Bathurst Little Athletics held its annual general meeting on Wednesday, May 5, with Curtin elected the new president.

Curtin wants to make sure Bathurst Little Athletics is prepared for a potential influx of members later this year to coincide with the Olympics that will be in Japan in several months time.

"Being an Olympic year, we're expecting a big summer," he said.

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"Generally over the Olympic games this a lot of interest in athletics, so we're expecting to have a bumper athletic season."

Another big decision the new Bathurst Little Athletics committee has already made was the unanimous decision to shift Monday afternoon meetings to Thursday due to the clash with touch football.

"Traditionally little athletics has been on a Monday night but we compete directly with touch football," he said.

"We know there's a lot of people in Bathurst that would love to do athletics but they've also got their touch footy.

"If we can move away from that and to a night that doesn't compete with touch footy, that would be great. That would open athletics for really good athletes in Bathurst that can't do it."

At the end of last year, the Bathurst Little Athletics acquired a new timing system, which records times more accurately, thanks to a scanning technology that has been built into nine portable poles.

All up, the new timing system can accommodate all individuals in an eight-runner field.

Curtin is hoping to visit local schools in the coming months to show them and discuss the new timing system on offer.

"We are going to have an afternoon in the next few months where we meet with local school sports organisers and principals and show them our new timing systems and how that can make their athletic carnivals run better," he said.

Curtin also paid tribute to former committee member Troy Dalton, had been president for the past three years, as well as Phil Humphreys who served as treasurer for three years.

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