Athlete of the Year Kelly Proper receiving her award from Ray Colman and Liam Hennessy.
At the National Athletic Award Ceremony in The Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry last Saturday evening, Kelly Proper, Ferrybank AC was crowned Field Athlete of the Year. Nationally and internationally Kelly had another great season in 2010, especially in her best event the Long Jump. She broke her own National Record with a leap of 6.60m and also retained her Irish titles in the event, both outdoor and indoor.
Inter Varsity Road Relays
At the All-Ireland Inter Varsity Road championships in Maynooth on Saturday last, Laura Behan, KCK was a member of the DCU team that finished second in the women’s race and Paddy Hogan, Ferrybank was on the WIT team that finished third in the men’s event.
Huge County Championships entry
On Sunday last in excellent conditions the County ‘B’ Juvenile Cross Country Championships were held in St Augustine’s College Grounds, Abbeyside and had the biggest entry in the history of the event. There were winners from Waterford AC, West Waterford, KCK and An Ghaeltacht. The following were the results:
Boys under-9: 1st Caolen McGrath, An Ghaeltacht; 2nd Gavin Blair, Waterford AC; 3rd Darragh Pender, West Waterford AC.
Boys under 11: 1st Aidan O’Brien, West Waterford; 2nd Tadgh Glavin, do; 3rd James Walsh, KCK.
Boys under-13: 1st Eoin O’Brien, West Waterford; 2nd Cormac Heinen, KCK; 3rd Mick Devine, do.
Girls under-9: 1st Kylie Heinen, KCK; 2nd Katie Ahearne, An Ghaeltacht; 3rd Emily Murphy, West Waterford.
Girls under-11: 1st Eileen Veale, An Ghaeltacht; 2nd Emily O’Mahony, West Waterford; 3rd Emily Keane, KCK.
Girls under-13: 1st Hannah Power, KCK; 2nd Gwneth Blair, Waterford AC; 3rd Rachel Wyley, West Waterford.
Girls under-15: 1st Saoirse Casey Power, Waterford AC; 2nd Orla Keane, An Ghaeltacht; 3rd Sarah Wyley, West Waterford..
Special under-8 races results: Boys – 1st Oisin O’Riordan, West Waterford; 2nd Alan Curran, West Waterford; 3rd Dylan Rowe, Waterford. Girls: 1st Grainne Kiernan, KCK; 2nd Grace Power, KCK; 3rd Clare Caulfield, Waterford AC.
Dungarvan Races
On Sunday morning approximately 100 competed in the Annual 3 and 5 miles races near Bushy Park sponsored by McGrath’s Newsagents, Dungarvan. The main race was the five miles and it was won by Ravis Zakis, West Waterford in 28 minutes and 49 seconds. Declan Power from the same club was second in 29.31 and Eric Meade, East Cork was third in 30.01.
Angela McCann, Clonmel was first lady home in 32.22. Liz Nyhan, West Waterford was second in 36.28 and Elaine O Donoghue was third in 37.57. The first junior male home was Damien Murphy, West Waterford.
West Waterford tops
West Waterford AC were awarded the Best Club in Munster Award over the two Sundays of the Munster Juvenile Cross Country Championships. Congratulations to all concerned with the club including their coaches.
Munster Fixture in Abbeyside
On Sunday next in St Augustine’s College Grounds, Abbeyside the Munster ‘B’ Juvenile Cross Country Championships under-9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19, as well as the Masters Men’s and Women’s Championships will be staged with a 12 noon start and lots of athletes from clubs in Waterford City and County will be competing in each category.
On Sunday week, November 28th in Oakleaf College Grounds in Derry the National Inter Counties Junior and Senior as well as the Juvenile Even Age Group Championships will have an 11.30am start.
Further ahead
Other fixtures coming up in the near future are: Saturday December 4th, National Race Walking Championships in Cork.
The distances are: Men over 30 Km and Women over 20 km. Also on the programme are races for boys and girls u 13, 15 and 17 and Junior Men and women; first event at 10am at Lee Rowing Clubs Pavillion.
The Schools Combined Events International will be indoors in Glasgow on Saturday December 11th and on Sunday the 12th the Munster Juvenile and Masters Combined events will be in Nenagh. Tullamore will be the venue on Sunday, December 19th for the All-Ireland Novice and Uneven Juvenile Cross Country Championships.
Winter League
The Annual Winter League in the City continued on Thursday last with hundreds participating and it continues each Thursday from the RSC at 7pm sharp, so come along in good time to get on your marks.
Registration from 6.15pm. and clearly visible reflective clothing must be worn
Win in US for McCarthy
David McCarthy (West Waterford AC) had his first cross country race of the season on Sunday week last in the USA and made it a winning start with fifteen seconds to spare over Timothy Ritchie from Boston Athletic at the USATF Open at Franklin Park Boston. Result: Men 10k Run CC – 1 David McCarthy, Ireland 30:06; 2 Timothy Ritchie, Boston Athletic, 30:21.3; Brian Harvey, do, 30:26.
Waterford Half-Marathon
Coming up on Saturday, December 11th is the Annual Waterford AC Half Marathon at 11am Full details of online entry form, postal entry form, route etc on Waterford AC website, which also has lots of other information as have the other athletic clubs in the County on theirs.
The Athletics Ireland and Munster Athletics websites are also packed with info.
Waterford AC Juvenile AGM
A great crowd attended the Waterford Athletic club’s juvenile section AGM on Thursday last. The following officers and Committee were elected for the coming year: Chair –Albert Tebay, Secretary – Tom O’Brien, Treasurer – Ray Power, Child Officer –Tanya McDonnell, Designated person – Brian Swaby; Committee – Shirley Boyle, Margaret Waring, Tom Murray, Harry Culbert, Richie Waring, Cait Caulfield, David Murphy, Brian Scanlon and Gabrielle Blair.
Juvenile membership is now 280 registered members with the AAI which makes us now a very big club. We hope to build on things and the mood at the AGM was very encouraging. Lots felt Waterford should do more to have events within the county such as a stronger T&F and a few open sports, so it was agreed we would try to be more active over the next year.
Congratulations to our 12 parents who qualified as Level 1 AAI coaches last week and lots of information on Waterford AC website.
