Welcome to Sutherland District Athletics Club (Est 1959)
Our club has a proud history spanning more than fifty years in the Sutherland Shire. The Summer Athletics season runs from October to March each year and provides competition in both track and field events for juniors to veterans. SDAC members have represented at all levels, local, state, national and international. We also welcome those young athletes making the transition from Little Athletics.
Sutherland DAC conducts training at the all weather, synthetic track, in Belgrave Esplanade, Sylvania Waters and also at the grass track at Waratah Park, Rawson Avenue, Sutherland. There is also a year round track competition conducted at Sylvania athletics track each Thursday evening by Southside Masters first event begins at 6.00 p.m.
Our Winter Cross-Country and Road program runs from March to September and provides a varied program of venues across the Sutherland Shire. Again, we cater for runners from the very young to veterans over 1, 2, 3, 5, and 10 km distances; we also have a 5km social walking group. As with our summer athletes, our winter athletes have also represented at local, state, national and international levels.
Sutherland DAC members meet each Sunday morning at 7.30 a.m. near the main Audley picnic shed in the Royal National Park for a group run along Lady Carrington Drive this caters for all standards of runners over various distances to suit each need.