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 :)