Best of luck to all the club members who are receiving Leaving Cert results tomorrow and maybe waiting on CAO offers next week.
Well done Phil
Well done Phil Healy who put in a great performance today in the heats of the 100m at the European Track & Field Championships in Zurich.
She finished 6th place in 11.53 and unfortunately will not progress to the next round.
Phil will be back in action later in the week at part of the 4x100m relay team where she will be hoping for a bit more luck.
Open Sports on 24th August
The club are hosting an Open Sports on 24th August with a very full program of events. There will be a number of events for Juvenile athletes as well as Junior and Senior athletes. Bandon AC is celebrating 50th years since the founding of the club and as a tribute to sports in bygone years, there will also be 3 cycle races as part of the program which are sure to catch the imagination of the crowd as it will be the first time many will have seen cycle race on grass. Also in attendance will be the Bandon & District Brass and Reed Band who will be entertaining the crowd.
This is a fantastic opportunity to finish the season with good performance and some mouth watering clashes are in prospect with a number of Junior/Senior athletes committed to attending.
There will be cash prizes for all the Junior/ Senior events as well as the cycle races, medals/trophies for the juvenile events. There will also be a raffle on the day with all proceeds going to help defray travel and accommodation costs for Bandon AC member George Waugh, whose son Leon was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Events get going at 12noon with the Juvenile sprints, Junior/Senior events start at 2pm. Full timetable and program of events and also pre-entry for Junior/Senior events are available here
Copy of Program which will be available on the day is available here
Well done Scott
Well done to Scott Gobson who won the U18 400m in a new personal best time at the Celtic international today. Great achievement.
Unfortunately, Scott had to withdrawn from the 4x400m relay team after picking up an injury.
Phil Healy
Best of luck to Phil Healy who will be taking part in the European Athletics Track & Field Championships in Zurich next week.
Phil will first be in action in the 100m heats on Tuesday.
Report on Phil’s recent success and a preview of Zurich was on the Irish Examiner on Sat
All-Ireland Combined events results
After a long competitive season two U14 and three U15 girls took part in the National Combined Events last Saturday in Tullamore. In stark contrast with the pleasant weather in Cork, the girls had to face incessant rain and cold conditions in Tullamore. The standard was high as no medals could be obtained this time, while all of them got new high scores in their pentathlons. Moira Barrett set a new “Total points” club record in the GU15, and Aisling Cassidy did the same for the GU14. Altogether the girls got 18 personal bests out of 30 performances, that’s something to be proud of! ltogether the girls got 18 personal bests out of 30 performances, that’s something to be proud of! Ciara McKeon added the GU15 club record for 80m Hurdles to her other recently obtained club record for 250m hurdles. Aisling Cassidy won the 75m hurdles and came very close to her recently set club record, while Laura Nicholson won her 800m.
Results:
GU15 (80mH, long jump, shot putt, high jump, 800m)
4th Moira Barrett: 14.71, 4.23, 8.44, 1.44, 2.39.57
5th Ciara McKeon: 13.81, 4.49, 8.24, 1.38, 2.52.52
7th Laura Nicholson: 14.91, 4.08, 7.00, 1.44, 2.3551
GU14 (75mH, long jump, shot putt, high jump, 800)
4th Aisling Cassidy: 12.29, 4.61, 8.09, 1.38, 2.40.18
7th Ella Stack: 14.05, 3.94, 8.86, 1.38, 3.07.36
(Report by Frank Stam)
Open Sports in Aug
Make a date in the diary…
Aug 24th – Bandon A.C. Open Sports in Town park, Bandon.
Juvenile events start at 12noon, with Junior and Senior events starting at 2pm
Online pre-entry for Junior/Senior events as well as the cycle races is now available here
Upcoming events
The All-Ireland Combined events are on this weekend and among the competitors will be
Aisling Cassidy & Ella Stack in the Girls u14, Moira Barrett, Laura Nicholson & Ciara McKeon in the Girls U15.
Wishing them all the best of luck.
The club will be taking a break from training now for a short while, official club training will resume on Wed the 27th Aug.
Training will continue for the Junior teams who are heading to Portugal and that will be by arrangement with the coaches.
International Selection
Well done to Scott Gibson who has been selected for the Irish U18 team for the upcoming Celtic Juvenile International in Santry on the 9th Aug
Scott will contest the individual 400m and he will also be part of the 4x400m relay team.
Wishing Scott the best of luck.