Tamworth Little Athletics Club is playing a waiting game as to when it can commence the season.
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The club has planned for an October 8 start but is awaiting further advice from Little Athletics NSW, president Mel O'Connell said.
As of yet there has been little information released around the guidelines for the resumption of community sport.
All they know is what NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro indicated last week, that community sport will only be able to return once 80 percent of the population is double vaccinated.
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That is not expected to happen "early to mid November".
O'Connell, who is in her first year in the presidency chair, said it has been a challenging time.
"The club, and as a state, we're all trying to push to have as much of the season as we can," she said.
The reality is that the season will likely be limited.
They have already had to cancel their come-and-try days on August 22 and September 11.
O'Connell said the likelihood is they won't be able to reschedule those.
"We don't have enough Friday nights in the season to do come-and-trys," she said.
Generally the first three Friday nights don't go towards the pointscore so, she said, they could use that as a bit of a come-and-try.
There is a lot of sort out before then though and a lot of unknowns.
O'Connell said they don't at the moment know what Little Athletics NSW's position is on whether adults will be required to be vaccinated to be involved. There's been no directives on that conveyed to them.
While it won't affect them from a competition standpoint, being a junior sport, they need a lot of 'adult helpers' to run things.
There is also a fair bit of uncertainty about how the competition schedule will look, although a lot of their competitions are early next year, O'Connell pointed out.
Registrations for the season are open.
O'Connell said they were hoping to ride off the momentum of Australia's success at the Olympics and then Paralympics. That has been stalled, but they have she said had quite a few people that have already registered which is pleasing.
