Another weekend of personal bests for our athletes at the Athletics Ireland Juvenile Indoors in Athlone with Gerard Murtagh coming very close to a medal when he finished fourth in a high quality U13 Long Jump with a new personal best.
Gerard, our youngest member in action on Saturday, came the closest to a medal when he actually took the lead in the competition on the fifth round, a 4.44m jump also a new personal best. Gerard improved that by one centimetre in the final but unfortunately, three jumpers produced exceptional efforts, including a new championship as he just missed out in the club's best performance of the 27 indoors.
Fiachra O'Dowd missed out on the U19 60m Final by one place and it was unfortunately the same in the 200m as, despite a 0.25 improvement, a magnificent new pb of 23.36 saw him miss out on the final despite a great performance.
The Sheerins also set new pbs in the U17 races - Clodagh, in a difficult lane 2, broke 27 seconds for the first time with a time of 26.91 while Niall broke 25 for the first time with an excellent 24.81, both big improvements on their times from the Connachts.
Shauna McCabe took three quarters of a second off her previous best when she ran 28.21 in the U18 heats.
Shane Finn threw a massive new personal best of 9.48m in the U14 Shot to finish 10th overall, a big improvement on his Connacht performance.
Lauren Reynolds was our last competitor in action as she ran a time of 2.39.30 in the U15 800m, just a little outside her best while her training partner Ellie O'Rourke reached the final with a new pb of 2.26.41 before finishing eighth in the final.
Many thanks to Anna Corcoran, Laureen & Oisin O'Dowd,Michael O'Brien, Michael Reynolds, Siobhan Murtagh and Niamh Ni Comhraide for travelling down with our athletes and supporting them so well on the day.
That brings our Indoor season to an end but we won't have too long to wait for the outdoor season as we have the Irish Universities next weekend in Cork. Roll on the Summer!
Photos from Athlone can be viewed on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/carrickonshannon.ac/media_set?set=a.987335738070756.1073741930.100003830187592&type=3&uploaded=10
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