Apr '16 Newsletter
Newsletter – April 2016 Training Information Monday Night Training for all groups now will commence at 6pm to 7pm, meeting beside the carpark at Boyne Community School hall. For the older group (John Rowe's group), training will commence at 6:40pm at Scoil Mhuire for conditioning training for one hour. Track training in Claremont Stadium on Wednesdays, from 7.00 to 8.30. Parents - Please collect your child (the younger groups) after training from the playing field beside Boyne Community School carpark at 7pm sharp. No child will be allowed to leave without an adult. For the older groups - juveniles are to remain at the carpark for pickup unless agreed with parent that they can walk home. Don't forget your €2 sub. Please ensure you wear proper runners and suitable clothing to training and bring a bottle of water to drink. No jeans or spikes to be worn. Please note, each child has to advise the children’s officer/treasurer on the Monday night of their attendance so it can be recorded on the Juvenile attendance report.
Training Roster Given the high number of juveniles in the Athletic Club (currently over 150), all parents with a registered child will be placed on a roster to help the coaches for 1 hour on a Monday. The idea is that parents would take it in turns to provide assistance to the coaches. Ideally we would like to keep it to once a month or less for each parent - the more parents that help out, the less often people will be required to help. It is only supervision, training is not required. The club is run on a volunteer basis so we need to support our children in getting the best training.
Junior Braveheart Keep the date in your diary – Friday June 10th @ 6pm We will have our annual Braveheart race in the Porchfields and as per last year we will have three Juvenile races for the various age groups. Please ensure that all our athletes take part. It is a great evening and the atmosphere is electric. All those that take part in these races will receive a medal plus there will be prizes for the first 3 boys and girls in each race. More information to follow…..
Competitions, Races and Results Dunboyne 4 mile and Juvenile Races – Sunday 29th April 2016 Congratulations to Michael Hegarty who took part in the Dunboyne 4 mile race. He ran a great race along with our adult members with a fantastic time of 32:31. Well done to Jack O’Donnell who performed brilliantly at the Juvenile Boys race of 800 metres and also Holly O’Donnell and Aoife Hegarty running the Girls race 600 metres.
Primary Schools Cross Country – Fairyhouse, Rathoath – Tuesday 12th April 2016 A big congratulations to all our juveniles who took part in their Schools Cross Country, which took place in Fairyhouse on Tuesday 12th April. Some amazing results in such wet, muddy, slippy conditions plus many of our athletes scored Personal bests at this event so a BIG WELL DONE. 1st and 2nd class Boys 3rd and 4th class boys 4th class boys 6th class boys
- Rian Liggan 11th in his group of 1st/2nd class boys - Cormac Liggin 5th in his group out of 120 boys - Adam came 7th in his group out of 100+ kids - Jack O’Donnell (24th place), Patrick Brophy (34th place), Eamonn Yeates, Andrew Brady and Donal McGale
3rd class girls 4th class girls 5th class girls
- Sara Harten, Emer Linsley, Millie Carty, Holly O’Donnell, - Sarah Caulfied 1st place Gold medal and also Bronze team medal for St Marys school - Nicole Molloy Kilbride school , Grace Vaughan and Emma Gibney - Silver team medal for St. Marys school - Leighann Massey 2nd place Silver, Niamh McMorrow 12th place, Ava Costello. The girls also won Silver team medal for St Marys school.
6th class girls
A special mention also goes out to our athletes in Boardsmill Primary school who had qualified to participate: Timothy Halton, Eric Halton, Peadar Cotter, Catherine Egan and Luke Gallagher
Meath Secondary Schools Track and Field Championships – 8th April 2016 – Claremont Stadium, Navan Well done to our juveniles who took part in the Seconday schools T&F championship in Claremont Stadium, Navan. All the training and hard work has certainly paid off. Congratulations Girls U14 Esha Hughes – Long Jump 2nd place, 500m 2nd place
Girls U15 Olivia Gonsalves – Long Jump 2nd place, 100m 2nd place Aoife Swords – 800m and Shot Putt Aimee Molloy – 100m Oliva and Aoife came 2nd for their school Scoil Mhuire relay team
Girls U17 Niamh Fahey – High Jump 2nd place, Long jump 3rd place Caoimhe Rowe – Long Jump 1st place Hannah Gilligan – 1500m 1st place, 800m 2nd place
Boys U17 John Halton – 1500m 4th place Gearoid McGee – 800m
West Leinster T&F Championships, Santry Stadium, 19th April 2016 Well done to Lillian Brady who competed in the West Leinster Track & Field Championship in the Junior Girls 1500m.
