Author: CelticDCH Athletic Club

Lots of cross country action this week with the East, West and north Leinster schools events in the Phoenix Park. We had a big spread of athletes over a lot of schools so let Mary know if we have omitted anyone.

Saoirse competed for her school on Wednesday in the junior race in the East Leinster.

West Leinster was on yesterday and Amelia was on her school team which came 3rd. Maggie and Tom were also in action for their schools. Megan and Ella were on their school scoring team finishing 3rd in the junior girls.
Aoife’s team won the inter girls and Ava’s team were 3rd

In the North Leinsters today in the park we had Jessica , Pearl ,Saoirse , Caroline, Maisy and Emma winning the minor girls team race.
Goda, Erin and Aoibhinn won the inter by one point! Abigail and Daniel both competed for their schools in the inter races.
Cliodhna , Lily and Eva ( great job Eva) came 3rd team in the senior girls race.

A little breather this week and back at it next weekend!

Aimee and Niamh are competing in the AAI games tomorrow morning In Abbottstown in the 400m. Best of luck
girls.

Sat 27th Jan older crew who raced today meet at HITW 10am for recovery run. Dunboyne track 9.30 warm up sprints and hurdles group.

28th Jan HITW 11am everyone

Tue 30th Jan Grange Gorman at 7 for older cross country group. NIA 7.15 every else.

Thur 1st Feb Grangegorman at 7 everyone.

Closing dates coming up for day 2 and 3 of the Dublins. Check Dubljn athletics website.

A very busy two hours of indoor relay races were held at the NIA this morning. 5th and 6 th class pupils from local schools were invited to take part in a joint venture between Dublin City council sports officers and CelticDch.

We had a number of club athletes very proudly representing their schools .
Rion led her school to first place in the 5th class A final, Hector, Canice and Edward helped their 5th class team to a great win in their A final.
Lelia, Ellen and Juliette were on podium for their 6th class A final. Eoin’s team just missed out on a team medal in 4th place.
A very exciting morning of races. Thank you to David, Dave, Dermot, Emily, Maria and Jane for helping to make it happen.

We had a very successful first day of the Dublin indoor champs . The 200m races were first off this morning . Martha had a very good day finishing 4th in the 200m final with the fastest 6 times over 7 heats progressing to the final. Alice just missed out on a final place.

Aimee Ryan came a very good 3rd in an equally competitive 200m final under 17. Niamh ran very well in the under 18 200m but missed out on a final
Spot.

Rion and Ellen made their debut over the hurdles under 13. Rion won her heat by a huge margin and unfortunately hit a hurdle in the final which surely cost her a medal. Ellen ran well in her heat but didn’t make the final (next time)!

Maisy ran a brave race in her first ever hurdles race in the under 15 , missed out on a final place this year but can only get better for the next race.
Star of the day was Martha who followed up her 4th in the 200 with a brilliant win in the hurdles under 16.

We finished off the day with another medal with Alice jumping her way to bronze in the under 16 long jump!

Great day. Well done to all and thank you to the parents who supported.

Sat 20th Jan Dunboyne track 9.45 warm up sprints group( not competing on Sunday in NIA) plus middle distance group born 2010 and older.

Sun 21st Hole in the wall 11am
Every one not competing today in NIA.
Best of luck to our competitors today on Day 1 of the Dublin indoors in NIA

23rd Jan National indoor arena assemble at 7.15. Revolut 4 euro or cash on the night.

Thur 25th Jan Grangegorman at 7 everyone.

Good luck to everyone competing this week in the Leinster secondary school
Cross country qualifiers in the Phoenix Park. Also to all the primary school athletes competing in the primary schools indoor relays on Thursday in NIA.

Please find below detailed check in information for the upcoming juvenile indoors

Athletes MUST check in and collect their bib numbers themselves before the closing time for their event highlighted in red. Failure to check in will mean the athlete cannot compete.