UNISC ATHLETICS

In 1986 the little athletics club Nambour and the Sunshine Coast amateur athletics club joined forces to set up a 400-metre track and added long jump pits, discus and shot put pads, plus javelin and high jump areas. The Maroochy shire council was very helpful by providing heavy machinery and top fill, and when combined with the club members' ‘know-how', set up a wonderful track in the police youth club grounds in Nambour. However, these grounds were subject to flooding which disrupted athletes training regimes and was detrimental to holding carnivals.