Athletes from the club had a fantastic day at the Connacht Schools Multi-Events today in Athlone’s International Arena. Both Evan Hallinan and Jade Moorhead were in scintillating form in the 60m hurdles early in the day with both athletes breaking or equaling the club’s U20 record for the event. Evan raced to a time of 9.39 over the 3’3” hurdles to take the victory and shave 0.06s off Ben Garrard’s record set in the Irish Schools CE finals back in…
The AAI Autumn Open Cross Country festival is the first major National Cross Country event of the year. Though national medals are not awarded, this popular event is an opportunity for top-class racing against the best in Ireland and abroad for significant prize-money and to see where people stand for the National Cross country a month later. In addition, the Masters race is a selection race for the prestigious five-nations British and Irish Masters Cross country in early November. In…
On Sunday the weather turned out exceptional in Loughrea for the Galway Senior and Even Age Cross Country. William Fitzgerald has had a year to forget with injury but won his second Galway Cross Senior Title in a row William settled in the pack for the first few kilometres and switched to another gear on the 4th before settling again to a comfortable win, always in control. Mark Davis was second man home for Craughwell in 9th followed by Mark…
Cross Country season continued apace this week with the Galway Primary Schools Cross Country final in Renmore on Tuesday and the Galway Even-ages Championship in Bushfield Loughrea on Tuesday. In Renmore there were some fantastic results for Craughwell AC Athletes representing their schools. Alan Hallinan once again stole the show with an outstanding win in the 5th and 6th class boys final. Alan led his Craughwell N.S. team of Darragh O’Donnel, Sean Colleran and Zach Keane to a marvellous first…
