Leevale Open and Easter Training

We made the trip to Cork yesterday for Leevale Open Sports with all travelling having a fantastic day out at a very well run competition made even better by the fantastic sunshine.This was our season opening competition basically dusting off the cobwebs from indoors for the long season ahead.Below are the results which include 9 personal bests-



U15-Shane Lowth,6th 100m,6th 800m
U15-Matt Clancy 3rd LJ,3rd 80mH,5th 100m
U16-Pa Gilbert-5th 100m
U17-Eoghan Courtney 1st 100m 11.88 PB


Senior-
PJ Galvin-1st HJ 1.79m,4th 100m B Final PB 11.69 in heat.
Eoghan Courtney-3rd 400mH 60.8
Ailbhe Courtney-3rd 400m Equal PB 58.5
Katie Rogers-4th 800m PB 2.28
Dylan Roche-6th 100m PB 11.42,6th 200m 23.4
David Hogan-2nd PV equal PB 3.20m,800m 2.13
Luke O Keeffe-400m PB 51.8
Michael Grimes-PV PB 2.60m
Eogan O Sullivan-PV PB 2.40m
Pa Gilbert-PV-2.40m
Una Marley-PV 2.40m
Katie O Riordan-PV 2.40m
Rachel Dennessen-PV 1.60m
Peter O Brien-Guest Shot 12.00m
Jack Regan Kirwan-LJ 5.96m,100m 12.3
Luke Griffin-100m 12.3,200m 26.1
Elaine Courtney-100m 12.1 hand time PB,200m 26.8 PB

Well done to all.:)

Easter Training-
Tuesday 19th-7-9pm-Walnut Grove
Wednesday 20th-6-7.30pm-An Riocht-All Technical
Thursday 21st-7-9pm-Walnut Grove
Friday 22nd-Easter Open Sports-4-9pm-An Riocht http://kerryathletics.com/fixtures/kerryopen.pdf
Saturday 23rd-1-2.30pm-An Riocht-All Technical
Sunday 24th-10-11.15am-Gym,Tralee Sports Complex

Shane :)

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 :)

March Round Up 2011

Darragh Lowth was the only club athlete to make the long trip to Magharafelt for the national indoor championships where he competed in the 600m.He finished 3rd in a huge PB of 1.47 with less than a second seperating the first four athletes.Well done Darragh.


The St Brendans AC U9-U14 athletes once again retained their Kerry sportshall title in Kenmare by the minimum of 1 point!!!!!!!!!!!! Even though our numbers were down this year the group of athletes that travelled competed fantastically with everybody bringing home at least one medal with most athletes bringing home a bunch of medals.I dont have a list of athletes that took part at present but well done to everyone involved!


St Brendan's AC hosted the Kerry 5km road championships on March 20th.We had two sole representatives in Caoimhe Casey 3rd in the novice women and Artur Nowak 4th in the O40 mens category.Well done to both athletes and thank you to anybody who helped out in any way on the day and especially Ardfert national school for allowing us the use of the school.


Well done to both Orlaith Casey and Shane Lowth who qualified from the North Munster schools cross country to compete at the Munster schools cross country where both athletes acquitted themeselves well.


Welcome to the following new athletes who have joined my group in the last month or so-Matt Clancy,Tom Clancy,Ben Clancy,Rachel Murphy,Grainne Griffin,Jamie O Carroll,Naomi O Sullivan,Aodha O Carroll,Cathal and welcome back to Thomas Nolan,Daniel Shanahan,Quinn Newsome,Aoife Leahy and Ashling Dwyer.


Get well soon to Stephen Walsh and Edward O Carroll who will be out for a while through illness/injury.


Shane :)

Club Awards Night

Over 100 people attended the annual club awards night in the Ballyroe hotel on Saturday March 5th to celebrate the fantastic season the club had in 2009/2010.The following were the main award winners with all Munster and National medal winning athletes also recieving a presentation on the night but there are too many to list which is a good complaint to have.John Clifford was a fantastic MC on the night with club band "Beneficial" providing the entertainment with David Hogan aka Junior D bringing the night to a close with a disco.A fantastic and well deserved night was had by all!


Best Male Athlete-PJ Galvin
Best Female Athlete-Una Marley
Best Male XC Athlete-Darragh Lowth
Best Female XC Athlete-Katie Rogers
Most Improved Male-Eoghan Courtney
Most Improved Female-Katie O Riordan
Best New Male Athletes-Peter O Brien & Fergal O Brien
Best New Female Athlete-Amy Phelan & Ciara McCarthy
Most Committed Athlete-Ailbhe Courtney
Hall of Fame-Patrick O Riordan
International-PJ Galvin,Una Marley,Eoghan Courtney,Clarence Kennedy
Special Award-U13 Scottish Superteam Champions- Iarla Courtney,Fionan Mackessey,Shane Lowth,Billy Courtney


Shane :)

Apologies

Apologies for the lack of updates as of late but my laptop is on the blink.I will have a full report on the club awards night during the week along with some info on the outdoor season ahead.Please check the fixture list on the sidebar as 99% of the years outdoor fixtures have been made.

