Craughwell Athletic Club

The honours keep pouring in for Craughwell AC's top high jumper Cathriona Farrell. Cathriona was honoured at the weekend to receive the Athletics Ireland "Eamon Gilbert Award" for being the country's best juvenile high jumper in 2007. Cathriona's consistent jumping throughout the year earned her this award, with a PB of 1.72m early in the year, followed up by several top-notch performances during the year and in particular her achievement in winning the English AAA U17 High Jump in August…

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 The club had a fantastic day out in Nenagh last weekend. An earlier article has already detailed the successes in the relays but there were even bigger performances in the individual events with several athletes taking multiple medals and several breaking club records. In record breaking form, Paul McGill set a new PB and club record in the U15 boys shot putt, heaving the shot a massive 13.46m to win the Connacht title easily. Kelly O’Donoghue won the club’s only…

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It was another fantastic day for Craughwell AC at the Connacht Indoor Track & Field in Nenagh. While I don’t have the full details of the performances, I am setting out as much as possible here and will update the website with other information as and when it comes to hand. Craughwell AC had a huge number of athletes taking part in the Connacht’s this year, with 80 athletes in action – this is an increase of 18 on last…

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The provisional program for this Saturday's track and field is now available:- 2008 Connacht Indoor Programme.pdf    

I've received a copy of the AAI juvenile competition booklet in the post today. Its also online now at http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/4th%20Juvenile%20Booklet%20%282%29last.pdf. (note there are errors in above doc, e.g. it says u13-19 relays on 13 July in some places and 26 July in others. AAI HQ told me 26 July is the correct date and that they are in process of correcting the web version of the booklet). Unfortunately there is a long trip up to Antrim for some age groups!…

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If you're interested in watching the highest standard of cross-country running in juvenile athletics in Ireland, then Dartfield is the place to be this Saturday. The Irish Schools Cross Country finals take place there this Saturday commencing at 12 noon sharp. Check out http://www.isaa.ie/ for more details. And spectators have the added bonus of the Irish Universities cross-country taking place immediately afterwards. So if you would like to sample athletics as an observer this time rather than a nervous athlete or…

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Maeve Curley travelled to the Isle of Man at the weekend to compete in the annual Manx Harriers Race Walking Championships. Maeve was competing in the U17 Women 3km walk. Putting in a fantastic performance, Maeve finished just 1 second behind one of her main rivals in Ireland, Fiona Dennehy from Kilkenny. Fiona won the English AAA Championships last year and for Maeve to finish so close to her was a huge performance, setting a new PB in the process…

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