Craughwell Athletic Club

The best of the best in Irish Juvenile Athletics descended on a showery and windy Tullamore last weekend to battle for honours at the highest national level. In the U19 girls, Lauren Kilduff put an exclamation point on a stellar Juvenile career with a superb win in the 100m Hurdles in 14.51. Lauren heads to the states on scholarship next year and has gone from strength to strength throughout her Juvenile career. Lauren was joined on the podium by her…

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Several of the club’s athletes represented County Galway with distinction at the weekend in the Round 1 of the National League in Tullamore with some fine performances to help the country qualify for the August finals with a 3rd place finish in the Women’s competition and 2nd place in the Men’s. Leanagh Gilligan took 2nd place in the Women’s High Jump equalling her PB of 1.55m and went very close to clearing the 1.60m mark. Later in the day Leanagh…

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Craughwell AC’s athletes delivered a dominant performance at the recent Connacht Relays for the older juvenile age groups. The club’s U17 Girls raced to the Connacht title in their 4x100m in a time of 52.47 with Aisling Lavan, Isabelle Power, Laoise Scully, Faye Whelan and Adele Casserly. The U16 Girls did likewise in a time of 52.25 with Grace Drysdale, Ruby Maher, Faye Whelan and Adele Casserly. The club fielded 2 strong teams in the U15 Girls who raced to…

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Another brilliant day of athletics for Craughwell AC took place at the weekend at day 2 of the Connacht Championships held at ATU Sligo. Killian Burke and Grace Drysdale led the way with each taking double Connacht titles. Killian excelled in the U17 throws, heaving the shot putt out to 9.38m for the gold and doing likewise in the Discus with a huge throw of 22.25m. Grace was equally impressive in the U16 sprints racing to blistering times of 27.13…

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Craughwell AC’s youngest stars took to the track in Claremorris on Saturday for the Connacht U9-13s Track & Field Championships. There were many exceptional performances across the 4 age groups but none more so than the record-breaking performance from Katie Considine in the U11 Girls 60m where she took the Connacht title in a speedy 9.00 seconds and in the process breaking a 17 year-old record held by Westport AC’s Alannah Gannon. Katie combined with Aoibhin Gallagher-McKeon who raced the…

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