THE CLUB

PRESENTATION

CA Balma, much more than a club... A real Tribe!

the CA BALMA is an athletics club, the first Olympic sport. It has always remained faithful to its history and has remained an autonomous club (not belonging to any "agreement"), now one of the few in France.

Over the decades, it has become one of the very first clubs in the Occitanie region, and remains one of the three most important French autonomous clubs.

Our adventure is written every day, our hopes are high and our ambitions are great...

Atypical :Club autonomous
club ranking : 41 ^th ^{french club on 1832} ^{in total (} ^{ranking taking into account the number of licensees, agreements or autonomous clubs combined} ^).
Sport level : National 1A ( our club oscillates between the 20th and the 25th national place in the Interclub ranking)
Members : 705 members (at the end of the 2021 season)
Creation : September 1971 - The 2022 season will see us celebrate the club's 50th anniversary.
Leading team : 48 coaches and 5 managers, all FFA graduates, make up the Staff Orange .
State of mind : Is took tribal , strong sense of belonging to a family or a clan, big federation of athletes behind the Jersey Orange ..
Medium-term objectives : Maintaining our spirit of both family and competition, becoming ever more professional, remaining demanding, adapting to the expectations of athletes and the Orange Tribe , constantly evolving.
Special sign : The color Orange , proudly worn by members of the Tribe of the same name, during various competitions. Volunteering of all, which is our atypicality and the keystone of our operation.

A little history !

Creation of the CAB

In October 1971, contact was made by Mr. SOLER with many people in order to form an office and prepare the statutes of the future association for the practice of athletics and gymnastics, unstructured disciplines in Balma.

Affiliation with the FFA

On January 11, 1972, the athletics section was affiliated to the French Athletics Federation.

First collective successes

First collective successes in an individual sport by nature. A Juniors team that will be the founder of the Orange adventure and will launch the club's middle-distance culture for decades.

Separation of the CAB into sections

The CAB will welcome more than 2230 licensees until 2015, when each section decides to become autonomous, athletics then becoming the only player in the club.

Victory at the Inter-Regional cross country

The CA BALMA Juniors team wins the Cross-country Inter-regionals.

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A constant evolution!

The club currently has nearly 845 licensees. Its orange color has seen several French champions who are still present on the athletics tracks and roads of France.

INFRASTRUCTURE

A municipal training center to live out your athletic passion

Located in the heart of the Midi-Pyrénées region, in the Haute-Garonne department (31), Balma is part of the Urban Community of Greater Toulouse.

Located in the center of multiple green spaces and various development projects (heart of the city, ZAC Cyprié, ZAC Gramont, La Grainerie), Balma is a city where life is good!

It is also a city where the practice of physical and sports activities is facilitated by the quality of its sports infrastructures. the CA BALMA Athletics evolves in a privileged environment.

The facilities of the CA BALMA consist of:

1 synthetic track (4 lanes, 6 in the straight line);
2 Long-Triple Jump jumpers at the ends of the straight line;
1 area dedicated to vertical jumps with 2 High jumps and 2 Pole vault;
1 area dedicated to Throwing with 1 cage for the Discus Throw, 1 cage for the Hammer Throw, 3 Shot Put areas and a run-up area for the Javelin;
4 football/rugby pitches around which there is a warm-up course;
1 stabilized ground for the educational staff of the School of Athletics;

The technical rooms dedicated to CA BALMA :

a club house, a real living space;
changing rooms for our athletes;
equipment storage areas.

In addition to these municipal stadium facilities, in the immediate vicinity:

A dozen Trail courses "in the center of Balma" allowing you to run in nature with a departure from the municipal stadium, all perfectly identified and some of which serve as a playground during our Trail du Pastel;
Some wood (Wood of Lagarde, of the Archbishops, of Préserville), perfectly cleaned and equipped with routes for trailers, runners and crossmen of the club and the city of Balma;
A second track, 200m, inside the Parc de Lagarde, in the middle of the wood.

THE ORANGE STAFF : THE TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM

They are ALL volunteers!

The specificity of CA BALMA Athletics, lies in the fact that it is managed by volunteers still active: all practice athletics.

They are over 50 volunteers - coaches and leaders together - and take part in the development of the club, of its tribe, through various commissions (training, of course, but also sponsorship, events, communication...). They are present, 1 to 6 times a week , to help the progress of the athletes in their group, to share their passion and to live it fully within the club.

The progress and sporting performance of our athletes are all successes to which volunteers must be associated. They work tirelessly, day after day, in the shadows and in an increasingly consumerist context, to offer quality support to Athletics and Running enthusiasts. We can see them busy daily in the organization of training, travel, the organization of events and beyond the purely sporting aspect, in social and educational support for the athlete.

Team organization chart