Wishing all of our athletes, coaches and parents a very happy and healthy New Year!! Apologies in advance for the length of the article, it was a busy year! The club continues to grow from strength to strength on all fronts and 2012 was one of our most successful ever. Read on for a full review of track & field and cross country action during the year. A couple of administrative notes first:- The club’s AGM will take…
On a truely fantastic day for the club, our U17 boys cross country team placed third in the National cross-country inter-club U17 championships at the weekend in Wexford. If ever a podium-finish was well-deserved, this was it. The team has shown exemplary dedication to training over the last 14 weeks since the start of September. The team has been together for several years now and has steadily progressed each year. As U11s in 2006, they narrowly missed out…
Well done to former member of the club Aidan Conneely who represented Ireland with distinction at the weekend when competing in Glasgow on the Irish Schools Pentathlon team. Aidan set a number of personal bests in the competition including an impressive 5.70m in the long jump and 24.31 in the 200m.
Good news came through today via Junior Minister Ciaran Cannon and via the Department of Sport website that the club has been approved for a grant of €16,000 for the purchase of sports equipment. It is planned to use the funds for the upgrading of our high jump equipment, purchase of competition-quality hurdles and purchase of pole vault poles. It is no secret that the availability of convenient facilities locally to practise on a regular basis is key to success….
Bouncing back from a tough weekend’s cross country last Sunday in Meath, many of the same athletes made the short trip from their schools to St Mary’s College in Galway for the 5th Annual Cross Country Invitational held in the college. There were 4 races on the programme – U14 Boys 1500m, U15 Boys 3000m, U17 Boys 4500m and U19 Boys 6000m. The races have been boys only so far as St Mary’s College is an all-boys school. Most of…
Craughwell AC journeyed to Tattersalls in Meath on Sunday last for the first day of the National cross country championships where the juvenile even age groups and seniors were in action. Highlights of the day for Craughwell AC were the fantastic runs from Jamie Spellman and Damien O’Boyle to place 6th and 17th in the U16 boys 4000m and Sean Cannon and Patrick Noonan’s performance in the U12 boys 2000m which saw them feature on the Galway bronze medal winning team. Check…
