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Cathriona Farrell - Galway Bay FM Sports Award
Congratulations to Cathriona Farrell who was awarded the prestigious Galway Bay FM Sports Award for athletics in 2006. Cathriona along with over a dozen other Galway sports stars from various sporting diciplines, will receive her Award at a glittering ceremony later this month.
This is a big honour for Cathriona and the club and is testamount to the hard work that she, her parents and her coaches all put into the sport. Cathriona joins Ann Loughnane as the 2nd member of the club to receive the award.
What are you doing on St. Stephen's Day 2006?
What do you normally do on St. Stephens Day? Feeling a little full after the festivities of the previous day? Feeling a little remorseful at the thought of the extra lbs that the Christmas over-indulgence might have brought with it? Fancy getting some fresh air on St Stephen's Day for about 60 or 70 minutes? Fancy getting it when jogging the Athenry 10k the morning of St Stephen's Day? Read on before tearing up this message.
Juveniles up against it in Athlone
The club’s juvenile athletes and a handful of seniors travelled to Athlone for the first day of the Connacht cross-country finals – the uneven juvenile age groups and novice men.
Change in dates for National cross country finals
There has been a change to the dates for the National finals of juvenile and novice cross country.
National Cross Country Uneven Ages and Novices: This will be held on
SATURDAY THE 9TH DEC 2006 AT 12.0 NOON IN ATHLONE I.T.
The original plans for Dundalk on the 10th Dec are now scrapped. National AAI will issue the formal notification and forms etc. For those who are competing in the Regional Cross Country on Saturday 21 Oct, the course for the National will be the same as the Regional.
National Cross Country Even Ages: While no official communication is available on this yet, AAI have verbally indicated that this will be held on Sunday 26 November in Dungarvan (i.e. the date and venue originally set down for the uneven ages).
National AAI Inter-Country Senior Cross Country: There is no change to the existing plan to hold this in Dungarvan on Sunday 26 November.
Pounding along at the Palace Grounds
Craughwell AC had a huge turnout in the juvenile cross-country races at the Palace Grounds in Tuam last Sunday. A pleasant day ensued with none of the heavy mucky ground one might normally associate with cross country running.
Top of the class in Primary Schools cross-country
Well done to the club's athletes who took part in the Connacht Primary Schools cross-country at Beleek Castle in Ballina last Saturday.
There were some fantastic results, particularly for Craughwell NS who won the 3rd/4th class girls 800m and 5th/6th class girls 1000m team events. Linda Porter (Ballymana NS) equalled the club's best ever performance individually by taking the silver medal in the 5th/6th class girls 1000m. She was joined by youinger sister Laura in the individual medals with Laura in a fansastic 10th position overall and also Orla McDaid (Craughwell NS) taking a great medal in 12th place.
Padraic Hannon (Carrabane NS) was in hard luck in the 3rd/4th class boys 800m where he was pipped on the line for a top three place, having to settle for 4th place.
Read more: Top of the class in Primary Schools cross-country
Loughrea 5k results
Check out http://www.athleticsloughrea.com/files/Loughrea5kResult.pdf for the results of the Loughrea 5k road race last Saturday.
There was a good turnout from the club, with the men well represented but the ladies having a sole representative in the race!
Busy Week for Craughwell Athletes
It was a very busy week for Craughwell athletes, kicking off with the Primary Schools cross-country on Tuesday 26th Sept, followed by the All-Ireland Schools Combined Events on Saturday and the Galway juvenile cross-country on Sunday.
Galway County Cross-Country Championships
Entries to Sarah Finnegan, Kilquan, Craughwell, Co. Galway or by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Incredible Performances in Primary Schools Cross-country
The Galway AAI primary schools cross-country was held today in mostly fine weather conditions in Renmore.
It was an incredible day for the club, winning 2 individual titles and all 4 team titles, with many other athletes making it into the medals as individuals.
Read more: Incredible Performances in Primary Schools Cross-country
Juveniles and Seniors in Action in Killimor
Well done to Thomas and Mary Porter for their organisation of a great 4-mile race in Killimor at the weekend. Over 40 juveniles took part in the juvenile fun run at 1pm, with many Craughwell AC athletes featuring prominently. Keeping the prizes in the family, David and Linda Porter ran fine races to take 3rd place in the boys and girls 1 mile races.
The senior race kicked off at 1.30pm with over 60 participants. Craughwell AC had 6 representative in the senior men's race, all of whom ran very well to place the team 4th in the team competition.
Successful first night of circuit training
Circuit training got underway for the 12 week Autumn session on Monday night, 18th Sept - with an attendance of 31 people. Hopefully everyone enjoyed the session and will be back next week!
While the Monday session is pretty full now with over forty people having signed up for it, there are still places available on the Friday session - 8.30 to 9.30pm.
The circuit sessions are open to club members and members of other athletic clubs. Anyone not in an athletic club can also get involved by first registering with Craughwell AC or any athletic club of their choice.
Contact Michael Tobin at 087 6591879 if interested in joining.