Kate Veale Heads for Moscow
On Wednesday next the Veale family head to Russia where on Saturday Kate will compete in the European trials to select a team for the World Youth Olympics. This is the first time that a World Youth Olympics is being held. In the past few years we had a European Youth Olympics and both David Mc Carthy and Thomas Houlihan competed as part of an Irish team in this event with David winning a bronze medal. This year there will be no European event instead it will be a trial for a European team. A small group of elite Irish athletes will travel to Moscow on Wednesday among them will be Kate Veale. Kate has dominated walking in both Ireland and Britain in the past two years winning British and Irish titles in both club and schools events. Next Saturday at 3pm Irish time she will move to the next level when she competes against the best in Europe in the 5000m walk in a bid to take one of the six places on the European team for the World Youth Olympics. All in West Waterford wish Kate the best of luck.
Five County Titles for Seamie Fennell and Alan Mc Mahon
Wins in the hurdles, 200m, 800m, shot and high jump for Seamie Fennell and in the hurdles, 200m, shot, high jump and triple jump for Alan Mc Mahon were the highlights of a very successful county championships for West Waterford athletes. This was the second day of the championships and the focus was on athletes from under 12 upwards. Aidan Mc Kenna was the winner of the ball throw under 12 and was also third in the hurdles while Chloe Fennell was second in the girls ball throw. Caoimhe Dwyer had a personal best jump of 3m 66 when finishing third in the under 12 long jump and she was also second in the hurdles. There was also silver for Kate Mc Grath in the under 13 hurdles. In his first outing to the track Tony Collins was third in both the high jump and shot and second in the hurdles. Shane O’ Riordan and Richard Casey were first and second in the walk. Eoin Dwyer and Thlom Reddy were second and third in the shot behind Seamie Fennell making it a clean sweep for West Waterford athletes. Tholm also won bronze in the 200m as did Sean Curran in the 800m to add to the silver he won in the hurdles
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In the under 16 events Kate Hickey had a double in the hammer and discus and Lucy O’ Brien ran a personal best to win the 800m having earlier finished second in the 200m while Aine Power finished one place behind in 3rd, for good measure Aine won a silver in the long jump. Shane Kenneally in his first outing with West Waterford won the under 16 hammer shot and high jump and finished 3rd in the triple jump. Stephen Mc Mahon won the hurdles and 200m and was second in the hammer, triple jump and shot. In the 800m Robbie Mulligan was a convincing winner.
Kate Veale rounded off her preparations for Moscow with a win in the under 17 walk ahead of club mate Aoife Kiely. In the boys events there were wins from Alex Lai in the hurdles and Martin Houlihan in the high jump. Brandon Barry and Alex Lai were second and third in the triple jump and Martin Houlihan second in the hurdles. Lughaidh O’ Mahoney was placed 2nd in the 200m under 18. In the junior women’s events Lisa Houlihan won the hurdles with Claire Collins finishing 2nd and Clare also finished 2nd in the 200m and long jump.
In the relays gold medals were won by our under 12 girls, under 14 boys and under 16 boys finishing off a very successful day for the club.
Upcoming events
Sat May 22nd Munster Schools Championships CIT 9.30am
Sun May 23rd Coursey Open Sports this was a very successful outing for the club last year and we would encourage all our athletes to travel to this event. Check notice board at training for details
Wed May 26th COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOLS FINALS 6.30
Sat June 5th All Ireland Schools Championships Tullamore 9.00 am
Sunday June 6th Munster Club Championships Boys 9-11 and girls and boys under 14&15 Castleisland 11am
Sunday June 6th Munster Club Championships Girls 9-11 and girls and boys under 14&15 Castleisland 11am
The juvenile committee extends their deepest sympathies to Ciara and the Scanlan family on the death of their grandmother.
