The Meath Athletics Awards took place on Saturday night in the Ardboyne Hotel in Navan a highly successful evening for Ratoath Athletic club, on the back of an exceptional 2023 fourteen of our athletes received the athletes of the year award in their age category, we were the winners of the Track & Field Indoor, Outdoor and Cross Country Leagues and also best juvenile club at the Track & Field Championships and Best Juvenile & Senior Club at the Cross Country Championships 2023 a superb testament to all the hard work and dedication put in by our athletes, coaches and parents, well done all.
The Awards were presented by Ratoath's very own Ronnie Quigley who recently took up the post as President of Athletics Meath.
Full list of Ratoath award:
The Heffernan Cup: Girls U9 Team
Rod and Gun Perpetual Cup: Boys U12 Team
D. O’Brien Cup: Girls U14 Team
Best Juvenile Club at the Cross Country
Championships 2023
Best Senior Club at the Cross Country Championships 2023
Meath Juvenile Inter Club Cross Country League 2023 WINNERS
Best Club at the T&F Championships 2023
Bob Heffernan Shield Juvenile Club
Inter Club Indoor T&F League 2023 WINNERS
Inter Club Outdoor T&F League 2023: WINNERS
**Cross Country MEATH ATHLETES OF THE YEAR Award**
Cross Country Athlete of the year U14-U16: Lydia Jordan
Cross Country Athlete of the year U17-U19: James Kelly (Jt)
Junior Ladies Cross Country Athlete of the year: Kayla Ryan (Jt)
Junior Male Cross Country Athlete of the year: Kyle Witter
**TRACK AND FIELD MEATH ATHLETES OF THE YEAR**
U11-U13 Track Male Athlete of the year Oliver Couch
U14-U16 Track Female Athlete of the year: Aisling Shevlin (Jt)
U14-U16 Track Male Athlete of the year: Theo De Bonis
U14-U16 Field Female Athlete of the year: Lucy Mooney
U17-U19 Track Female Athlete of the yea : Katie Doherty
U17-U19 Field Male Athlete of the year: Gavin Witter
U17-U19 Field Female Athlete of the year: Caoimhe Fitzsimons
Junior Track Male Athlete of the year: Jack O'Donnell
Senior Track Female Athlete of the year: Karen Hayes
Masters Field Male Athlete of the year: Michael McCaffrey
14 of our athletes who won medals at National Championships were presented with plaques noting their achievement.
Aisling Shevlin , Aisling Stratford, Caoimhe Fitzsimons, Eve Mooney, Gavin Witter, Jesse Osas, Katie Doherty, Laura Kelly, Loclainn Harris, Lucy Mooney, Lydia Jordan, Niamh Murphy, Oliver Couch & Theo De Bonis
A lovely night had by all. Our Club Chairman Ronnie Quigley did a fine job as President of Meath Athletics presenting the awards to all the athletes on the night and a huge thank you to Meath Athletics for their time and efforts put into compiling the results and organising the evening and beautiful awards handed out on the night.
