Reminder Meath Community Games Cross Country Finals

Meath Community Games Cross Country Finals

The Meath Community Games Cross Country Finals will be held on Sunday February 28th commencing at 11am sharp.

Venue: is St Bridgets AC, Ballinacrea.

It is advised to be at the venue no later than 10.30 to register.

Entry fee for all competitors is €2.

Please note all competitors must be under age on or before 31/7/2016.

More details in blog below

Leinster Individual Indoor Championships Day 1 & 2

Our athletes put in some terrific performances in the Individual events over day 1 & 2 of the Leinster indoor championships which were held last weekend in Athlone, the u12 girls brought home 3 medals with Laura Kelly finishing 3^rd in the U12 girls 60m hurdles, Sophie Quinn won the u12 girls 600m and Aishling Strarford placed 3^rd in the same race with some great running from both girls. Sophie Greene, Niamh Murray also competed well for the club in the girls 60m Hurdles. The u12 girls also competed well in the long jump, Sophie Quinn finishing 4^th with good jumping also from Sophie Greene and Aishling Strarford.

Aimee Doherty was up against it in very competitive u13 girls 600m event but did enough to hang on for the Gold with a confident gun to tape run. Amelia Campbell put in a great run also in her heat to make it through to the girls final where she finished 12^th. Fionn Drummond had a good run in the boys u13 600m finishing 2^nd in his heat and running a new pb to finish 7^th in the final. Fionn also finished 7^th in the high jump and 11th^th in the shot putt.

Lili O’ Connor was in good form finishing 2^nd in the girls U14 60 Hurdles in a great time of 9.53s in a very tight finish. Oisin Kelly, Killian Strarford, Ciaran Rogers, Stephen Kiernan and Matthew Hayes all ran well in the boys u14 800m, Oisin qualifying for the final with a p.b. of 2:25s where he finished 8^th. Karen Hayes ran a new pb also in the girls u16 800m finishing 7^th.

Well done to all of our athletes and best of luck to all who have qualified for Nationals in March.

 

 

Meath Interclub League Day 1 (a) next Wednesday 24th Feb

The first day of the Meath League takes place next Wednesday the 24th of Feb. Indoors in Cushinstown AC , just off N2 north of Ashbourne at Kilmoon Cross. 

Day 1(a) is for all even age athletes and Junior, Senior & Masters only, see event list below. (uneven event March 23rd)

All Ratoath AC members in the even age groups are encouraged to take part in this fun event.

Meath Athletics

InterClub Track & Field League

Wednesday February 24^th - 7.15 p.m. - Cushinstown AC

Program: Day 1(a) - Sprints

Boys & Girls			Born
U9			2008
U10	60m	Long Jump	2007
U11			2006
U12	60m	Long Jump	2005
U13			2004
U14	60m	High Jump	2003
U15	60m	High Jump	2002
U16			2001

Junior, Senior & Masters Events 60m & Long Jump

Rules:	1. Juveniles can only compete in their own age group.
	2. Max. 2 events per athlete.
	3. Club’s best 20 scores to count from each leg.
	4. First 3 Clubs to medal in Section A, next 3 to medal in Section B, and so on in Sections C, D, E etc. until all Clubs classified.
	5. Maximum two attempts at each height in high jump.
	6. Club entry fee to League - €20.00
	7. Junior, Senior & Masters Field events take place after the juveniles

Further League Dates: March 23rd, April 27^th, May 25^th, June 15^th

Notes:

Places on Meath AAI T&F League Team will be based on performances in Meath Championships & Inter Club League

For More Information Contact:

Maggie Higgins 087-2866815 or email marguerittehiggins@eircom.net

Leinster Indoor Relay Championships

The Club had some great results from Day 1 of the Leinster indoor championships which were held in Athlone over the weekend bringing home 5 medals, 2 gold, 2 silver and 1bronze.

Day 1 saw our sprint relay teams in action with our u13 boys and girl’s teams many of whom were running for their first time in competition. They all did themselves proud finishing 9th and 10^th overall in the 4 x 100m relay, well done to Kyle Witter, Fionn Drummond, Rickoy Murphy, Callum Whitbread, Amelia Campbell, Eno Okome, Blessing Duruanyawn and Elizabeth Buckley.

Our u15 boys Rafa McCaffery, Matthew Buckley, Tom Kilgannon and Kevin Dat Conway put in a powerful sprinting performance in the 4 x 200m relay, the lads had a comfortable win clocking 1mn 46s  and  just missed out on the Leinster record by 1s.

Our u19 boys team of Brian Kiernan, Eoin Clayton, Philip Marron and Peter Kilgannon clocked a new club junior record of 135.5s in their 4 x 200m relay and finished a very close 2^nd to our neighbouring club Cushinstown with only 2 tents of a second separating the teams.

We had two teams competing in the u12 girls 4 x 100m relay, our development team of Ciara Coroner, Sophie Greene, Caoimhe Fitzsimons and Lily Nannery put in a great performance and really enjoyed their experience finishing 16^th overall. Our A team of Laura Kelly, Aobh Forde, Aishling Strarford and Cara O’ Sullivan had a very tough heat finishing 3^rd and only qualified as fastest losers for the final. The girls took their chance and put in a storming run in the final taking 3^rd and qualifying for Nationals in the process.

Our u14 girls competing in 4 x 200m for the first time looked very good over the longer distance and won both heat and final with ease recording an impressive time of 1:54.95, well done to Lili O’ Connor, Emma O’ Connell, Ella Healy, Aoife Rutherford and Aimee Doherty.

The race of the day came in the u16 girls final, after a comfortable qualification heat our girls team of Aine Cooney, Ivie Okome, Emma Coroner and Maria Rogers all ran out of their skin to push SLOT Ac all the way to the finish line and only missed out on gold by .2 of a second, the girls set yet another 4 x 200m Senior club record of 150.70s in the process.