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About the Club

Holland Sports AC is a small, friendly athletics club situated in pleasant, semi-rural surroundings in Oxted, Surrey, England¹. Its teams compete mainly in local cross-country and track & field leagues.

The clubhouse, track and grounds are in Mill Lane, Hurst Green. Click here for a map and here for a satellite photograph courtesy of Google Earth.

Everyone is welcome. Come down to the club during one of its training sessions and speak to one of our members or get in touch with our head coach Nigel Bongers (telephone 01883 712087, mobile 07710 404122 ) who'll be happy to answer your questions and show you around. You can also email us by clicking here.

Training Sessions

Training sessions are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the year at our Mill Lane track, which has flood lights. The sessions take place from 7pm to 8pm for juniors, and from 8pm to 9pm for seniors. Our aim is to help athletes of all abilities - from beginners to the more experienced - and all ages - from young children and teenagers through to seniors and veterans - to improve their performances in running and in the main track & field disciplines. We have a growing corps of qualified coaches to help athletes to achieve their potential.

Co-operation with Other Clubs

We co-operate closely with our sister club, Oxted Runners. It holds regular Tuesday night road runs around Oxted during the winter, Tuesday evening country runs through the summer, and its members enter a variety of road and trail races across the region, ranging from 10km to marathon. Many compete for Holland Sports AC in the cross-country season. For more information about Oxted Runners, visit their website by clicking here.

We have also joined forces with Dorking & Mole Valley and Redhill & Surrey Beagles to compete in the 2008 Southern Men's Track & Field League (see below).

Men's Track & Field Fixtures 2008

This summer Holland Sports AC will be taking part in the Southern Men's Track & Field League, Division 4 South. This follows a number of successful seasons which has seen the club successively promoted. This year the club will be joining forces with Dorking & Mole Valley AC and Redhill & Surrey Beagles, a move which is expected to greatly strengthen our showing in the league. The fixtures, which all take place on Saturday afternoons at tracks in different parts of the south of England, are shown below. The team is being organised as usual by Nigel Bongers, who is always on the lookout for good performers in all the different track and field disciplines. Please note your diaries!

Date	Location
3 May 2008	K2 Centre, Crawley
7 June 2008	Royal Navy, Portsmouth
28 June 2008	K2 Centre, Crawley
12 July 2008	Ashford, Kent
2 August 2008	Hastings, East Sussex

National Young Athletes' League
Track & Field Fixtures 2008

Date	Location	Host
4 May 2008	Crawley K2	Horsham
18 May 2008	Crawley K2	Crawley AC
22 June 2008	Horsham	East Grinstead AC
20 July 2008	Sutton	Sutton AC

Lily B League
Track & Field Fixtures 2008

Date	Location
24 May 2008	Tooting
7 June 2008	Sutton
12 July 2008	Guildford

Surrey Cross-Country Fixtures 2008-09

Dates and locations for next season's cross-country fixtures have now been agreed, and these are set out in the tables below.

Holland's newly promoted men's team will be competing in Division 3 of the Surrey men's league, whose races are combined with those of Division 4. Two of the locations will be the same as those to be used for the Surrey Ladies' Cross-Country league, namely the first match at Nork Park, near Banstead and the second match at Lightwater Country Park. The start times for the races will continue to be 3pm for the men and 12.15pm for the women, with the exception of 10 January, when the start time for the men's match will be 2.30pm (TBC) and for the women's match, 12 noon.

Surrey Men's Cross-Country League Fixtures 2008-09
Divisions 3 & 4

Date	Location	Host
11 October 2008	Nork Park, Banstead	Tadworth AC
8 November 2008	Lightwater Country Park	Runneymede Runners
10 January 2009	Lloyd Park, Croydon	Croydon Harriers
7 February 2009	Wimbledon Common	Vets AC

Surrey Ladies' Cross-Country League Fixtures 2008-09
Divisions 1 & 2

Date	Location	Host
11 October 2008	Nork Park, Banstead	Tadworth AC
8 November 2008	Lightwater Country Park	Runneymede Runners
10 January 2009	Farthing Down, Coulsdon	South London Harriers
7 February 2009	Lloyd Park, Croydon	Striders of Croydon

If you've not competed for Holland before and are interested in doing so please contact the team captain, Nigel Bongers (telephone 01883 712087, mobile 07710 404122), or in the case of ladies' cross-country, Barbara Towers.

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¹ Why Holland? It's got nothing to do with the Netherlands. Holland is the name of an area of Hurst Green near Oxted, and is derived from a common Anglo Saxon placename denoting cultivated land on a hill.