dads race)

This is a 100m dash (or sprint) for the Mums and Dads. Named after two Corroboree life members, Andrew Sutton and Ingrid Takken, prestige is on the line here as you show your kids how it’s done. Please note, the insurers will NOT cover us for this event (I am not kidding) so enter at your own risk. No pre-entry required, just turn up at the start line when the event is called.

Christmas Party

Froglets & little ones

A dedicated Christmas hour of fun (9-10am) while the Gift is underway:

• Christmas obstacle course
• Santa Relays
• Gumboot toss
• Egg & spoon race
• Sack races
• Novelty games & giant Santas
• Santa visits at 10am!

Bought to you by Mary, Sharon and the Saturday Squad

Food & festivities

All kids attending enjoy:

• Free sausage sizzle
• Free Zooper Doopers
• Plus… a few festive surprises! 

Our regular Canteen the Usain Boat will have all the snacks, additional BBQ and refreshments available for purchase.

Dress with Christmas sparkle and bring chairs, picnic rugs and cheer!

Entries for the Gift are now closed, but everyone is still welcome to come along to the Christmas party!