National Juvenile Track & Field

Well done to everyone who competed last weekend at the GloHealth Athletics Ireland Juvenile Championships in Tullamore, a busy couple of days for all our athletes.

Our top finisher was Ellis Conway who reached the U16 100m with a time of 13.25 in the heats where she finished 4th while she ran 13.40 in the final to finish eighth. Ellis was also in action on Sunday in the 200m where she finished tenth overall, her time of 27.34, also a new pb, leaving her 10th overall but unfortunately outside the final.

Caitlin Surlis was also in action in the same javelin and shot competitions, finishing 9th in the Shot with a throw of 8.60m and 11th in the javelin with 20.87m.

Emma O’Connell threw 8.82m to finish 13th in the U14 Girls Shot.

In the short sprints, Gerard Murtagh was closest to qualifying for the final, his time of 8.77 just 0.06 away from a place in the U12 60m Final while Sophie McCabe ran 11.34 in the U13 80m where she finished 13th overall

Oliver Charles was 15th overall in the U14 80m with 10.83 while Callum Whelan ran 12.36 in his U19 100m. Shauna McCabe was 15th overall in the U17 100m in a time of 13.77 while Fiachra O’Dowd ran 24.03 to finish 6th in his U18 200m heat.

Well done to everyone and special thanks to all the parents who travelled down to Tullamore to cheer on the gang.