It was a great day out for Craughwell AC’s Master athletes as they took to the track in TUS Athlone. First up was the 60m sprint. Ronnie Warde ran a blistering race and took home the Gold medal in a brilliant time of 7.45. Ronnie was followed closely by Cormac Kearney who was only 2 hundredths of second off his PB with a time of 7.57 and John Walkin who ran great race finishing with a fine 8.01 placing the…
College Athletics has a fantastic buzz at the moment, and it’s great that we have so many excellent colleges with coaches delighted to collaborate with club coaches for the betterment of athletes. I think it’s really worth encouraging your kids to try out College athletics, even if they have never tried athletics before! The IUAA Indoors took place in AIT yesterday and it was a day’s sports entertainment worth paying top-dollar to see – except it was free!! Jack Miskella,…
A very short report in on a super two day’s Cross Country during the week. A change this year was to have the girls on Wed and the Boys on Thursday and I think it worked out quite well with timing, etc. My lunch break meant I missed the earlier races but there were some fantastic results from Craughwell AC athletes for their schools, including almost a clean sweep of victories in the lads races! (I haven’t had the chance…
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It was great to be back inside a full and post-pandemic AIT as the National League Round 2 proceeded in full force. It was a great day for Craughwell AC as club records fell across a range of disciplines and the club ended up with its highest Men’s team total ever in this competition, narrowly missing out on the finals by a single place. Well done to all athletes, officials and coaches for making it possible. Special thanks to AAI’s…
The club had a large contingent of athletes in action yesterday with some wonderful performances at the National Indoor Combined Events Championships in Athlone IT. A long day which kicked off the with U15 girls and boys high jump at 10am in the morning concluded just after 7pm in the evening with the youth women’s 800m. But despite the long day, from a coach’s perspective it was wonderful to have a competition without the pandemic restrictions of everyone staying in…
A small group of athletes from the club returned to compete in Nenagh Olympic’s fine indoor facility at the weekend – the first time in a decade that we have competed down there. Most of our indoor competition moved to the indoor arena in Athlone after it was opened in late January 2013. Nenagh have expanded their facility in the intervening years, adding an L-shaped extension which accommodates high jump, pole vault, shot putt and a small gym – a…
On Saturday night the inaugural Connacht Athletics Awards were held on Zoom to much fanfare. Host and PRO Pierce O’Callaghan of Tuam AC did an exceptional job of chairing the event which was attended by hundreds of spectators and a large number of Athletics celebrities including Irish 1500m and Mile Record holder Ray Flynn, multiple world Cross Country medalist Cathriona McKiernan, Olympians galore including Olive Loughnane, Paul Hession, Mary Cullen and many many others. The Connacht Athletics PRO job will…
Craughwell AC entered its first ever men’s team in the National Indoor League on Sunday in Abbotstown and they performed admirably. The league involves competing across a range of events and totals are awarded based on position. For round 1, Cormac Kearney ran in the 60m, coming 5th in his heat with 7.55 to score 4 points. Ronnie Warde finished 5th in his 200m in 25:35 to score 2 points. Patrick Noonan was a late draftee in the 800m and…
Christmas is a rare quiet period for athletics, and during this gap between Cross Country and Indoors the athletes sometimes venture onto roads for a road race or two to have some fun and gauge fitness for the season ahead. Galway is lucky to have two high-quality races on its doorstep – the Classic Fields of Athenry 10km and the Resolution Run 5km. Thanks to Craughwell AC’s John O’Connor for the photos in this article – check out his other…
