Meath Uneven Ages Cross Country Report

The Meath uneven ages cross country championships were held yesterday at Fr. Murphy’s Athletic Club, Athboy, we had a great turnout from the club with 54 athletes competing from U9 up to U17. We were blessed with the weather again for the second week in a row and the relatively flat course at Fr. Murphy’s made for some very fast racing. The u9 girls and boys got the club off to a great start with both teams claiming team gold with terrific scores of 18 and 24 points respectively. There were some great individual performances from Sophie Quinn who won the u9 girls 800m in impressive style, with Ava Fay hot on her heels in 3^rd place, Laura Kelly 4^th and Hannah Bailey 10^th. The boys were led home by Cian Crawford taking 2^nd, Eoin Kane 3^rd, Harry O’ Connor 6^th and Sam Carey 13^th. 

The u11 girls were not to be out done, putting in a great team performance with 13 points claiming gold. Aimee Doherty led home the girls in first place with Ella Healy 2^nd, Aoife Rutherford 3^rd and Lily O’ Connor 7^th, Molly Keane also running well in 14^th, this all goes well for the Leinster cross country on the 10^th of November with all girls qualifying as part of a very strong county and club team. The u11 boys’ team came second with good performances from Tom Kilgannon 5^th, Kyle Witter 10^th, Matthew Hayes 12^th and Nathan O’ Connor 26^th. 

The U13 boys and girls teams also got their hands on medals, with the girls team finishing 2^nd and the boys team finishing 1^st, Karen Hayes had a strong finish to take an individual bronze medal, with Maria Rogers, Sophie O’ Connor and Rachel Doherty making up the four scoring members of the team. Harry Haskins was first home for the boy’s team in 9^th, followed by Fergal Kilgannon 15^th, Darragh Casey 17^th and Radu Olaru 25^th.

Aine O’ Connor was the only u15 girl out for the club and had a good run to finish 4^th in a highly competitive field. Alex Hunter had another great battle finishing 2^nd, followed by Gareth Doyle, Pierce Butler, Harry Bailey and Cormac Butler, the boys finished 3^rd in the team event.

Deirdre Healy made a great come back finishing 1^st in the girl’s u17 4000m. The boy’s u17 team also struck gold with good performances from Ciaran McCarty 1^st, Philip Marron 3^rd and Peter Kilgannon 4^th; this is another good club team to watch out for at the forthcoming Leinster Championships.

Thanks to all athletes and parents who attended both days of the Meath Cross Country Championships, We had our best year ever with Team gold in the Girls U9,10,11 & 12, Boys U9,10,13,16 &17, Team silver in the Boys U11 & 12, Girls U13, and Team bronze in the Boys U14 & 15. We also won 6 Individual gold, 5 silver and 6 bronze medals.

Thanks also to Fr. Murphy’s Ac who put on a great event.
More pictures at the link below:

 http://youtu.be/HPh3StPWMCg

FULL CLUB RESULTS:

	U9 Girls			U9 Boys
1	Sophie Quinn		2	Cian Crawford
3	Ava Fay		3	Eoin Kane
4	Laura Kelly		6	Harry O’Connor
10	Hannah Bailey		13	Sam Carey
11	Amy Forde		18	Mark Wallace
13	Sophie Green		20	Stephen Walsh
20	Ellie Mahon		23	Dara Johnson
23	Niamh Murray
25	Ella McCarthy
26	Shauna Cantwell
27	Sarah Thomas
	U11 Girls			U11 Boys
1	Aimee Doherty		5	Tom Kilgannon
2	Ella Healy		10	Kyle Witter
3	Aoife Rutherford		12	Matthew Hayes
7	Lily O’Connor		26	Nathan O’Connor
14	Molly Keane		36	Eoghan Kavanagh
27	Grace Mahon		41	Alex Flemming
41	Sinead McCarthy
44	Aoife Casey
	U13 Girls			U13 Boys
3	Karen Hayes		9	Hary Haskins
21	Maria Rodgers		15	Fergal Kilgannon
22	Sophie O’Connor		17	Darragh Casey
25	Rachel Doherty		25	Radu Olaru
29	Zara Kane
31	Emma Coroner
33	Rachel McPartlin
	U15 Girls			U15 Boys
4	Aine O' Connor		2	Alex Hunter
			12	Gareth Doyle
			15	Pierce Butler
			16	Harry Bailey
			17	Cormac Butler
	U17 Girls			U17 Boys
1	Deirdre Healy		1	Ciaran McCarty
			3	Philip Marron
			4	Peter Kilgannon