Juvenile

Another busy weekend for our young athletes. It started with the County Walks on Friday evening where Cillian Maher continued his race walk development with first place  in the U14 Walk. RELAYS Saturday then it was on to Carlow for the Leinster Relays. The younger age groups had multiple teams and faced serious competition from across the province. The club had fewer podium appearances than had been the norm in the past. However with the younger ones coming along the future looks good. Today there was just one gold and four silver - U16 girls gold; U11 girls, U13 boys [...]

The bulk of the U12 and U13 Leinster track and field championships were held in Tullamore today in conjunction with the Leinster Pairs. Great results for Conor Laurence Delaney and Aaron Tyrrell with gold in high jump and 600m respectively. The events held and results were as follows:- 600m - U12 Eddie Kemple 11th; U13 Aaron Tyrell 1st (1.43.18), Danel Quinn 11th. Sprints - U12 60m Lucy Maher 24th, Isabelle Hoyne 31st and Roisin Hyland 34th. U13 80m Conor Laurence Delaney  14th, Aaron Tyrrell 29th, Sam Cuddihy 31st. High Jump - U12 Roisin Hyland 2nd (1.20). U13 Conor Laurence Delaney [...]

A number of our "younger athletes" got exposure to some development experiences at the PAIRS championships in Tullamore today. The under 9s in action were as follows :- 300m - 12th Feidhelm Norry and Matthew Healy. Betty Carroll ran the distance in 59.92. In the 60m sprints Hannah Murphy and Ruby Foster were 12th; Betty Carroll and Maeve Buckley were 16th. Hazel O'Gorman and Matthew Healy ran as individuals. In the long jump we had Ruby Foster and Hannah Murphy in 1oth place. Maeve Buckley and Hazel O'Gorman were 20th. Feidhelm had an individual jump of 3.05. The under 10s:- [...]

The All-Ireland Schools track and field championships were held in Tullamore. A number of KCH athletes represented their schools with distinction. Borris College had outstanding athletes in Daniel Greene and Thomas Murphy. Daniel took first place in the Minor 800 (2.7.00) while it was also gold for Thomas in the Senior 2000m steeplechase (6.09.35). Victor Lamph, Intermediate,  starred for Clongowes with silver in 400 hurdles (58.00) and bronze in 400 (50.20). Loreto had three athletes competing - Ella Sorohan produced a fine run to win the Junior 200m (25.61). Clodagh O'Callaghan placed 4th in Senior 1500m (4.41.69) and Amelia O'Brien [...]

Our athletes did themselves, their schools and the club proud when competing in the recent South Leinster Schools and Leinster Schools Championships. Over thirty medals were won in the South Leinsters, including eleven gold and all did well in the Leinster finals.  LEINSTER RESULTS Minor championships - Ellen Ryan 7/75m hurdles; Bella Quaglia 7/shot; Daniel Greene 1/800 (2.11.71); Teagin Mtinsi 7/shot. Junior Championships - Emily O'Keeffe 7/1500; Sam Woodcock 4/1500; Ella Sorohan 1/200. Intermediate championships - Ellen Daly 3/300m; Ellen Cormack 7/800; Sinead Cormack 5/1500; Victor Lamph 2/400 and 2/400 hurdles; Eoghan O'Farrell 4/400; Kyrell Mtinsi 1/800 (2.00.63); Jasmine Timmons [...]