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Month: February 2020

Athletes Shine at U14-19 Connacht Indoors!

Athletes Shine at U14-19 Connacht Indoors!

Craughwell AC’s U16 Boys 4x200m team who won silver at the Connacht Indoors in Athlone ITEvan Hallinan, Sean Cunningham, Ryan McDonnell, Evan Quinn Another outstanding day of athletics action took place in Athlone IT for day 2 of the Connacht Championships where the U14 to U19 age groups were taking place. Highlights included a blistering 9.61 for Ella Farrelly to take gold in the U14 hurdles and fever pitch excitement in the relays where Craughwell AC’s U16 boys were pipped…

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Spectacular Success for U12/13s at Connachts!

Spectacular Success for U12/13s at Connachts!

Craughwell AC’s U12 group at the Connacht Indoors The club’s U12s and U13s enjoyed spectacular success at day 1 of the Connacht Indoors last Saturday in Athlone with over 40 athletes taking and between them featuring on the podium 28 times throughout the day, the top performing club by a distance. Well done to the group and all their coaches!     Ronnie’s U13s report Craughwell u13s had a superb day in Athlone at the Connaught indoors with a total…

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Paul Obliterates Club 800m Record at Connachts!

Paul Obliterates Club 800m Record at Connachts!

Paul Joyce following his stunning 1.56.42 victory At the end of a busy day of juvenile action where Craughwell AC’s U12 and U13s dominated proceedings with countless podium finishes (detailed report to follow), Craughwell’s seniors took to the track to continue the success with some magnificent performances. It was the first time as far as I am aware that Connacht put the seniors separate to the juvenile event, tagging on 2 hours for seniors to the end of the juvenile…

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Timetables for Connacht Indoors

Timetables for Connacht Indoors

The time-tables for the Connacht Indoors this weekend are as follows:- Saturday U12-U13s Senior Sunday U14-U19s (and U13 walks)   Please note the following On Sunday the U14 Girls Long Jump has been moved to 10am, with marks from 9.40am and all athletes in the relays will be asked to jump first in the groups. The times are there only as an indication and the committee will take no responsibility for any athlete who fails to arrive at their event…

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Very belated report on the Galway Indoors

Very belated report on the Galway Indoors

Some of Craughwell AC’s U10 Boys athletics squad at the Galway Indoors in Athlone IT Apologies for the slowness in getting this article up – I will figure out some more efficient mechanism for the Connachts as with so many athletes competing, its impossible to write a report that mentions all. Had hoped to do so but not enough time so here’s the shortened version that I wrote several weeks back with contributions from Ronnie and Evan for U13s and…

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Top quality at the Universities Indoor T&F

Top quality at the Universities Indoor T&F

NUIG’s Sinead Treacy and Aisling Keady (Field Captain) at the Universities Indoors(Photo credit: John O’Connor) The Universities Indoor Track & Field Championships took place at the weekend in Athlone with strong performances from several Craughwell AC athletes. These championships are one of the highlights of the athletics calendar each year and always very impressively organised. The Univerities has the best online results database by a mile that I have come across in the sport … check it out at www.iuaa.org …..

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U13s Shine at International Grand Prix

U13s Shine at International Grand Prix

Stepping stones to success!The victorious Craughwell AC U13 Boys 4x200m team who won the AIT International Grand Prix! Craughwell AC’s U13 relay teams enjoyed wonderful success at the prestigious AIT Grand Prix held in Athlone IT last week. Competing in front of a full house, both boys and girls teams put in a fantastic performance in their relays with the boys team winning in a time of 2:00.00 (Conor Penney, Keelan Moorhead, Cian Brady, Dean McNally) and the girls narrowly…

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Incredible run by Caron to claim National silver!

Incredible run by Caron to claim National silver!

Craughwell AC’s Caron Ryan, silver medalistat the National Intermediate Cross Country Championships held in Wicklow recently Caron Ryan produced one of the finest distance performances by a County Galway athlete in the past decade when taking the silver medal in the National Intermediate Cross Country Championships held on 8 February. The 5000m race was ran over a picturesque but challenging course in Rathdrum in County Wicklow where Caron followed up her bronze medal from last year’s National Novice Championships with…

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Senior women’s team place 6th at National Indoors

Senior women’s team place 6th at National Indoors

Craughwell AC’s team who contested round 2 of the National Senior Indoor League, placing 6th after the 2 roundsSarah Finnegan, Sinead Treacy, Sinead Gaffney, Laura Cunningham, Rachel Finnegan, Ellie Cronin Craughwell AC’s senior women’s team put in a strong performance to finish in 6th place overall in the National Senior Indoor League after round 2 in Athlone in January. Sinead Treacy stormed to 2nd place in the 400m in an impressive 57.99 setting a new club record in the process….

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Laura and Sean take National bronze!

Laura and Sean take National bronze!

    Laura Cunningham and Sean Cotter who both won bronze in National Champsionships in Januarywith Laura in the U23 Women’s High Jump and Sean in the U20 Men’s 1500m The club had a small number of athletes in action in the National U20 and U23 Championships held in January in Athlone. Sean Cotter got the day off to a great start for the club with a fantastic bronze medal in the U20 Men’s 1500m. In a tactical race with…

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