Author: CelticDCH Athletic Club

Our first National Juvenile indoor medal winner this weekend was Emily Corcoran in the under 16 high jump where she jumped a superb new pb of 1m 64cm. This puts Emily right up there with the senior high jumpers. This was a great achievement for Emily who hadnt been able to train for the last 10 days days due to a very bad throat and head cold. Then Alison Burke added to our medals with a brilliant run in the final of the under 17 hurdles finishing 3rd.Chloe Corcoran made the final of the 60m and the 200m, Daire Finn made the final of the 800m and ran in the 1500m final, Finn Burke Power qualifed for the 400m final under 18 and Evan McMillan ran in the final of the 1500m under 19. Well done to all.

Sat 12th Mar Brians group Santry at 11am Everyone else Hole in the Wall at 10.30

Sun 13th Mar Hole in the Wall 11am -everyone

Sat/ Sun National juvenile indoor in Athlone. Sundays programme will be Live streamed. Link will be on the athletics Ireland website. Best of luck tp Dora, Finn, Daire, Evan, Chloe, Alison, Emily.

Tue 15th Mar Hole in the Wall 7pm -everyone
Bogies at 4pm for anyone whos free

Thur 17th March Hole in the Wall 10.30 anyone whos free

The following athletes are competing in Athlone this weekend.

Sat 12th March

Finn Burke Power check in by 9.30 for 400m heats

Dora check in by 9.30 for 1500m heats if required
Daire and Evan also check in by 9.30 for 1500m heats if required

At 2pm finals of 400/1500 will take place

Chloe Corcoran and Alison Burke check in for 60m heats by 1.30

Finals will follow

Sun 13th March

Check in for 200m closes at 9.15
Chloe Corcoran and Alison Burke

Check in for 800m closes at 10am
Daire Finn and Evan

1.45 200m finals
2pm 800m finals if not run as finals at the heat time

Hurdles check in closes at 1.15
Alison Burke

High jump for Emily Corcoran is at 12noon on Sunday. Be there at 11.

A big thank you to all the helpers who got up bright and early on Saturday to work at the race in the Park. You all did a great job and your help was much appreciated by Athletics Ireland.

Sean is all Ireland schools minor boys champion!

Well done to Sean Donoghue who became the first boy from the club to win an Irish schools title when he won the minor boys race in Sligo today. He had been an impressive winner of the Leinster title three weeks ago but had been floored by a bad head cold for the following week. With plenty of rest and light training for the past week he recovered well and even though it was tough out there today he ran a great race , sat back for the first kilometer and then gradually made his way to the front to pull away for a great win. A brilliant achievement for Sean and proud day for his mam, dad, brother and especially his grandad who never misses a race. St Declans college should be very proud of this young man who is following in the footsteps of another Declans man Pierre who ran a great race to finish 5th over 8k in the men’s intervarsity race, his first time over that distance.
Cliona Murphy ran really well in the women’s intervarsity finishing 17th and Alison Armstrong came 19th in the senior girls schools race. Chloe Corcoran ran in the junior girls race and as a sprinter found the distance a bit tough.
Cross country season officially finished today😊

Watch the live stream here or below on Saturday 5th March from 12pm.