National Indoors Weekend 2 Nenagh

Three St Brendan's athletes travelled to Nenagh for the second weekend of the national juvenile indoor championships last Saturday.Eoghan Courtney was first up in the U17 long jump where he finished in second place with a jump of 6.07m.Peter O Brien was next in the U17 shot putt where he finished in 4th place but by his own standards threw poorly on the day;his Munster winning throw of 12.24 would have got him silver but with a long season ahead theres plenty of time to make up for it.PJ Galvin was once again over 1.90m in the U19 high jump with the top three athletes finishing on that height but unfortunatly PJ lost out on countback to finish in third place.Last but not least Eoghan was up again in the 200m where he won his heat to qualify for the final.In lane 2 he got off to an ok start but coming off the last bend he was trailing in fourth but powered home to take bronze in a PB of 23.90.Well done to all!

Our outdoor season will kick off next Saturday at the Leevale Open in CIT Cork.A bus will leave at 8am from Ardfert medical centre but U18s+ should be aware that the junior and senior program does not start until 2pm if they want to make their own way. http://www.leevale.org/attach/11/sports/sports_order.pdf

On Good Friday there is also a Kerry Easter Open Meet in Castleisland which is mainly geared towards field events including all jumps and throws with a few track events including short & long hurdles,400m,800m and a 2km steeplechase.I will post a program in the next few days here.

The RunKerryRun 5km is also being held in the Killarney Demense April 16th at 11am with registration at 10am at e10 entry.All funds from this race will go towards the development of Kerry athletics and more specifically the Kerry Juvenile Squads.Unfortunatly as we are away at the Leevale Open most of our athletes cannot attend but hopefully the club fit4life group along with family of the club athletes will attend.Its for a great cause!

Other Fixtures-
May 1st-Gneeveguilla Sports-Castleisland
May 8th-Estuary Sports-Tarbert
May 14/15-Kerry Juvenile T+F Championships

Shane :)