By David Butler, Head Juvenile Coach, St Brendan's AC
170 athletes from the U9 age groups through to U20 age groups competed for their clubs in triangular match between St Brendan’s AC, Iveragh AC and Lios Tuathail at An Riocht track, Castleisland. With events started just after 9:30am all athletes competed to their very best across a full range of athletic events from run, walk, throw and jump to try score points for their club. There was great excitement on many occasions with tight finishes in races as each club competed to be the first one across the line, to jump higher or throw further than the competitors in the other clubs in field events. With all the events competed just before 2pm the final scores were confirmed a few minutes later and this year, St Brendan’s AC came out on top with last year’s returning champions Iveragh AC in 2nd place and Lios Tuathail AC in 3rd place. The shield was presented to St Brendan’s AC joint club captains for the day, Maddison O’Connor and John McCarthy. All athletes were then rewarded with a medal based on that podium position for their club. Congratulations to them all, the motto of our club is "Athletics For All" and we hope that all athletes enjoyed the event and the joy that sport can bring. Athletics is simply a brilliant sport in that if you give it a try there is an event there for everyone.
Thanks to Lios Tuathail AC and Iveragh AC for making the trip to the track to join us in the match, it was an early start for all but with the events closed at 2pm it was off to enjoy the rest of the day in the sunshine. Thank you to the many volunteers who made the event possible, and to those helped out on the day to run the events off for the athletes. It's great bringing club officials, volunteers across clubs to work together on these occasions.