Training is still going solid on Tuesdays in Ardfert hall with Artur,Thursdays in Nisus Fitness with McCabe and Saturday in An Riocht and Sunday in the sports complex gym both with myself.From April 5th training will change to Tuesday and Thursday in the community sportsfield in Walnut Grove from 7-9pm.Wednesday school sessions will then finish and be replaced by a self gym session in the evening.Saturdays will remain the same at 1-2.30pm in An Riocht with Sundays also remaining the same at 10am in Tralee sports complex when there are no competitions.If the weather is ever too bad to train on Tuesdays and Thursdays we will move indoors to either Nisus fitness or Ardfert hall.

On the competition front our season opener will be April 16th at Leevale Sports in CIT,Cork.Following that we will hope to retain our juvenile track and field title on May 14/15th at the County championships with the Mens team hoping to retain the Quill cup at the Kerry senior T+F on May 29th.June 18/19th will see the Munster U14-U19s in Castleisland which will give us a fighting chance of retaining the Munster juvenile title we won for 2010.June 26th will see us travel to Tullamore to the national juniors with July hosting the two national juvenile weekends.

Im hoping that over the next few weeks we will get our 2011 influx of new teenage athletes as ive started to set up the Causeway comp school athletics team for 2011 so will hopefully bag a few stars like Peter and Patrick again this year.All help would be greatly appreciated if anyone from the other schools are off any day that they could come and give me a hand.Thank you Amy and Una who did so last Tuesday :P

Shane :)

Munster Juvenile Indoors & National Seniors 2011

On February 19/20th four St Brendan's athletes travelled to Belfast for the national senior indoor championships which was a great learning experience for the young athletes that attended.PJ Galvin finished in 5th position in the high jump with a pb of 1.90m at just 17 years of age.Ailbhe Courtney had double pbs in the 400m with 60.8 finishing 9th and 26.3 when finishing 3rd in the B final and 7th overall.Dylan Roche also made the B final with a pb of 23.4 also finishing 7th overall and last but not least Luke O Keeffe finished 10th in both the 200m and 400m with pbs of 52.5 and 23.8.As the club endevours to bring the clubs juvenile athletes through to senior level these senior competitions will become a vital part of their development and a huge learning experience.Well done.

The Munster Juvenile indoor championships for the U9-U13s were also held in Nenagh on the 19th and 20th.A good size contingent travelled both days and competed well.Darragh Lowth once again won gold in the 600m and finished 2nd in the long jump U12.Eoghan McElligott was 2nd in the U13 high jump and for good measure finished fourth in the 60m hurdles.The last medal on the weekend came from Darrgh Courtney who finished 3rd in the U11 long jump.

The Munster U14-U19 indoors were also held in nenagh last weekend with the club bringing home 30 medals and a host of personal bests.The star performer of the weekend was Eoghan Courtney who won three gold in the 60m hurdles,long jump and high jump with silvers in the 60m and 200m.The following is the list of all other medal winners-

Gold-
Eoghan Courtney-60m hurdles,LJ PB 6.14m,HJ PB 1.65m
Clarence Kennedy-60m hurdles
Peter O Brien-Shot Putt,PB 12.23m
Una Marley-60m hurdles,PB
Silver-
Eoghan Courtney-60m PB 7.52,200m
PJ Galvin-HJ Equal PB
Clarence Kennedy-60m PB 7.40,Shot Putt PB 11.36m
Amy Phelan-LJ PB,HJ Equal PB 1.45,Shot Putt
Jack Regan Kirwan-TJ,LJ PB 6.14m
Luke O Keeffe-400m PB 52.3
Ben Dennessen-60m hurdles
Boys U18 Relay-Luke O Keeffe,Ben Dennessen,Edward O Carroll,PJ Galvin
Bronze-
Amy Phelan-60m hurdles PB,TJ
Una Marley-HJ
Ben Dennessen-Shot Putt PB
Patrick Gilbert-200m PB
Quinn Newsome McDonnell-60m hurdles PB
Jack Regan Kirwan-HJ
Luke O Keeffe-200m
David Hogan-800m
Iarla Courtney-LJ
Boys U17 Relay-Patrick Gilbert,Michael Grimes,Eoghan Courtney,Quinn Newsome

Others to perform well were Shane Lowth who had PBs when he made both the 60m and 800m finals U15,Erik Feitshans and Danny O Shea finishing 5th and 6th in the U18 shot Putt,Orlaith Casey and Rachel Dennessen who did well in the 60m hurdles,Luke Griffin in the U19 60m missing the final by one place,Dylan Carey who ran well in the 800m and Staff and Apples who ran well on the U19 B relay team.Well done to all.

Shane :)