General Juvenile Training finished until first week in August.

Just a quick note to follow up on the email posted out last week. 

All general club training is finished until the Tuesday 5th August. U9's will resume on Mon 11th August.

Enjoy the Holidays and look forward to preparing for cross country etc in August and September. 

All Ireland Pairs Competition- Gold for Laura and Sophie

The All Ireland U9-11 Pairs and Relay championships were held last Saturday at Tulamore Harriers Stadium. A very large crowd was in attendance with over 1000 juvenile athletes competing from all over the country on the day. We had 6 girls competing from the club in the u10 and 11 events. Sophie Quinn and Laura Kelly were up first in the u10 60m, both girls ran well and finished 5^th overall with a combined sprint time of 20.36s. Niamh Murray and Sophie Greene were up next in the u10 long jump, the girls combined jump of 5.81 placed them 12^th overall. The mid distance and relay events were on in the afternoon session, Sophie and Laura combined very well and in the first heat, Sophie got the girls off to a great start running a terrific time of 1:35.17 to win her heat and also set the fastest time of the day. Laura ran in heat three and with a determined run she finished 2^nd in a time of 1:42.42. The girls combined time of 3:19.59 was good enough to win the gold and give the girls their first All Ireland Title. Aimee Doherty and Molly Keane teamed up for the u11 600m, Aimee was below par on the day running a time of 1:56 to finish 2^nd in her heat, Molly had a good run taking 6 seconds off her pb with a time of 2:11, the girls finished 8^th overall. The relays were the final event of the day and Sophie and Laura combined with Niamh Murray and Sophie Green to make up the u10 quartet, the girls ran a good heat finishing 2^nd to qualify for the final. The final was a very competitive affair and was won in a time of 1:03.57, the girls finished 6^th in a time of 1:05.67. Well done to the girls who competed so well at this level and who put in a great effort in training in recent weeks in the lead up to these championships.

Meath Inter Club League Report- Final Night

The final night of the Meath inter club league was held last Wednesday evening in Navan, the weather was glorious and it made for some great competition, We had a lead of 33 points in the Division A table heading into the final night and so needed at least 147 points to secure the title. Credit to our athletes who turned out in good numbers and performed very well on the night, our top 20 scores included fifteen 1^st place and five 2^nd place finishes to give us a total of 170 points and with it another Division A league title. (Subject to final confirmation from Meath Athletics)

Thanks to all our athletes and parents who attended the league over the 5 nights.

Draft results from the final night:

1^st Place

Tom Kilgannon U12 60m

Fionn Drummond U11 High Jump

Aimee Doherty U11 300m

Matthew Buckley U13 60m

Matthew Buckley U13 Shot Putt

Emma Coroner U13 60m

Lili O Conor U12 60m

Lili O Conor U12 Ball Throw

Sophie O Connor U13 Shot Putt

Lara Power U13 Shot Putt

Karen Hayes U14 1500m

Brian Kiernan U16 800m

Peter D. Master 400m

Hugh Kelly Master 3000m

Hugh Kelly Master Ball Throw

2^nd Place

Sophie Quinn U10 60m

Caoimhe O Flattery U9 250m

Aine O Connor U16 Long Jump

Aine O Connor U16 800m

Brian Kiernan U16 Long Jump

Ella Healy U12 60m

Kritsada Cooke u14 Shot putt

Fionn Drummond U11 300m

Sinead Swan- Senior Ladies 400m

3^rd Place

Laura Kelly  u10 60m

Ciara Coroner  u9 250m

Tom Kilgannon U12 Ball Throw

Zara Kane  u14 Shot Putt

Gareth Doyle  U16 long jump

Sophie O Connor u13 60m

Bernie Roche Master 400m

Tailteann Games - Sat 21 June

The Tailteann games were held in Morton Stadium, Santry today (21 June) with Alex Hunter competing in the intermediate boys 1500m steeplechase. Alex produced another PB when finishing 6th in 4 min 52.58 seconds - 3 seconds of an improvement on his previous best. This performance was all the more remarkable considering it came less than a week after he ran a magnificient 16 min 21 sec  to finish first junior and sixth overall  in the Streets of Sligo 5K run

Aaron Phelan was 7th in the triple jump with a best of 11.61m and is one to watch for the future.

Alex leads over the waterjump

Meath Community Games Results

The Meath Community Games Athletics Finals took place last Saturday at Cushinstown, the weather was warm and the rain held off which made for a great day of athletics and a good turnout from all areas. We had 29 girls and 22 boys competing from the Parish, plus a number of our club members competing from neighbouring areas. There were some very impressive performances on the day resulting in 10 Gold, 7 Silver and 15 Bronze medals in the individual events.

We were also very strong in the sprint relays winning 6 Gold and 3 Silver from the nine competitions entered. 

Congratulations to all athletes who have qualified for the National Finals in Athlone on August 23-24^th.

Results Meath community games Athletics county Finals
@ Cushinstown 14th June 2014
	Boys Track events			Girls Track Events
Place	Name	Area	Place	Name	Area
				U6 60 metre	County Event
			1st	Ava Scarrett	Ratoath
	U8 60 Metre			U8 60 Metre
1st	Cian Maye	Ratoath	4th	Erin O'reilly	Ratoath
	U8 80 Metre			U8 80 Metre
4th	Fionn Heffernan	Ratoath	1st	Katie Doherty	Ratoath
	U10 Hurdles			U10 Hurdles
3rd	Kyle Witter	Ratoath	4th	Bronagh O'Sullivan	Ratoath
	U12 600 metre			U10 100 metre
1st	Tom Kilgannon	Ratoath	4th	Laura Kelly	Ratoath
	U14 100 metre			U 10 200 metre
1st	Matthew Buckley	Ratoath	4th	Sophie Quinn	Cushinstown (Ratoath Ac)
	U16 100 Metre			U12 100 metre
2nd	Peter Kilgannon	Ratoath	1st	Lili O'Connor	Trim (Ratoath Ac)
3rd	Brian Kiernan	Ratoath	2nd	Ella Healy	Ratoath
			3rd	Emma O'connell	Ratoath
	U16 1500 metre
1st	Philip Marron	Ratoath		U12 600 metre
			1st	Aimee Doherty	Ratoath
	Boys Field Events
				U14 hurdles
	U12 Ball Throw		2nd	Lara power	Ratoath
2nd	Sean Buchanan	Ratoath	4th	Maria Rogers	Ratoath
	U12 Long Puck			U14 100 metre
1st	Sean Murphy	Ratoath	1st	Ive Okomo	Ratoath
			3rd	Aine Cooney	Ratoath
	U14 Long Jump
3rd	Daragh Casey	Ratoath		U16 1500 metre
4th	Cian Maher	Ratoath	2nd	Aine O'Connor	Ratoath
	U14 Shot Putt			Fields Events
2nd	Krisada Cooke	Ratoath		U12 Long Jump
3rd	Evan Maher	Ratoath	3rd	Emma Scttergood	Ratoath
				U14 Long Jump
			2nd	Emma Coroner	Ratoath
			4th	Sophie O'Connor	Trim (Ratoath Ac)
	Relay Teams Boys			Relay Teams Girls
	U10 mixed Relay
2nd	Ratoath
	U12 relay			U12 Relay
2nd	Ratoath		1st	Ratoath
	U13 Mixed Relay
1st	Ratoath
	U14 Relay			U14 Relay
1st	Ratoath		1st	Ratoath
	U16  relay			U16  relay
1st	Ratoath		2nd	Ratoath
	U16 Mixed Relay
1st	Ratoath