Photo Credit: Daniel Kowalczyk

As usual the Athenry AC Juvenile section organised a fun run for those not yet old enough to take on the challenge of 10km on the roads around Athenry. This is always one of the most enjoyable parts of the day for organisers, spectators and, hopefully, the participants themselves.

Whilst this is not a competitive event the following is a list of finishers. Congratulations to all the children who took part and in particular to Alanna Lally who was first home.

Hope everyone had a good New Year and welcome back to the 9+ ages we hope to see you tonight in the vocational school Gym 7 to 8.30.

The County Indoor Athletics has been cancelled due to the weather conditions. Keep up the training.Our mini athletes are back on Monday the 11th at 7.00 in the Vocational gym with the senior athletes straight after at 8.00. Please keep an eye on the website and we will update you with any changes as they occur.

Welcome back to all our athletes we hope to see those eligible for competing in Nenagh Indoors in the Vocational School Gym tonight for 7.00 sharp. Please bring back your membership and entry forms with you for competition. Last chance..

Sorry Kids the Fun Run has been called off for today, as soon as we have new date we will inform you keep an eye on the website. Merry Christmas.

Juvenile AGM rescheduled for Thursday 3rd December at 8.30pm in the New Park Hotel.

Everybody is welcome to attend.

Little Athletics is back next Monday night October 5 in Vocational Gym from 7.15 to 8.15. This caters for all children aged between six and nine. This is a fun programme which introduces children to Athletics helping to develop their agility balance and coordination. Please make sure that children wear appropiate clothing ie tracksuit and trainers.

Athenry juvenile athletic club had a very successful day in the first of the three days of Connacht track and field finals last weekend in Athlone. It was the turn of the under 9, 10, 11s, in this age group athletes have to compete in pairs, the best 3 pairs in each event at county level qualified for the Connacht finals.
Fifteen pairs from Athenry qualified for the finals, ten of the fifteen won provincial medals, 4 Gold, 4 Silver and 2 Bronze and Athenry also won 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze medal from the six relay competitions.

There will no juvenile training on the 29th of May at the soccer pitch due to the heavily planned athletic weekend ahead. Training will resume as normal next week.

We would like to wish good luck to all our competitors taking part in the schools athletics in Tullamore and also all those competing in the County Community Games in Ballinderreen. Hope ye all do well and don't forget the suncream!!!

The Athenry Community Games is not having much luck at the moment, weather wise but it has been rescheduled for Saturday the 9th of May at 11.30 sharp, hope to see ye all there. Keep your fingers crossed I will.

Athenry Community Games has been rescheduled to Bank Holiday Monday the 4th of May we are hoping for a fine day again and a good attendance, we regrete any inconvience caused with the previous cancellation. The event is kicking off at 1.30 sharp.in Raheen Pitch and we would like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors for the event The Credit Union, Athenry for all their assistance and help in this event. Much Appreciated. We will be on hand to take a few snapshots on the day keep smiling!!!

The All Ireland Juvenile finals were held over two weekends the first weekend was in the usual venue at Nenagh. Athenry had a number of athletes competing , pride of place goes to Jack Fitzpatrick who won a bronze medal in the under 12 600m, Maria Cooney just missed out on a medal in 4th position in the 60m hurdles as did Emma Grady who was 4th in under 14 shot putt. Others to compete in Nenagh were Eilis Hynes and Joey Quinn in the Shop Putt and Sinead Tuohy in the hurdles.

The Connacht indoor juvenile athletic finals were held in Nenagh recently, 42 athletes from Athenry competed in these finals where they won 7 Gold, 6 Silver and 8 Bronze medals in the individual events and 1Gold and 1 Bronze medal in the relays.
The following were the individual medal winners;
The Gold medal winners were Eilis Hynes U13 Shot Putt, Stephen Coleman U13 Shot Putt, Hannah Kindregan U16 Shot Putt, Maria Cooney in the U 15 60m Hurdles and the U15 Long Jump, Orlaith McGrath in the U15 60m and Sorcha Murphy in the U17 High Jump.

There have been some fine road races for us all to enjoy in recent weeks around Galway and for once the weather hasn't been too bad at all. Fond memories of the Maree 8k are still fresh in our minds and the Craughwell Fit for Life 5k and last Saturday's Kilconieron 5 Mile race were great days out.

The Community Games Art and Model making county Finals take place this year on the 21st March in the new venue of Holy Rosary College Mountbellew. It will commence at 11 am sharp. It is indeed great to see both competitions back in the same venue as last year they had to be hosted in different venues due to the large number competing in the art competition. This New venue is well equipped to hold both competitions and we are very grateful to the college for its help in arranging this.