Our big girls were in action today at the National Intermediate cross country in a very mucky Dundalk IT today. The girls ran really well as a team with Niamh Donnelly 10th, Clare Brennan 22nd, Sinead Cronin 25th, Aislinn Moorehouse 26th and Aoife Ni Bhroin 39th. They finished 3rd team overall and this completes their cross country season for 2016. Well done girls!
Our girls were on fire at the Leinster schools qualifers last week in Avondale and ALSAA. On Wednesday in Avondale Alison Armstrong came 3rd in the senior girls race at the East Leinsters.
Friday was North Leinster day in ALSAA. First off was the minor girls team from St Dominics. Clare Murphy ran the race of her life finishing 2nd overall, Anna Petit, Sara Byrne, Cliodhna Donaghy and Gillian Murphy ran their socks off to win the team title for their school!
in the junior girls race Dora Medgyesy continued her fine form ( despite a heavy Cold) with a fine win. Her team finished 3rd with Sara Jane Darcy also on the team narrowly qualifying for the Leinsters. Good to see Ella Mae Cromie back in action for Mount Temple in the junior race with Laura May Galvin also on their team.
In the senior girls race Ellen Byrne battled all the way to 6th place and led her team of Aoife Corr, Emily Murphy, Abbey Corr and Aoife Donaghy to 2nd behind a very strong Loreto Mullingar team.
Great running from all the girls and especially great to see the Murphy girls all back running well . Keep it up, its not going to get easier!☺. Leinster up next on 10 Feb in Santry.
Sat 23rd Jan Hole in the Wall 10.30 any one who cant make Santry at 12noon Santry at 12 noon -everyone. Anyone who races North Leinster rest today.
Sun 24th Jan Hole in the Wall 11am -everyone
Tue 26th Jan Hole in the Wall 7pm-everyone
Bogies at 4 for anyone whos free
Wed 27th Jan High jump in the Hall 6pm
Thur 28th Jan Gym at 7pm
St John Bosco Hall 7pm
West Leinster schools XC 11AM Phoenix Park(all the girls races followed by all the boys races).
Save the date! Our annual Parkside Schools Cross Country series of races will be held on Wednesday 2nd March in John Paul Park (The Bogies) in Cabra.
More details around the entry procedure etc will be published in due course.
All the dates, locations and information for all juvenile competitions in 2016 can be found here.
We had a host of Celtic/DCHers opening up their indoor seasons at the National League in Athlone today.
Special mention to our DCH Women’s Team who managed to finish at the top of the league table by the end of the day . Scoring members for the team this weekend were Catherine in the Shot Putt (3rd) & 60m Hurdles (1st), Alison Burke in the 60m (6th) & Long Jump (4th), Niamh Donnelly in the 800m (2nd) and Muireann McGinley in the Pole Vault (3rd). Great work and onwards to League Round Two on the 30th of Jan where even more of the team will be out in force!
We had even more Celtic/DCHers in the guest 800m races with Aoife Ni Bhrion, Aoife Corr, Pierre, Finn, Evan and Jamie all in action getting some solid indoor race experience on the Athlone track. It was great to see everyone working hard giving it their all! Well done!
Thanks also to coaches and family members for giving lifts and support on the day.
We will post the official results here once we can get them from the AAI site & sprint videos when they are uploaded.
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