Tuesday, April 17, 2012
St Senans AC and Leevale Open Sports report
On Monday the 9th of April Waterford AC athletes competed in St. Senans Open Sports. Despite the weather medals were there to be won. U9 Jack Corcoran 1st 80m sprint, U10 Victory Eddy 1st 300m, U11 Ethan Flynn 3rd 300m. U12 Cathal Scanlon 3rd in the Shot. U 12 Lyndsey McGuire 2nd 700m. U 13 Hugo Blair 2nd 700m.U15 Gwyneth Blair 3rd 700m.
The boys U10 relay race finished 3rd with the U 12 boys finishing 2nd. Just outside the medals but putting in some strong performances were U12 Jeff Fanning 4th in the U 12 700m and Jack Deegan finishing 4th in the 300m. Well done to all who braved the elements and participated.
Sunday 15th of April Lee Vale, Cork Leevale Open Sports day held in the state of the Art CIT Campus in Cork was well attended this year with hundreds of participants filling the stands from clubs all over Munster.Waterford AC had large number of athletes travelling to the highly competitive event. U 9 Jack Corcoran came 2nd in the 60m sprint, Victory Eddie ran a great race to take first place and the coveted gold medal in the U 10 80M Sprint.Jack Corcoran also came 2nd in the Under 10 300m. Hugo Blair was third in the U 13 600m and Gwyneth Blair was 2nd in the 100m hurdles.All athletes had to compete in heats on to semi finals then to finals.Many athletes competed up an age in events not catered in their age group.In the relays U10 boys won bronze, Dylan Rowe, Victory Eddy, Fortune Eddy and Jack Corcoran. U12 boys relay came in 4th, Ethan Flynn, Jeff Fanning , Lee Mackey and Cathal Scanlon. Other athletes who had good performances were Victory Eddie who finished 4th in the 300m final U 10.Sarah Jacob was 4th in the shot U12 out of her age.. Niamh Denn came through the heats to reach the U13 sprints finals.Ethan Flynn and Cathal Scanlon also qualified to the finals of the U 12 out of their age.Lyndsey McGuire was unlucky not to progress from the U12 semi final 80 m finishing in third place.Fergus O' Brien was 3rd in his semi final U 14 100 m just outside qualification for the final
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