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Application for Membership - Notes:
In Case of Emergency (I.C.E)
What Should I Do if I Get Injured?
Never try to “work through” the pain of a sports injury. Stop playing or exercising when you feel pain. Playing or exercising more only causes more harm. Some injuries should be seen by a doctor right away. Others you can treat yourself.
Call a doctor when:
- The injury causes severe pain, swelling, or numbness
- You can’t put any weight on the area
- An old injury hurts or aches
- An old injury swells
- The joint doesn’t feel normal or feels unstable.
If you don’t have any of these signs, it may be safe to treat the injury at home. If the pain or other symptoms get worse, you should call your doctor. Use the RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation) method to relieve pain, reduce swelling, and speed healing. Follow these four steps right after the injury occurs and do so for at least 48 hours:
Rest. Reduce your regular activities. If you’ve injured your foot, ankle, or knee, take weight off of it. A crutch can help. If your right foot or ankle is injured, use the crutch on the left side. If your left foot or ankle is injured, use the crutch on the right side.
Ice. Put an ice pack to the injured area for 20 minutes, four to eight times a day. You can use a cold pack or ice bag. You can also use a plastic bag filled with crushed ice and wrapped in a towel. Take the ice off after 20 minutes to avoid cold injury.
Compression. Put even pressure (compression) on the injured area to help reduce swelling. You can use an elastic wrap, special boot, air cast, or splint. Ask your doctor which one is best for your injury.
Elevation. Put the injured area on a pillow, at a level above your heart, to help reduce swelling.
Are you applying to Scunthorpe and District for 1st or 2nd claim membership?
First Claim
When athletes come into the sport one of the first things they do is to join an athletics club. As soon as they sign up for a club they automatically become a first claim member of it. There is one exception to this relating to athletes still at school. In this case the school always has first claim on their services. Other than that an athlete becomes a first claim member of the first club they join. It is actually possible to be a first claim member of two clubs at the same time. If the original club does not cater for all the disciplines of athletics, athletes can become first claim members of another club purely for those disciplines not covered. For example, if the club ‘A’ participated only in track & field, an athlete who wished to compete in road or cross-country events as well could join another club ‘B’ for that reason. He or she would then be first claim to club ‘A’ for track & field only and to club ‘B’ for road and cross-country.
Second Claim
An athlete may join more than one club. For a variety of reasons (which could include social or coaching) it sometimes suits people to do so. Athletes could then compete for their ‘second claim’ club, when not required by their ‘first claim’ club, but only in competitions that permit this. Some leagues, for instance, specify that participation is restricted to first claim members only, but there are some competitions that allow second claim members to take part. This is different to the case above where an athlete can be a first claim member of two clubs for different disciplines. An athlete could compete for their second claim club in the same disciplines as for their first claim club in competitions where second claim members are accepted
Are you applying for Higher Competition club membership?
Higher Competition Club
This is a fairly recent innovation and follows on from a scheme introduced in Scotland some years ago known as ‘secondary first claim’ membership. The intention of the rule is to give athletes the opportunity to compete at a higher level than that provided by their first claim club while at the same time being able to retain their membership of that club. Previously, the only way to represent a club competing at a higher level was to transfer completely to that club and resign from the original club.
There are some important points relating to this rule. Firstly, it applies to track and field only. It is not possible, therefore, for a roadrunner in a fairly small club to become a higher competition member of another in order to compete in, for example, the AAA 12 stage road relays. Even within track and field it is limited in scope. It applies only to league competition and then only for senior leagues. This means, for instance, that an athlete could not become a higher competition member of another club for the purpose of competing in the National Young Athletes’ League. As its purpose is to give an additional opportunity to athletes, it is not an obligation and they retain the right to opt to compete for their original club rather than the higher competition club, but they cannot compete for both on the same day. Higher claim membership is temporary, for one year at a time, and athletes remain first claim members of their original club.
What Constitutes Higher Competition?
UKA has defined three levels. The highest is ‘British’ which means the British Athletics League for men and the UK Women’s League. The second tier is classified as ‘National and Territorial’ and covers the three English territories (North, Midlands and South) plus the national leagues of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. For the purposes of this rule, these leagues are all considered to be of the same level. Athletes whose clubs participate in the English League could not request higher competition status in order to compete in, say, the Midlands League. The third and final category covers lower regional and district leagues. Note that it is leagues themselves that determine the level, not divisions within leagues. Athletes cannot apply for higher competition status to a club that just happens to be in a higher division. The lowest division of the English League is of the same level as the highest division of the Northern or Midland Leagues.
To be classed as an amateur, as defined by UK Athletics (U.K.A):
RULE 1 ELIGIBILITY TO COMPETE
All competitions under the Rules of UK Athletics (UKA) are conӿ?ned to amateurs under the following deӿ?nitions (hereinafter termed amateurs under UKA Rules):
(1) Definition of Amateur
An amateur is a person who is eligible to compete under the Rules of UKA
(2) Restriction of Competition to Amateurs Competition under UKA Rules is restricted to amateur athletes who are under the jurisdiction of a Member of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and who are eligible under the rules laid down by UK Athletics.
(3) Ineligibility to Compete The following are ineligible to take part in competition under UKA Rules: Any persons who:
(a) have taken part in any competition in which any of the competitors in any of the events were to their knowledge ineligible to compete under UKA Rules. NOTE: This does not apply to any athletics meeting which is solely restricted to the Masters age group.
(b) are ineligible to compete in competitions under the jurisdiction of any national governing body of amateur athletics afӿ?liated to the IAAF.
(c) take part in any athletics meeting, other than a Hill or Fell race, which is not sanctioned by UKA or other appropiate Association.
(d) take part in any competition outside the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which is not sanctioned, recognised or certified by the Member Association of the IAAF.
(e) have competed, or are competing in any sport for pecuniary reward, other than as permitted by IAAF Rules which have been accepted by UK Athletics.
(f) are suspended or banned for a doping offence by UK Athletics, or by the Governing Body of any other sport.
(g) ask for, or receive, directly or indirectly, any monetary consideration, reward or employment for becoming or continuing as a member of a Club or any other athletic organisation.
(h) use the services of an Athletes’ Representative other than one approved under Rule 11.
(i) have been suspended or banned for being in breach of Rules 16 or17 (Advertising and Sponsorship or Clothing).
(j) have been declared ineligible to compete by the IAAF. (k) have committed any acts or made any statements either verbally or in writing, or have been responsible for any breaches of the Rules, or other conduct which, in the opinion of a Territorial or National Association is considered to be insulting, improper or likely to bring the sport and/or UK Athletics into disrepute.
(4) Unless the period of ineligibility is stated in the relevant Rule or Regulation of the IAAF or UK Athletics, those ineligible under this Rule shall be deemed ineligible for a period set down in guidelines produced by the Executive Board of UK Athletics, or, in the absence of such guidelines, for such period as the Executive Board of UK Athletics (for doping matters) or the Territorial or National Association (for all non-doping matters) shall
decide.
(5) If athletes compete whilst suspended or ineligible, the period of this ineligibility shall be deemed to recommence from the time they last competed as though no part of a period of suspension or ineligibility had been served.
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