Mount Gambier athletes are getting ready for the upcoming athletics season with some hard winter training with Coach Sally Taylor.

A group of around 30 young and not so young athletes have been training up to four days a week in preparation for the athletics season, which starts in October.

The group consists of Little Athletes, Senior Athletes and Master Athletes with the age range from 7 to 70.

A couple of the athletes have had a long season with athletics during summer, then race walking and cross country events during the winter months but they are still training and having fun.

Mount Gambier Athletics has always produced its share of state and national athletes over many years and most of this success can be contributed to the tireless work that Sally Taylor puts in.

Sally is at every training session rain, hail or shine with sage advice and great athletics knowledge, training and mentoring young athletes.

She volunteers her time with no expectations other than commitment, doing your best on the day and having fun.

Sally was awarded the SA Little Athletics Volunteer of the Year Coach Award in 2017 and is a life member of the Mount Gambier district athletics centre.