Craughwell Athletic Club

    Ballymana NS Senior Girls 4x100m Team – Silver Medalists in the County Sports in Dangan Primary schools athletics took centre-stage recently with the Galway County Sports and Galway City Sports taking place in Dangan. In the County Sports, it was a particularly good day for Clarinbridge NS with victories in both the U13 Boys 4x100m (Gavin Lee, Liam Leen, Sean fox, Conor Hoade) and U13 Girls 4x100m (Saoirse Moore, Evie Ayo, Annie de Hora, Siofra Boland). Ballymana NS took…

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This is what the finished product will look like when our sprint lanes are built this summer in Craughwell, except that ours will be wider (8 lanes) and longer(140m). The picture was taken today at the track in Westside and is the same surface that we are getting in Craughwell. Conveniently, lanes 4 and 5 also indicate the total that we need to fund-raise quickly in order to complete the work this summer – €45k! So don’t sit back – help…

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  A quick update on facility progress for our members and a huge appeal to you to get behind our fundraising. You will have seen plenty of construction activity on the field in the last 8 weeks. This is just the start of some major development work to be completed during June and July. We are about to go ahead with the following:- Completion of basic roadway and carpark on the new grounds Installation of 8 additional floodlights Construction of…

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A nice snap of possibly Craughwell’s fittest family – the 3 Miskella siblings after some champion performances in Dangan yesterday where Aibhe won double gold in U15 800m and 1500m, Jack won silver in Junior Men 400m and a fine PB of 2.09.96 in the 800m, and Emily won gold in the U13 Long Jump, 4th place in the 600m and 6th place in the hurdles. Impressive performances!! The photo reminded me of 1 taken almost 5 years to the…

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Leanagh Gilligan and Lorraine Delaney who both joined the exclusive 5m Long Jump Club at the weekend! Yet another highly successful day at the Galway Championships on a glorious sunny day saw many more fine performances from the large numbers of Craughwell athletes in attendance, most notably Jerry Keary’s breath-taking 1.92m in the U17 high jump to set a new club senior outdoor record, Leanagh Gilligan and Lorraine Delaney both breaking 5 metres for the first time in the long…

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If anyone out there is interested in a parttime position on the Communiy Employment Programme, the club have been approved for an allocation of a clerical assistant to perform some admin duties for the the club as part of the CE Program. Click on the image below for more details or go to the website http://jobseeker.fas.ie/, enter location “Galway County” and Type “Employment Programme” and hit Search to get to same page. If interested, you will need to contact Galway Rural Development…

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U9 Boys Relays Sweep the Boards! Last week culminated with one of the highlights of the athletics year for our younger athletes – the Galway U8-12 Track & Field Championships in Dangan, Galway. With over 180 athletes taking part from the club, to say it was a busy day for our coaches and athletes is a massive understatement. The club had loads of success throughout the day, medalling in most events and everyone having a good time in the pleasant…

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Shauna Bocquet competed in her first British Wheelchair racing games in Stoke Mandeville on Saturday and Sunday. Over 70 wheelchair racers (including 28 girls) competed, with the best of Great Britain looking for qualification times for the upcoming IPC European Championships. The conditions were great with temperatures reaching 25 degrees over the two days. On Saturday, Shauna started with a 100m PB in the heats with a time of 19″27, more than enough to make the A final in the…

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