UTS Northern Suburbs Athletic Club is an athletics club based in Sydney, NSW. It is one of Australia's oldest athletics clubs and has taken an active role in the sport for 92 years. The first Northern Suburbs Amateur Athletic Club was originally formed in 1914. One of its premier athletes at the time was L.R Frith who was predominately a miler but often did the 'half'. The club had to close in 1917 partly because of the demands of World War 1, and partly because its leading athlete LR Frith was poached by the Sydney University Athletics Club. Northern Suburbs Amateur Athletic Club was reborn in 1927 and its next great athlete was Frank O'Brien, an all round champion of the 1930s. O'Brien won Norths' first State title in 1930 when he won the NSW pentathlon championship and he defended it su