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St. Senans athletes turned in star
studded performances at last Sunday’s
stage of of the County T&F championships
in Scanlon Park. In all the club took
home over 50 medals including 13 gold.
The early rain failed to dampen spirits
and there were some great runs by the
young juveniles who showed the benefit
of all the recent hard training.
Programme for
next week...
Girls Girls Girls
In the U/8 80m there was a clean sweep
for the club with Katie Murphy taking
gold, Eve Lacey silver and Alison Foskin
bronze. In the girls U/9 age group
Isabelle Morgan picked up a bronze for
her efforts in both the sprints and the
300m. Tara Lacey and Aoife Halley were
in fine form in the 600m winning a
silver and a bronze. In the girls U/14
800m Orla Butler had a great run taking
bronze, while in the 200m event Bronagh
Kearns also ran well to take bronze.
Fiona Dennehy was a class apart in the
U/16 walk, winning in style, while
Rosanne Kennedy had a good win in the
U/17 race. Rosanne also won a silver in
the 300mH. The U/17 800m saw a great win
for Rosanne Kennedy. The relays saw our
U/11 team of Michelle McDonald, Claire
McEvoy, Ellen Whelan and Aoife Halley
take bronze, while our U/15 team of
Ciara Vereker, Orla Butler, Aoife Butler
and Bronagh Kearns went one better
taking silver. In the U/11 long jump
Ellen Whelan had a fine series taking
bronze. Also in the field events there
was another clean sweep in the U/14
javelin with Ciara Vereker winning gold,
Karen Costelloe silver and Ciara Kennedy
bronze, while in the U/14 long jump
Aoife Butler and Ciara Vereker won
silver and bronze.
Boys Boys Boys
First into the fray was Evan Duggan who
won a bronze in the U/9 80m, while in
the 300m event Martin Davis won silver
with Evan again taking bronze. Jonathan
Crowley sprinted to bronze in the U/9
80m. Luke Morgan had a great run in the
U/15 400m finishing strongly for silver.
In the U/16 age group Conor Rochford won
250mH and also won a silver in the 100m.
The dynamic Daniel Davis had a great day
winning the U/17 250mH and walk, taking
silver in the 400m and discus and bronze
in the 100m and high jump.
Junior, Novice and
Senior
Leanne Foskin fresh from her exploits in
the Four County League still had plenty
of running in her legs taking silver in
the junior 200m. Janet Moore showed good
leg speed winning the novice 100m,
senior 100m and also taking silver in
the javelin. All the training is
starting to pay off. Adele Walsh was far
too good for the senior 1500m field
winning by a distance. Damien Walsh got
the senior men off to a great start
winning the 400mH in style and also
taking silver in the 100m and long jump.
Hopefully we didn’t miss anyone, if we
did you can blame Elaine, old age could
be catching up on her!! The next two
stages take place on Sun May 6th
and Sun May 13th.
Four County League
Champions
St Senans ladies team scored a great win
in the St Abbans Four County League
series, with Adele Walsh taking the
individual title and Leanne Foskin
placing 6th overall. The
final stage took place on Friday night
last at the St Abbans Sports Complex in
Monavea, and the team of Adele, Leanne,
Cait Caulfield and Tara Walsh completed
the final track race to emerge as
champions. The series also saw Sarah
Dollard, Rosanne Kennedy and Laura
Fennelly play their part and we are
delighted to see St Senans beat the
cream of Kilkenny, Wexford, Offaly and
Carlow. Good job girls!
All in her Stride
Adele Walsh was on the winner’s podium
again at the BHAA ‘Stride by the Tide’
race in Youghal last Wednesday, winning
the 4mile race in some style. Hard in
training at present Adele is looking
forward to converting her cross country
stamina into track speed over the summer
season and will be eyeing the Leinster
1500m and 5000m titles.
Fiona Wins All
Ireland Gold
The St Senans AC walkers turned in some
great performances at the AAI Juvenile
Indoor championships in Nenagh last
Saturday with Fiona Dennehy adding to
her growing reputation at the
discipline, by winning another gold
medal this time at U/16.. There were
fine efforts too by U/14 athletes Aoife
and Orla Butler, who are going from
strength to strength and Luke Morgan,
who is another talented all rounder.
Orla and Luke just missed out on a medal
in 4th place, with Orla less
than a second of the bronze medallist.
Fiona has been a model of consistency
over the past two years, with club and
school All Ireland medals allied to
Leinster and National records. She looks
set to be a serious contender at this
event over the coming years. Well done
to the four young athletes and credit
also their coach Pam Foskin, who has put
great personal effort into developing
the walks in Kilmacow.
Butlerstown 10K
Adele Walsh, Tara Walsh, PJ Dwyer and
Andy Dollard were among the 234 starters
at the popular Butlertown 10K last
Saturday night, with PJ finishing as the
second O/50 finisher. Adele was using
the race as a warm down after two hard
races in one week, while Tara and Andy
both had good runs. The race saw a win
for Sandis Bralitis of west Waterford
with Mary Sweeney taking the ladies win.
Good run by Larry Kennedy who just one
year shy of his 50th birthday
posted a time of 35.37. We trained him
well on those frosty nights in Kilmacow,
many moons ago!!
Three Race Series
Three upcoming road races to keep an eye
out for are the John Joe Barry 5K in the
Commons, Ballingarry on 4th
May at 8.00pm, the Ballygowan 10k in
Clonmel on 13th May at 2.00pm
and the Poulmucka 8K on 25th
May at 7.30pm.
Carrick on Suir get on on the act!
Not to be outdone the new Carrick AC
have developed their own summer series
of road races over the summer, check out
the
details.
Little South Run
Its nearly that time again when our own
4 miler, The Little South Run takes to
the streets of Kilmacow in aid of the
local Hospice Movement. The race, which
takes place on Sunday 17th
June at 2.30pm, is sponsored by Kelly &
Dollard Electrical and has a host of
prizes in all categories. There’s also a
fun run and walk and sponsorship cards
will be available shortly. Full details
on our website or from Bill at 051
885684
Kilkenny Road
Series
The 25th annual Kilkenny Road
Series got off to a good start when over
one hundred competitors took part in the
opening “two miler”. Stage Four, goes
ahead on Wed (10th May)
followed on successive Wednesday nights
with five miles and six miles and
concluding on Friday night(18th
May) with a three mile run. All
registrations take place in Woodies car
park with the Wed night races starting
at 7.00pm and the Fri one at 6.30pm.
Top finishers in the opening stage
were:- Men 1 Paul Cody (10.27), 2 Eddie
Maloney (10.39) and 3 Derek Deevy
(10.41). Ladies 1 Niamh Richardson
(12.14) 2 Barbara Rossiter (14.22) and 3
Teresa Daly ((14.38). |
