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United Striders Athletic Club is in Kilmacow.9 hours ago
Well done to all our young Striders who took part in the Kilmacow Inter-club competition between St. Joseph's Athletic Club, St Senans AC, Waterford AC and United Striders Athletic Club yesterday evening. The kids put in great performances all around. Unfortunately, we didn't win the cup on this occasion, but had a great day out nonetheless 🙂It was a lovely way to finish off the season. Well done to all involved 👏 Enjoy the summer break. We look forward to seeing you all again next season 💪. Go Striders! 🏃🏻♀️🏃🏼 ... See MoreSee Less
2 days ago
County Track & Field, evening 1, EnniscorthyLuckily the rain held off to give us an enjoyable & rewarding evening, with a mix of age categories of U18, U19, Novice, Masters O35, Masters O50 and the very coveted Senior category.
3 Senior County titles - Thomas Harrington, David Larkin, Joe Lillis.
A fantastic mix of results with many Senior medals earned to take county titles. The men took 1, 2 & 3 in the Senior 800m and again in the Senior 5,000m.
Turnout was low, but the Striders made their appearance known. I thought maybe it was my eye sight as there was often a squibble of rain, but no, it was the Striders men or Kate coming again in another race, that familiar singlet of black with the white stripe making yet another round of the track!!!
A special mention and thanks to our Chair George Delaney and Sandra Young for taking charge of the registrations and results for the evening. And of course to all of the Wexford Athletics officials.
And to cap off a great evening, our ladies team was 3rd, and the men won the 4x400m Senior relays.
Drum roll please: 🥇🥈🥉
Emma Hannon
1st U18 1,500m
3rd Senior 4x100m relay
Kate Reidy
1st Novice 3,000m
3rd Senior 200m
3rd Senior 4x400m relay
Sonya Byrne
1st Masters O35 400m
3rd Senior 4x400m relay
Aine Cullen
1st Masters O35 Shot Putt
2nd Senior Shot Putt
3rd Masters O35 1,500m
Sandra Young
3rd Senior 4x400m relay
(after a busy evening of officiating!)
David Larkin
1st Senior 200m
2nd Senior 800m
(4th Senior 5,000m)
1st Senior 4x400m relay
Thomas Harrington
1st Senior 800m
2nd Senior 200m
2nd Senior 5,000m
1st Senior 4x400m relay
Joe Lillis
1st Senior 5,000m
1st Masters O35 1,500m
3rd Senior 800m
1st Senior 4x400m relay
John McGrath
2nd Masters O35 1,500m
3rd Senior 5,000m
1st Senior 4x400m relay
Pat O'Callaghan
1st Masters O50 1,500m
A special mention to Padraig Hore, who didn't get to start the 100m due to an old injury flaring up. We really hope you can make it back next week.
Reminder of evening 2 next Wednesday 6th of July in Enniscorthy. See you there. ... See MoreSee Less
5 days ago
AI registered : support our county clubs: great to see club runs back, best of luck Menapians Athletic ClubMenapians A.C. are holding a 5K Road Race on 1st July.Register at: menapians5kroadrace.itsyourrace.com
Wexford County Council Sport Ireland Healthy Wexford Menapians Athletic Club ... See MoreSee Less
2 weeks ago
Emma competing in the u14 girls 1500m at Leinsters ... See MoreSee LessForms
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The Striders Juveniles had another great day out, in the Adamstown winter sunshine today, at the Wexford Juvenile Cross Country Relay Championships. In addition to having great athletes, their parents deserve a special mention today, as their help and support allowed us to field a remarkable 44 athletes, in 11 teams.
The U10’s got us off to a great start, both winning county silver medals. Orlaith Ryan, Aoife Wall, Isabel Haberlin and Katelyn Corish were our flying girls team. Charlie Flood, Charlie Power, Eoin O’Brien and the fast finishing TJ Murphy, with super-sub Billy Carney, made up our boys team. These guys all did really well, considering it was the first cross country event for some and even the first ever competition for others.
We came close to fielding a GU12 team, with Sarah Lillis, Hannah Carney and Kate Corcoran all available for selection. All girls were great on the day and helped the coaches with the warm-up, for the younger teams. The eight U12 boys were split into two teams and they performed really well, more or less finishing together, in second and third places. It’s quite rare for club to win multiple medals in this format, especially the very competitive younger age groups. So a big well done to Maitiu Wall, Roan Kavanagh, Donagh Grennan, Fionn MacEochaidh, Liam O’Brien, Gearoid Byrne, Dylan Galvin, Daniel Redmond and Harry Power, who have all improved so much with Emma and Sonya’s training group.
Suin Brennan was the star of the GU14 team, who won silver, by slotting in, at late notice, allowing us to field a team. Despite competing in one of the biggest fields of the day, the team of Suin, Ava Kehoe, Maeve Burke and Heather Costello were always well positioned and it was no surprise to see these talented ladies do so well. Our first win of the day came courtesy of the BU14 squad of Eanna Grennan, Max Murphy, Sean O’Brien, Sam Myers and Eoin Hannan. With the leg distances up to 500m, Max led this team off to a great start and the boys won in some style.
In the U16 age group, we had five teams, who landed four medals. The girls squad of Ava Leacy, Cora Noonan, Gilliana Laforge, Keelin Juul Jensen, Isabel Bawden, Hazel Hickey, Aoife Lyng and Ellie Byrne made up two teams finishing second and fourth. Meanwhile our BU16 squad, who will soon attempt to successfully defend their national title, in this format, had the perfect result. Tommaso Hickey, Sean Lennon, Luca O’Connor, Eoin Shannon, Caolan Costello, Ben Myers, Cosmo Hewlett, Myles Hewlett, Aidan Kehoe, Finn Kelly, Will Park and Cael Colfer made up three Striders teams, to finish first, second and third.
The cross country relay format is a little challenging to organise, so thanks again to all parents for their patience and their support. However team medals are the most rewarding. Apologies to those parents and athletes who were available, but we were unable to make team for. The good news is that we will be needing everybody to help out in the coming months as we try to win the best-club trophies at some big upcoming events. Well done to all today and congratulations to our latest batch of Wexford medal winners.
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