The Leinster Juvenile Relays were
held last Saturday at Shoreline Sports Park, Greystones, we had 8 teams
competing from the club from U9-14. The uneven age groups were on in the
morning session, the U9 girls’ team of Ciara Coroner, Erin O’ Reilly, Cara O’
Sullivan and Caoimhe Fitzsimons made their Leinster debut and put in a terrific
performance to place third is a closely fought race to win the first medals of
the day for the club. Next up were the U11 girls team of Sophie Quinn, Laura
Kelly, Aimee Doherty and Molly Keane, the girls finished 2nd in
their heat and qualified for the final where they placed 4th, a
great performance from the girls. The u13 boys’ team of Matthew Buckley, Tom
Kilgannon, Brian Kiely and Kevin Conway were very unfortunate in their heat;
the lads dropped the baton and were unable to recover in time to make the
final. The lads were in great form
coming in to this competition and would have been in the medals based on their
training times, they will be back to fight another day. The u13 girls’ team of
Emma Coroner, Kate Smith, Aoife Rutherford, Emma O’ Connell and Lili O’Connor
were comfortable winners of their heat and ran a great final to place 3rd
in another close finish.
The afternoon session brought our
u10 boys and girls teams into action, this was also a Leinster debut for the u10 teams, both teams qualified from their heats for the final, the boys team of
Christopher Dunne, Harry O’ Connor, Cian Crawford and Eoin Kane put in a great
run in the final finishing 5th. The girl’s team of Niamh Murray, Ava
Faye, Sophie Quinn and Laura Kelly were involved in one of the closest finishes
of the day; the girls combined very well and were narrowly beaten into silver
on the line by St. Josephs with a time difference of only 6 hundreds of a
second. The U12 girls team of Emma O’ Connell. Lili O’ Connor, Aimee Doherty, Aoife
Rutherford and Ella Healy were impressive in qualifying from their heat, the
girls then went on to win their final in a time of 58.88s. The best performance
of the day came from the girls u14 team who finished 2nd in a very competitive
field, the girls team of Aine Cooney, Ivie Okome, Lara Power and Emma Coroner
were only running together as a team for the second time but had faultless
change overs and were not far behind the winning team and All Ireland Champions
St. Laurence O’ Tooles. The girls time on
the day 54.24s was also a new club seniors women’s record.
Thanks to everyone who made the
trip to Greystones and best of luck to our teams who have qualified for the All
Irelands in June & July.
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