Spectacular Success for U12/13s at Connachts!

February 26, 2020 Mike Tobin

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 of 24 athletes taking part during the day.

Long jump – Keevagh Barry taking gold and Emma O Donavan making the 4th place qualifier for the Nationals. Emily Kinane and Megan Devane both had great days in the pit. Lauren Kilduff broke 3 times but no doubt will amend her run up and be back to her usual top 4 placing once again. Sean Hoade placed 2nd and Cian Brady placed 5th

60 meters sprint – Keevagh Barry winning gold with a massive PB and Claudia Fitzpatrick with an amazing run and PB to take 4th place national qualifier place. Emily Kinane, Ciara O Connor, Chloe Keane, Lauren Kilduff, Megan Devane all ran extremely well also. Cian Brady had an outstanding run to place 5th and picked up a new PB for his great effort

60-meter hurdles – Katelyn Walsh and Emily Kinane both had fine runs. Conor Penny took silver followed by Sean Hoade in 3rd. Declan O Connell had a great run and PB for his efforts

High Jump – Emma O Donavan won Gold and Chloe Keane finishing 3rd. Ciara O Connor also jumping very well. Conor Penny won Gold and Keelan Moorhead taking 4th to qualify for the nationals

600 meters – This in my opinion is an extremely hard event as the standard is so high to qualify. Emma O Donavan took bronze with an outstanding finish in the last 6om, which got the crowd going to say the least. Ciara o Connor had a great run and I believe a PB also. Keelan Moorhead got a PB and Declan O Connell ran their hearts out but only 3 to qualify and not their day.

Shot Put- Kiera Mernagh was our only athlete in the circle and as she said herself, “not my day”, but I have no doubt will keep training and working to get her just rewards in the coming years in the shot put.

1000 Walk – Lillian Walsh took Bronze, with a new PB to match!

Lastly were the relays. We fielded 3 teams for the girls and 2 for the boys

Chloe Keane, Ciara Mernagh, Kelly Hallinan and Lillian Walsh- team A
Emily Kinane, Katelyn Walsh, Megan Devane and Ciara O Connor – Team B
Lauren Kilduff, Keevagh Barry, Claudia Fitzpatrick and Emma O Donavan Team C- This team won Gold

With the boys relay teams

Jack Farrell, Declan O Connell, Stephen Ruane and Dara Sweeney – team A. Special mention to Stephen and Jack who were both sick and missed a lot of training came down to run with their team mates and not let them down. That’s respect and team work right there.
Conor Penny, Cian Brady, Sean Hoade and Keelan Moorhead – Team B. This team took Silver on the day.

Evan’s U12s report

An absolutely dominant weekend by Craughwell ACs U12 contingent. Our U12 team took home almost 40% of the medals on offer!! There were magnificent performances today from every single athlete. Here is a summary of all our athletes’ incredible achievements this weekend:

Relays:

The boys Relay teams won both Gold medals and Bronze medals, ensuring that Craughwell AC is represented by two teams in the Nationals: