Congratulations to all our athletes who performed so well at last weekend’s Western Region Connacht Indoors in the AIT International Arena in Athlone. It was an exhausting but uplifting two days of competition and all our athletes came back home enthused after some great displays.
We started on Saturday with our U12 & U13 athletes and it was a day that captured both the highs and lows of our sport. The highs were two medals for Gerard Murtagh, second in the U13 Long Jump with a great new personal best of 4.33m and third in the 60m, again with another pb of 8.52.
Alan Beirne made his Connacht debut and it came so close to a medal as he finished fourth in the U12 60m in a great time of 9.17, just 0.02 of a second off the bronze. However, there is some consolation as his fourth place qualified him for the Nationals.
Our two U13 relays had a bit of misfortune as Roisin Kelleher took a very bad fall in her race while the baton hit the deck in the boys race but we know both teams will be back.
On Sunday, we had a fantastic day that started off with a brilliant performance from our U14 team of Patrick Charles, Shane Finn, Cian Mollohan and Toyosi Fagbo who were so dominant that Toyosi had time to look around on the final leg and ease down.
We’d get in trouble if we started listing everyone but we had gold medal winning performances from Sibeal Reynolds (U19 60m & Long Jump), Toyosi Fagbo (U14 60m), Clodagh Sheerin (U17 200m) and Cathal McElgunn (Senior 400m) while there were some fabulous displays from Alannah McGuinness, Lauren Reynolds, Sophie McCabe and Niall Sheerin.
It was also great to see so many people make their debuts in Connacht competition no more so than our U18 Boys team of Oisin O’Dowd, Brian Holohan, John O’Beirne and Niall Sheerin, of whom Brian, John & Niall were running their first ever competitions. It was the same too for Seniors Fergal Guihen and Luke Mollohan which shows it is never too late to start.
One special mention must go to Gerard O’Donnell - it is not often that we have a National Senior medalist compete in the Connachts for us but apart from running a time of 22.24, a time that ranks him 16th in Ireland over 200m this year, the time and advice Gerard gave to all our club members is certainly something that will inspire them over the coming weeks, months and years.
Thanks to all the parents who drove down on both days to cheer on all our athletes, it was very noticeable from the track. Special thanks to Alice Lynott, Siobhan Murtagh, Diane Charles, Mary O’Brien and Jenny McCabe for all their work outside the track. Well done also to Siobhan Whelan, John Connolly and Mary O’Donnell for their officiating work over the weekend.
And finally, thanks to all our athletes - it is not just the performances but the way they helped and supported each other over the two days that is the most inspirational aspect of the weekend for the coaches. Well done all.
The following are our results from the weekend:
U12 Girls
60m: 28 Keelin Cronin 9.91; 31 Faith Lynott 9.97; 40 Jodie Fitzpatrick 10.18; 50 Bronwyn Regan 10.40; 52 Sarah McDermott Lowe 10.49; 53 Sinikka McGlynn 10.53; 56 Emily Reynolds 10.58; 58 Aoibhinn O'Connor 10.63; 64 Aoibhe Morahan 11.32
600m: 21 Faith Lynott 2:12.67; 22 Keelin Cronin 2:13.27; 26 Jodie Fitzpatrick 2:19.00; 28 Emily Reynolds 2:20.01; 30 Sarah McDermott Lowe 2:22.15; 31 Aoibhinn O'Connor 2:22.27; 35 Aoibhe Morahan 2:30.06; 36 Bronwyn Regan 2:31.90; 38 Sinikka McGlynn 2:35.18
Relay: 7 Carrick-on-Shannon; 13 Carrick on Shannon
U13 Girls
60m: 21 Rachel O'Connor 9.57; 30 Roisin Kelleher 9.69; 45 Bronagh Brennan 9.96; 53 Seoirse McGlynn 10.26; 54 Allie Reynolds 10.27; 59 Ellie O'Brien 10.77
Relay: 17. Roisin Kelleher, Bronagh Brennan, Allie Reynolds, Rachel O’Connor 1.09.82
600m: 21 Seoirse McGlynn 2:07.68; 22 Ellie O'Brien 2:09.5; 28 Allie Reynolds 2:12.91;
Long Jump: Roisin Kelleher 2.99; Rachel O'Connor 2.68
U14 Girls
60m: 4 Sophie McCabe 8.72; 21 Eleanor McDermott 9.45; 23 Kate Regan 9.48; 27 Aoibhinn O'Dowd 9.57;
800m: 15 Helena Reynolds 2:56.82
Relay: 7 Eleanor McDermott, Kate Regan, Aoibhinn O’Dowd, Helena Reynolds 2:10.71
Shot: 7 Eleanor McDermott 5.83
Long Jump: Sophie McCabe 3.43; Helena Reynolds 2.92; Aoibhinn O'Dowd 2.61; Kate Regan 2.37
U15 Girls
60m: 6 Aine McGwynne 8.46; 33 Elsie Harman 9.63;
800m: 3 Lauren Reynolds 2:35.42
Relay: 3 Aine McGwynne, Elsie Harman, Lauren Reynolds, Sophie McCabe 2:00.13
U16 Girls
60m: 2 Alannah McGuinness 8.17; 9 Seonna Devaney 9.24; 17 Ailbhe Cryan 9.56; 19 Laura Conlon 10.00
200m: 5 Alannah McGuinness 28.08; 11 Laura Conlon 30.82; 12 Seonna Devaney 31.17; 18 Ailbhe Cryan 32.77
U17 Girls
60m: 4 Clodagh Sheerin 8.43
200m: 1 Clodagh Sheerin 27.38
1500m: 3 Anna Corcoran 5:36.71
Relay: 3 Clodagh Sheerin, Anna Corcoran, Seonna Devaney, Alannah McGuinness 1:57.39
U18 Girls
60m: 3 Shauna McCabe 8.43
200m: 3 Shauna McCabe 29.07; 4 Bruen, Kasey 29.33
400m: Kasey Bruen 68.23
U19 Girls
60m: 1 Sibeal Reynolds 8.45
200m: 2 Sibeal Reynolds 28.7
Long Jump: 1. Sibeal Reynolds 4.70
U12 Boys
60m: 4 Alan Beirne 9.17; 19 Darragh Gardiner 9.54; 19 Oliver Kearney 9.54; 31 Dara Holmes 9.79; 35 Aaron Gardiner 9.91; 45 Frank Cullen 10.21; 46 Cian Casey 10.31
Relay: 7 Darragh Gardiner, Alan Beirne, Oliver Kearney, Cian Casey
Long Jump: Frank Cullen 3.05m
U13 Boys
60m: 3 Gerard Murtagh 8.52; 8 Liam Chandler 9.01; 9 Dhani Keane 9.02; 15 Ben Finn 9.14; 21 Daniel Martin 9.36
600m: 11 Daniel Martin:59.72
Relay: 6 Dhani Keane, Ben Finn, Liam Chandler, Gerard Murtagh 61.61
Long Jump: 2 Gerard Murtagh 4.33; 8 Dhani Keane 3.76; Ben Finn 3.23; Liam Chandler 3.22
U14 Boys
60m: 1 Toyosi Fagboi 8.01; 5 Patrick Charles 8.42; 14 Shane Finn 8.81; 28 Ross Flanagan 9.61
800m: 21 Cian Mollohan 2:49.43
Relay: 1 Patrick Charles, Shane Finn, Cian Mollohan, Toyosi Fagbo 1:51.31
Shot: 4 Shane Finn 8.65
Long Jump: Toyosi Fagbo 3.49; Ross Flanagan 3.11
U15 Boys
60m: 12 Daniel Bosquette 9.01;
800m: 19 Iarlaith O'Brien 2:39.87; 23 Jack Keenehan 2:53.80
Long Jump: Daniel Bosquette 4.00
U16 Boys
60m: 10 Oisin Kearney 8.10
200m: 5 Oisin Kearney 25.37; 8 Evan Corcoran 25.86
800m: 7 Evan Corcoran 2:17.80
1500m: 8 Eoghan Farrell 4:58.61
Relay: 3 Oisin Kearney, Eoghan Farrell, Daniel Bosquette, Evan Corcoran 1:49.56
U17 Boys
60m: 3. Niall Sheerin 7.91
200m: 4. Niall Sheerin 25.31
1500m: 3 Fiachra Henry 4:39.81
U18 Boys
60m: 7 Brian Holohan 8.34; 8 Oisin O'Dowd 8.42
1500m: 7 Oisin Boland 4:42.66
200m: 9 Brian Holohan 26.87; 10 Oisin O'Dowd 27.40
400m: 3 John O'Beirne 59.81
Relay: 3 Oisin O’Dowd, Brian Holohan, John O’Beirne, Niall Sheerin 1:44.82
U19 Boys
60m: 3. Fiachra O’Dowd 7.48
200m: 3. Fiachra O'Dowd 23.61
Senior Men
60m: 5 Callum Whelan 7.78; 7 Fergal Guihen 8.28; 9 Luke Mollahan 8.35
200m: 2 Gerard O'Donnell 22.24; 5 Kyle McNabola 23.58; 7 Cathal McElgunn 23.66; 16 Callum Whelan 25.99; 18 Fergal Guihen 26.69; 19 Luke Mollahan 27.23
400m: 1 Cathal McElgunn 52.51; 2 Kyle McNabola 53.58
4 x 200m: 1 Cathal McElgunn, Niall Sheerin, Luke Mollohan, Fiachra O’Dowd 1:37.92
3 Callum Whelan, Kyle McNabola, Fergal Guihen, Gerard O’Donnell 1:38.34
We have a busy schedule ahead of us for the Athletics Ireland Juvenile Indoors at the end of March, beginning of April and we need to know now who will be competing.
SATURDAY MARCH 25
SUNDAY MARCH 26
