All-Ireland Juvenile Indoors

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Well done to all club members in action at the All-Ireland Juvenile Indoor Championships in Athlone.
Fintan O’Shaughnessy was the sole medal winner from the club on day 1 as he won Bronze in the U18 Long Jump.
Bethany Haigh was 4th in the u16 1500m, Bella Sherlock was 4th in the U17 1500m, Ella Nicholson was 7th in the u16 60m and 6th in the Long Jump.

On Day 2 of the All-Ireland Juveniles there was just one medal for club members.
Laura McSweeney won the U19 shot putt, Laura is of course no stranger to success at this level and this was her 5th indoor title Shot Putt in a row and her 7th indoor title in 8 years.
Aisling Cassidy finished in 8th in the U13 Long Jump, Fiona Duggan was 7th in the U18 Shot Putt

Full results from both days on AAI site

Munster Indoor Results

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On Saturday 9th March a number of our athletes headed off at 7.00am to
compete in the Munster Indoor Multi-Events and Relay Championships in
Nenagh, in what was a hotly contested competition.

It was a very long day for our multi-event athletes with fantastic
performances from all and with some great outcomes. Most of them set new
personal bests, and some even more than one! These athletes showed
outstanding courage and ability in sprint/sprint hurdles, long jump, high
jump, shot putt and 800m in, for some, their first multi-events competition.

Well done to the following whose performances earned them medals in the
multi-events competition:-
Emily Palmer – 3rd U18
Carla Hicks – 2nd U15
Moira Barrett – 2nd U14
Aisling Cassidy – 3rd U13.

Other athletes that took part were: – (U12) Ellie O’Donovan, Sarah O’Connor,
Cora Ni Ghallchoir, Erin de Burka, Fionn Harrington, Andrew O’Leary, Jack
Payne. (U13) Leah Murphy, Grainne Mulcahy, Ella Stack, Paul Hartnett.
(U14) Ciara McKeon, Aoife Buckley, Laura Nicholson, Amy Mulcahy, Claire
Reilly, Niamh Calnan, Brian Riordan, Cian Kingston, Naoise NiFlaitheartaigh.
(U15) Eva Stack and Aoibh Cassidy.
The outing proved to be very beneficial in terms of experience for all the
athletes. Congratulations to all on a job well done, keep up the hard work
and determination.

All our relay teams performed very well on the day also. Again, this was a
first competition for a number of these athletes, and each and every one of
them did their club proud. Our Under 14 girls 4x200m team, consisting of
Ciara McKeon, Moira Barrett, Laura NIcholson and Aoife Buckley, have
qualified for the All-Ireland Championships on the 6th of April. Well done to all.

Thanks to all who travelled and our supporters. We can now look forward to another great track season.

Cross Country Results

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The 2013 Aviva Irish Schools and University Cross Country Championships were held in the University of Ulster Jordanstown on Saturday last the 9th of March.
Conditions were wet and windy making it ideal cross country running. In action were some of the up and coming top runners in the country battling it out for the honours. Bandon A.C. had 3 members in action in the schools and 1 in the universities.
First up in the minor girls race was Carina Crowley Sacred Heart Clonakilty who finished in 23rd in what was her first schools All Irelands. Bethany Haigue Sacred Heart Clonakilty in the junior girls was 37th.
Honours of the day went to Fiona Everard Maria Immaculate Dunmanway who was the early leader throughout the race had a great battle to the line to take the bronze medal and a place on the Irish Schools Cross Country team that will be competing in Wales in two weeks time .
A great gutsy performance from Fiona. (AAI Preview of XC International)

In the Mens University.race at the same venue Mark O Sullivan Bandon A.C. running in the colours of C.I.T. ran the race of his life to finished in 10th place overall helping his college to a very creditable 5th place in the team event..

All-Ireland Schools XC

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Well done to Fiona Everard (MICC Dunmanway) who finished 3rd in the Junior Girls race, in All Ireland Schools XC on Saturday in Belfast.
Also running well were Bethany Haig (Clon Scared Heart) who finished 37th in the Junior Girls and Carina Crowley (Clon Scared Heart) who finished 23rd in the Minor Girls.