Lauren McCourt competed in a very fast 400m (U23) to finish 2nd just 0.01 secs behind the gold medal. Gavin Kenny (1500m) and Aoife Tuthill (3k walk) placed 3rd in there respective events. Ella Collins and Lucy O’Flynn both competed in the U20 1500m finishing in 14th and 17th respectively.
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CHRISTMAS
EUROPEAN CROSS COUNTRY
Fiona Everard competed on December 10th in Brussels, Belgium at the European Cross Country Championships. Fiona was selected based on her impressive win at the National Senior Cross Country Championships in Gowran. Fiona competed in what was a very difficult course over 9km to finish an impressive 34th place, she was the third irish athlete across the line. The Irish team finishing 6th.
On December 18th Fiona was awarded for all her sucess in the Cross Country season for 2023 at the West Cork Sports person monthly awards in the Celtic Ross Hotel.
NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 – DECEMBER 2023
NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY
10 Bandon members will represent the club on the Cork teams at the weekend at the National Cross Country Championships in Navan, Co Meath.
Laoise NiConchuir – U11
Cormac Murphy – U11
Liam O’Keeffe – U11
Aoife Harte – U13
Isla Wilson – U13
Shane Winters – U13
Caoimhe O’Regan – U15
Daniel Dollard – U17
Ella Collins – U19
Lucy O’Flynn – U19
MUNSTER ‘B’ CROSS COUNTRY
Well done to all athletes who competed at the Munster ‘B’ Cross Country in Riverstick.
Medal winners include
Michael Collins 1st BU11
Liam O’Keeffe 8th BU11
Caoimhlin Duggan 10th GU15
Isla Wilson 8th GU13
Ellen Dollard 10th GU13
TEAMS –
GU13 – 2nd
BU11 – 3rd
Michael, Liam, Isla & Caoimhlinn all were part of the Cork teams for their ages placing 1st in the BU11, GU13 & GU15.
AGM NOVEMBER 17TH 2023
Elected members of the executive committee for 2024
President – Brendan Crowley
Chairperson – Adrian O’Flynn
Vice Chairperson – Patrick McSweeney SNR
Secretary – Laura McSweeney
Competition Registrar – Patrick McSweeney JNR
PRO – Evelyn O’Reilly
Head Coach – Susan McCourt
Club Captain – Catriona O’Leary
Treasurer – Carmel Lucey
Child Officers – Darren Crowley & Susan McCourt
Social Media – Laura McSweeney
2 Delegates to the West Cork Board – Laura McSweeney & Deirdre Donovan
2 Delegates to the County Board – Patrick McSweeney SNR & Brendan Crowley
7 members to the executive
Deirdre Donovan, Pauline Callan, David O’Keeffe, Darren Casey, Orla Ward, Padraig Duggan, Denise Harrington
Grounds, Fundraising & Development committees and others
Deirdre Donovan, Denise Harrington, Richard O’Flynn, Leo Flynn, Darren Crowley, Kevin Wilmot, John O’Donovan, Ann Kelly, Jim Clover, Una Hutchinson, Michael Weldon, Michael McKeown, Paul Kingston, Tom Laffan, Frank Stam, Stephan Lindenfeld, Ger Tobin & Don Coughlan.