Recent Results

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Shane Howard and Rosin Howard were in action in the US recently as part of a University of Limerick team which competed in Boston against Harvard, Brown and a number of other US colleges in “Harvard Beantown Challenge” in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Shane took part in the Long Jump where he had best of 7.27m which was good enough for an impressive win. Shane had been due to compete in the 60m also but due to timing conflict he was unable to compete.
Roisin who is still working her way back to full fitness after injury took part in the Shot Putt where she finished in 11th place.
Well done to Shane and Rosin.

Report and results on Harvard web site

Well done Fiona

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Well done to Fiona Everard who was in action in Edinburgh at the International Cross Country on Sat, Fiona was part of the Junior Womens Development Team in the 4km race.
Fiona finished in 45th place and was 2nd home from the Development team. This was an excellent achievement in a high quality field which included athletes from Eng, Wales, Scotland, USA as well as European team which featured a selection of athletes from mainland Europe.

Well done Scott

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Well done to Scott Gibson who received notification of his selection for the Irish National Junior Men 4x100M Relay Panel.   The relay team is attempting to qualify for the IAAF 2016 World Junior Championships to be held in July, the qualification time for this event is 41.00s.

In addition Scott is running a crowd funding project to financially support his efforts to qualify for the 400M at the IAAF 2016 World Junior Championships.  His project page link is:

https://www.pledgesports.org/projects/400m-sprinter-iaaf-2016-world-junior-championships/

If anyone who like to support Scott, I’m sure it would be very much appreciated.

Membership info

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Some info for new members.
For anyone born in 2003 or earlier, there is no waiting list, they can join at any time.
For anyone born in 2004 or later, they can add their names to the waiting list and will be invited to join when a space becomes available. No names will be taken unless the child is actually 7years of age.

Any existing members who have not registered for 2016 are urged to do so as soon possible.

Munster Juvenile Combined Events

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Munster Indoor Juvenile U11-U18 Combined Events 2016

Three Bandon AC athletes represented the club in Nenagh on Saturday 2nd January for the first Munster Juvenile event of 2016.
In the girls U11 CE, Maia McCourt competed very well in her first CE finishing in 8th place when the scores for four events (60m, LJ, Shot, 600m) were tallied. This was also Maia’s first time throwing the shot in competition and she will benefit hugely from the experience.
The U16 girls are more seasoned competitors and our two representatives in this CE competition performed very well over the five events (60mH, HJ, LJ, Shot, 800m), taking home gold and silver to Bandon. Aisling Cassidy finished in first place. Her points total (2880 points) is a club U16 record and was the highest recorded in any of the age categories on the day. Her hurdles (9.71 sec, also a club record) and 800m (2min 37sec) times were also fastest of any Munster Juvenile athlete competing on the day. Ella Stack finished in 2nd place (2440 points). After a strong PB in the Hurdles (10.33 sec), Ella had solid performances in her other four events.
Our training partners from Old Abbey and Liscarroll also had a very successful day out. Aoibheann O’Connor finished 2nd in girls U17/U18 CE (2531 points), 1st in the Junior Womens 400m, and 2nd in the LJ. Daniel Hurley won gold (2446 points) and Diarmuid O’Connor won silver (2310 points) in the boys U15 CE. Brian Lynch finished in second place (3151 points) in the boys U16 CE narrowly missing out on gold on the day.
Well done to all and a promising start to 2016.
Report by Evelyn Murphy

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