Monthly Archives: November 2022

A mixed day of showers and bright spells gave way to plenty of muck at the county B even ages in Graiguenamanagh today - a tough introduction to cross country for our young athletes. The U8s were out in force and all received goody bags after their race. In addition there were honours for Kenny Lowry -1st in boys u8, and Lucy Maher, Eddie Kemple and Jane Byrne - 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively in girls U8. The under 10 girls were first club. The under 12 girls went one better finishing first and third club. They were well served [...]

Glasgow was the venue for this years SIAB   Combined Events International. Alex Cullen was in action on the Irish Intermediate team. Amassing 3143 points, a new PB, he finished 7th place overall thereby helping the Irish team to bronze medals.

It was a long treck for athletes and their supporters to North West Donegal for this years Even Ages, Junior, U23 and Senior All-Ireland cross-country championships. It was a well organised event - good course, well marshalled, good parking facilities. KCH had 26 athletes taking part and the end result was thirteen medals won by them. While winning a medal at national level is a fine honour, qualifying for a national final also merits recognition.  Our under 12s gave us plenty to cheer about. With huge numbers taking part the results were excellent. Amelia O'Brien 66th, Emma Kelly 69th, Hannah [...]

Club members were in many different competitions over the weekend.  USA Over in the US things are hotting up in the colleges cross country. Competing for Tulsa in the Mid West of the NCAA in Missouri was Shay McEvoy. And what a run he had to finish 3rd in 29.42 and lead the Tulsa team into first place. Grace Richardson was part of the action helping her New York University team. SANTRY The British and Irish Masters cross country were held in Santry on Saturday. KCH had two athletes involved. Brian Maher showed once again his immense talent. Competing in [...]

Another great performance from our long serving distance runner Brian Maher. Competing today in Santry Demense he turned on the style in the British and Irish International cross-country. Now in the O/45 category he took the gold in 26.05 to lead the Irish team to victory. First in his own age group and second overall - Well done and major congratulations. Jamie Gavin was also in action competing in the O/40s where he finished 9th (34th overall) in 27.44. Well done.

The MidWest Regionals were held in Missouri today. Tulsa University were keen to impress and backed by three Irish athletes - Dalton, Power and McEvoy- that is what they did. And most impressive of all was our own Shay McEvoy who led the college team home and placing third overall and with team members in 4th, 5th and 6th it looked good. The final result had to await all five to finish as Tulsa tied with Oklahoma on 49 points each. Tulsa were declared winners when all five team members were compared with their opposite numbers. Very close but a [...]

Mountainview proved an excellent venue for the Leinster Senior and Uneven ages cross country. And the weather was equally excellent. Our athletes did well to bring home 36 Leinster medals. There were 11 individual medals, twelve club medals and 13 with county teams. The first championship race was the U11 girls. Kate Kelly claimed her medal with a 10th place finish. Other team members were Ellen Ryan, Mealla Crowley, Vivienne Lepeskaite and Hannah O'Brien. The team was 12th. The boys were 7th club with Darragh O'Callaghan very much to the fore to claim individual bronze and a gold with the [...]