Athletic Club brings home more silverware
On Easter Monday athletes representing Carrick-on-Suir AC made the short trip to Kilmacow where they joined clubs from all over the country for St. Senan’s AC Open Day. Basking in glorious sunshine our future stars of track and field had a very productive day and came back from the South Kilkenny venue with a nice haul of medals.
Tristan O’Keeffe ran a brilliant 300 metres in the under 11 category to bring home a bronze with Elisa Frisby achieving the same in the 1km under 13 girls walk.
In the under 15 girls 100 metre sprint Sarah Bartley also picked up a bronze and the same athlete was just beaten into second place in the girls under 16 long jump.
Three of the travelling athletes came through their qualifiers and reached the finals of their sprint events with Benny Power in the under 9 boys, Lauren Peters in the girls under 10 and John Walsh completing the trio of finalists in the boys under 12.
The open events like the one hosted by St. Senan’s AC are a fantastic way of warming up for the upcoming track and field season and gives all the athletes a good indicator of where they are in terms of fitness and where they may need a bit of tweaking with their training or preparation.
The season proper begins with the Tipperary County Championships in a couple of weeks’ time on May the 10th and 11th in Templemore.
The athleticism and skill by our young track and field stars, along with their coaches and trainers’ professionalism and knowledge will most certainly mean that the town will have plenty of county champions returning to the area after the meet.
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