Best of luck to all of our athletes taking part tomorrow in day 2 of the Connacht cross country in the grounds of Westport House. The races kick off at 1pm with the U11s followed by U13s, 15s, 17s, 19s and seniors. According to googlemaps, shortest route is to go through Claregalway and then Ballinrobe:- Following are the directions once you get to Westport:- Please access Westport House via the Westport Quay gates (less than a mile from town centre)….
The club had a massive group of 43 athletes in action at the Connacht Secondary Schools Multi-Events which were held in Athlone IT on Thursday. The club’s athletes came mainly from Calasanctius Oranmore (23), The Pres Athenry (12), Loughrea VS (5), St Raphael’s Loughrea (2) and The Bower Athlone (1). There were huge numbers in both minor girls and boys with over 60 in each age group. In the girls, the club had following in action:- Finola Kelly, Tara Slattery,…
We don’t normally advertise races on the main page of our website but this race is a special one. Way back in 2005, the club had only a dozen or so adult members, mostly coaches. That autumn, the club launched its very successful circuit training program in the hall in Craughwell and adult membership blossomed to over 75 adults. Helen Hallinan and her best friend Mary Prendergast were 2 of the new recruits to the club who participated in the circuit…
Well done to all participants today and to host club Loughrea AC. The weather worked against us today but hopefully everyone enjoyed the day if that’s the correct word for it in such wet conditions! Provisional results are at:- https://www.craughwellac.com/site/images/2014/xc/2014ConnachtCrossCountryDay1Results.pdf Well done to all of the Craughwell AC participants. We are some super performances which yielded team gold in the U18 girls, team silver in the U12 boys, U14 boys and U16 boys, and team bronze in the U16 girls. It…
