Craughwell Athletic Club

The singlets are washed, the spikes are cleaned, the excitement is building as Sunday’s Galway Outdoor Track & Field approaches! With the addition of some events for U8s this year and the further addition of U12 hurdles, its a bulging program of events that starts at 10am in the morning and is scheduled to end around 6.30pm. There are 527 athletes entered which includes a massive 180 from Craughwell AC. Its an exciting time for the club what with the development of…

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Senior and Intermediate Boys 800m AthletesBen Garrard (4th Intermediate), Jack Miskella (3rd Senior), Odhran Keane (1st Senior) A long but enjoyable day of track and field took place in Athlone yesterday with the South Connacht Schools Championships where large numbers from the club took part representing their schools. The day kicked off at 10am and went full throttle until 7.15pm that evening when the last relay race completed – a long day for participants and an even longer day for…

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Craughwell Community Games were held on the new athletics grounds in Crinnage for the first time at the weekend. There was a good turnout on a blustery day with plenty of excitement in the air. The historic first track & field event to be held on the new grounds were the Preschool Girls and Boys 20m races and they were appropriately won by Lena and Tom Glennon from the sports-mad Glennon family! Well done to all who took part and thank…

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Despite the absense of sunshine on the first day of summer today, it was time to hold the first ever high jump training session on the club’s new high jump facility at our new grounds. Alot of work has taken place in the last 4 weeks to construct a roadway and carpark into the grounds and then a 20x20m high jump area – and its all coming together nicely now. With more floodlighting and tartan sprint lanes to go in over…

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