{"id":99,"date":"2010-03-22T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T11:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/?p=99"},"modified":"2010-06-18T11:26:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T10:26:05","slug":"pro-report-bandon-athletic-club-awards-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"PRO Report: Awards Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bandon Athletic Club held its annual Awards Night at the GAA Pavilion on \tFriday 12th March. As usual there was a large attendance, at what is one of \tthe social highlights in the club\u2019s activities, including a disco for the \tyounger members following the formalities.
\n Awards are presented to athletes who receive the highest scoring on their \tresults in Track and Field and Cross Country during the season. Receiving \tawards in track and field this year was Ella Stack in the U9 section. Katie \tBernard took the U11 award with Erin Kingston being awarded at U13 level. \tColin Kingston deservedly received the U15 award after a superb season \tcompeting in shot, discus and pentathlon. Among his other achievements \tduring the year, Colin won the U14 shot and hammer at the Munster Juvenile \tChampionships in June, breaking both the existing shot and hammer record on \tthat occasion. More recently, at the Munster Juvenile Indoors in Nenagh, he \thad a championship best throw in the boys U15 shot, with an outstanding \tthrow of 14.72m.
\nAt U19 level another multi talented athlete, Eric Stam took the award with \tan extensive list of achievements at National and International level during \tthe season. Eric holds national titles for hurdles, pentathlon, Munster \ttitles in high jump and javelin. He won a silver medal at the International \tMeeting of Combined Events in the Netherlands in August with personal best \tperformances in the 100m sprint, shot, high jump and 100m hurdles.
\nInternational athlete Joan Healy won the overall Track and Field award. Joan \tcontinues to impress nationally and internationally, winning a bronze medal \tas part of the Irish team at the European Youth Olympics in Finland last \tsummer. Liz Coomey was awarded in the overall Masters category.
\nIn Cross Country, Gr\u00e1inne Mulcahy received the U9 award. At U11, it was \tConor Calnan with Gerard Crowley taking the U13 award. Past winner, Aisling \tEverard took the U15 Award. Mark O\u2019Sullivan was awarded at U19 level. Among \this achievements during the year, Mark won the All Ireland B Country \tChampionships in Roscommon recently. Carmel Crowley won the Overall Cross \tCountry award. Amongst her County, Munster and All Ireland accolades, Carmel \twas place 11th overall at the recent British and Irish Cross Country \tInternational in Birmingham. She was also part of the Irish silver medal \twinning team.
\nAnne Kelly Crowley won the club person of the year award for her long time \tcommitment to the club and unstinting dedication to coaching the younger \tjuvenile athletes. The Presidents Award introduced for the first time last \tyear by Club President Billy Good, was presented to Ailish Crowley. This \taward is honour a juvenile club member who typifies what the club stands \tfor, and is a role model for younger athletes, as well as being a dedicated \tcompetitor. The Hall of Fame award went this year to Richard O\u2019Flynn. \tRichard, from Courtmacsherry, competed internationally at Junior and Senior \tlevel during his career. He won the Irish Junior Cross Country Championships \tin 1981 and was selected for the All Ireland Junior team to compete in the \tWorld Junior Cross Country Championships. He went on an athletics \tscholarship to Providence College in the USA and competed on a number of \toccasions at the Senior World Cross Country Championships.
\nAll of the club members aged 10 and under were presented with Little \tAthletics certificates for completing a number of tasks in the Agility \tChallenge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bandon Athletic Club held its annual Awards Night at the GAA Pavilion on Friday 12th March. As usual there was a large attendance, at what is one of the social highlights in the club\u2019s activities, including a disco for the younger members following the formalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bandonac.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}