St Abban’s athletes outstanding in their own field
Aoibheann, Ger, Grace and Katie who competed in the IUAA Track and Field Championships
A NUMBER of St Abban’s athletes were in action on Friday and Saturday representing their colleges in the Irish University Athletics Association Track and Field Championships.
Field events were the order of the day with our athletes competing across Long and Triple Jump, Pole Vault, Hammer and Weight For Distance.
In the Women’s Long jump, the Fitzgerald sisters Lucy and Grace competed strongly. Lucy representing UCC jumped 5.04m while Grace in the UCD colours jumped 4.35m. Lucy returned in the Triple Jump where her leap of 11.21m saw her claim a bronze medal for UCC.
Katie Baldwin representing DCU finished just outside the medals in 10.27m which was good enough for fifth place. In the Women’s Pole Vault, Aoibheann McDonald won a silver medal with a vault of 2.85m in the UCD colours. Ger Kelly was in great throwing form in the Hammer. His best throw of 43.90m was a new PB saw him finish in fifth place.
In the Men’s Weight for Distance the SETU athlete went one place better with a throw of 7.56m which saw him finish in fourth place. Well done to all of these athletes and their coaches who hope for a long successful summer of track and field action.
50th Student Games St Abban’s AC will host the 50th Annual Student Games on Good Friday 18 April at 5pm. The school’s competition has been running for 50 years now and provides student with the opportunity to represent their schools across a range of sprints, long distance, throws or jumps events.
Traditionally Killeshin had dominated the competition but with a re-organisation of the teams in recent years the title has moved around more regularly. Athletes can compete from U.7 all the way up to U.15 so athletes born in 2019 all the way back to 2011. We look forward to seeing a big crowd to celebrate the 50th Student Games in Monavea on Friday evening 18th April.
Ferrybank Open Sports Well done to all of the athletes who competed in the Ferrybank Open Sports on Sunday last where the club were crowned best overall club on the day. Each athlete contributes to overall club points throughout the days events. The juvenile athletes were delighted to be crowned overall winners.
We look forward to welcoming some of these clubs back to ST Abban’s Open Sports on Bank Holiday Monday.
