"Avon" -- But Not Us


These organisations have "Avon" in their title although they are not connected with the Avon Athletic Association:



  • The Avon Schools Athletic Association: although there is close co-operation between the two organisations, they operate independently.

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  • The Avon Track and Field League: this league in 2024 will host six teams. Member teams do not need to be Avon-based. It has never been linked with the Avon AA: it simply has a different function within the sport.
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  • "Team Avon" in the YDL Upper Age Groups competition is a composite team drawn from the following clubs: Bristol & West AC, Mendip AC, Team Bath AC, and Yate and District AC. It is not a team organised or financed by the Avon AA.
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  • Avon and Somerset Police     -- one of several public bodies which still recognise the former County.


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  • "Avon Ladies"
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  • Avon Athletics. It's actually about sport in general in schools in a part of Ohio. They take a very strict attitude on Drugs and Alcohol issues, with tests for all at the start of each season and random tests thereafter (see Their Drug Test Policy).

    On another page of their website, they state that "If during the school year, and while a member of a school team or squad, the student participates on an organized team engaged in the same sport, he/she shall be ineligible for any further participation in that sport for the remainder of the season. In addition, athletes who are members of a school team or squad are strongly encouraged NOT to compete on independent teams (different sports) while their season is in progress". This would seem to make the typical young-athlete function of a British club virtually impossible.