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Outstanding jumping from Jack Raftery

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Created: Thursday, 20 July 2006 Written by Mike Tobin

The club had several fine jumpers in action in both long jump and high jump in Cork IT on the final day of the National Track and Field on July 16th.

First in action was Maireád McCann in the U12 girls event and Jack Raftery and PJ Kelly in the U12 boys. Maireád can be very proud of her improvement in the long jump this summer, jumping 3.04m in the Galway competition to finish in 7th place, jumping 3.74m in the Connachts to take 3rd place and completing a massive improvement to jump 4 metres on this occasion to take 10th place in Ireland – incredible progress in such a short space of time.

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Paul McGill Obliterates the National Shot Putt Record

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Created: Thursday, 20 July 2006 Written by Mike Tobin
On the final day of the National Juvenile Track and Field in Cork IT on 16 July, several throwers from the club were in action, foremost of whom been Paul McGill. 

 

Competition got underway promptly with the U11 ball throw and U12 long jumps. In the ball throw, the club had 2 super throwers in action – the Tarpey twins from Clarinbridge. Conor threw the sliotar a fantastic 33.49 metres to claim 6th place overall in the U11 ball throw, with Brian throwing 28.47m to take 10th place.

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Craughwell U12 Boys Relay Team Shines!

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Created: Thursday, 20 July 2006 Written by Mike Tobin
The National Juvenile Relays took place in Cork IT this year on 15 July, with a long trip in store for many families - most of whom made a weekend away of it.

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Streets of Galway on Tomorrow!

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Created: Friday, 11 August 2006 Written by Mark Davis
It is one of the running highlights of the west or ireland calendar - certainly the best-attended race in Galway, with plenty of competition at all levels... and it's on tomorrow!!
For any of you who are doing the Streets of Galway on Saturday and are interested in meeting beforehand for warm-up/stretching, we plan to meet at 6.30pm.
The race starts and ends at the South Park, Claddagh at 7.30pm - so plan is to meet an hour beforehand at the grass pitch closest to the playground/dressing rooms. We can warmup there.
If you are definitely running it, can you drop a comment to this post to let us know - if we want to declare a team, we have to do so by 6.30pm at the race. So if we have 4 men and 4 women, we could enter 2 teams. No worries if not, we will have other occasions for team entries, e.g. Claregalway 10k the following weekend.
Michael will bring his box of Craughwell AC running vests in case anyone needs one!
Good luck everyone and enjoy!!

Cathriona Farrell selected for Irish team

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Created: Tuesday, 18 July 2006 Written by Mike Tobin

There was super news for Cathriona Farrell and the club at the weekend when we heard of her selection by the AAI for the Irish International U16 team to contest the Celtic International track and field in Waterford on 12th August.

The Celtic Internaional is an annual event which involves top athletes from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales competing for their countries in the U16 and U18 age groups.

This competition is widely regarded as an important step in the development from promising juvenile standard to international senior standard.

 Check out the following link for details of the team selection.

http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=354#more-354

Well done Cathriona!

Ann Loughnane selected for ESB Athletes Support Program

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Created: Thursday, 13 July 2006 Written by Mike Tobin

Congratulations to Ann Loughnane who has been selected for the ESB Athletes Support Program on which details was announced today by Athletics Ireland and the ESB.

Check out the announcement at the Athletics Ireland Web site - http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=338#more-338.

Well done also to Paul Hession from Athenry AC who was selected for the same program. Its a great achievement for 2 Galway athletes to be selected as part of this elite group of 12 athletes from all over Ireland.

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Cathriona Farrell Sets New National Record

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Created: Tuesday, 11 July 2006 Written by Mike Tobin
Many of the recent reports posted on the club’s juvenile news lead with “the club enjoyed its best ever day at …”. This line was never more appropriate than last weekend at the National Juvenile Track & Field Championships for U14-U19 age groups in Tullamore where 5 athletes made the winners podium, claiming 8 medals between them - with the highlight being Cathriona Farrell's new record in the high jump.

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Surf's High in Achill

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Created: Monday, 03 July 2006 Written by Michael Tobin

Good surfing conditions do not make for good running conditions as I discovered at the weekend in that academy of surfing that has its home at Keel in Achill. Not that I know anything about surfing!

 

When the Achill half-marathon was announced earlier in the year, I immediately jumped at the thought of doing it. We had holidayed in Achill for the last 4 summers and I had ran about half the course before on training runs, the easier half as it turned out. Not having had a weekend away on our own for a while, myself and Rosemarie decided we’d make a weekend of it and booked into the house that we had holidayed in.

 

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Athenry Twilight Track & Field Preview

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Created: Friday, 30 June 2006 Written by Mark Davis

ImageIn yet another fantastic display of innovation and initiative from our Athenry AC neighbors, we will be treated to a night of true quality running on Saturday week.

They have arranged for some open races (5k, 1 mile for men, 3k, mile for women) that will allow ordinary runners to experience what track running is like.  I hope that some Craughwell athletes will make an effort to participate.  As you may know, I am out of action with achilles injury, but may just chance bringing the spikes to take some part in the festivities.  After we have huffed and puffed our way around, they have arranged for some superb quality races to entertain the masses.

It's these high-quality races that will be the really interesting bit...

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More success at day 2 of Connacht Track & Field in Dangan

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Created: Wednesday, 28 June 2006 Written by Mike Tobin
Day 2 of the Connacht Outdoor Track & Field Championships got underway in Dangan on a fine morning on 17 June. Each year as the age profile of the club’s juvenile athletes increases, so too does our interest in day 2 when the older juveniles from u13 to u19 take part together with the seniors. It’s only a few short years since you could count on one hand the Craughwell athletes to be involved in these age groups. Today we had 33 taking part – 14 U13s, 4 U14s, 10 U15s, 3 U16s, 1 U19 and 2 seniors.

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Craughwell NS impressive at Galway City Sports

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Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 Written by Mike Tobin

A large contingent of over 30 athletes travelling from Craughwell NS to take part in the Galway City Sports on Tues 13th June.

 

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Good day for the Club at Day 1 of Connachts in Sligo

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Created: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 Written by Mike Tobin

Craughwell AC's younger juvenile age groups had a very successful day in Sligo last Saturday (10 June), with the club featuring strongly in both relays and individual events.

With predictions of the demise of the glorious sunshine for the weekend, it was hard to know whether to bring the sun-hats or wooly hats.

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