Secondary Schools Track and Field Season Day 1 – 20th April 2016 – Morton Stadium, Santry What a great achievement for the below girls who competed for the first time for the Seconday schools T&F events in Morton Stadium Santry. They all ran extremely well and even with the nerves flying high, some were just pipped at the post in the hopes to compete in the Leinsters. Well done to Leah Mahon , Aine Newman, Petra Harten, Jennifer Nugent, Zoe McEvoy and Niamh Monahan. Congratulations to Zoe McEvoy and Jennifer Nugent for competing in the High jump. With 15 in total competing, both girls did extremely well and down to the last 4, with Jennifer coming in 4th with a very close 3rd and only down to the amount of falls and Zoe coming in 2nd place with a new PB of 1.35.
Congratulations to our senior juveniles who also competed in Morton Stadium for their Secondary Schools Track & Field Competition. Great achievements by everyone.
Minor Girls Esha Hughes – Long Jump 2nd place, 80m
Junior Girls Olivia Gonsalves – Long Jump 5th place Olivia Gonsalves – 200m 2nd in heat and 5th in semi-final Aoife Swords – 800m, Discus and Shot Putt
Inter Girls Niamh Fahey – High Jump 4th place, 100m Caoimhe Rowe – Discus 4th place , 300m Hurdles 5th place Hannah Gilligan – 1500m 2nd place
Senior Girls Alannah Gonsalves – Long jump 1st place
Inter Boys John Halton – 1500m and 800m Gearoid McGee – 800m and Discus
Cushinstown Open track and Field Sports Day – Sunday 17th April 2016. This was a great opportunity for our juveniles to take part in a Track and Field event Open day to build upon their experience. Juliann Harte Petra Harten Niamh Monahan Sara Harten Zoe McEvoy Jennifer Nugent gold
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New Personal Best for Shot Putt and Javelin New Personal Best for High Jump New Personal Best for High Jump 80M sprint, Long jump and Turbo Javelin Silver medal for 300m and very close bronze for her 100m Bronze medal for 100m, silver medal for 300m and she competed in a relay and won
Community Games Cross Country - Sunday 28th February This year’s Cross Country community games were held at St Brigids GFS and Athletic club grounds, Ballinacree. Last month we mentioned some of our athletes that took part but had omitted Holly O’Donnell who also participated on that day. Well done Holly, it’s great to see our juveniles take part in these events.
PARENTS - please let us know if any of your children participate in any running/athletics events so we can be sure to include their achievements in our newsletters.
Upcoming Events for Track and Field Season 2016 Meath League Track and Field League, Claremont Stadium, Navan Wednesday 27th April
Meath Track and Field League Day 2 Claremont, Navan
We would love to see all our juveniles attend these events in Claremont. Trim AC ranked high in 2015 coming 5th overall out of 15 clubs in Meath and 2nd in Division B. We were only 2 points off 1st place in Division B and 28 points for 3rd place in Division A. We want to make a big push for 2016. This is a great league for all our juveniles to participate in. Events ranging from sprints, ball throw, turbo javelin, high jump and long jump. It is a great opportunity to gain experience in competing in a fun and friendly atmosphere. C'mon Trim we can do it !!!!!
Boys & Girls
· ·
Born
U9
250m
Long Jump
2008
U10
300m
Ball Throw
2007
U11
300m
Ball Throw
2006
U12
300m
High Jump
2005
U13
600m
Shot
2004
U14
800m
Long Jump
2003
U15
800m
Shot
2002
U16
1500m
Discus
2001
Wednesday 25th May Meath Track and Field League Day 3 Claremont, Navan Wednesday 15th June Meath Track and Field League Day 4 Claremont, Navan
Secondary Schools Track and Field Season
Tuesday Thursday Wednesday Friday Saturday
19th 21st 11th 14th 4th
April West Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships Day 1 April West Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships Day 2 May Leinster Schools Athletics Track and Field Championships Day 1 May Leinster Schools Athletics Track and Field Championships Day 2 June All Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships
Meath Track and Field Championships
Wednesday 4thMay U9, U10 & U11 Track and Field Championships 7-9.30 Saturday 7th May U12-U18 Track and Field Championships 9am-3pm, Navan Sunday 8th May U12-U18 Track and Field Championships 9am-3pm, Navan Wednesday 18th May Meath Track Relays, Navan 7.00-9.30pm
Leinster Track and Field Championships
21st May Leinster Combined Events 22nd May Leinster Junior Championships & Relays 6th June Leinster Team Event 11th June Leinster Pairs & U12 and U13 Championships
18th June Leinster U14-U19 Championships 19th June Leinster U14-U19 Championships
All Ireland Track and Field Events
28th May National Combined Events Junior & Youth 2nd July National Combined Events U14 & U16. 3rd July National Junior and U23 Track and Field Championships 9th July National Juvenile B Track and Field Championships 10th July National Juvenile Track and Field Championships Day1 23rd July National Juvenile Track and Field Championships Day 2 24th July National Juvenile Track and Field Championships Day 3
Top class Coaching Network launched Athletics Ireland launched the first Sprints, Hurdles and Jumps coaching conference on Saturday 16th April at Athlone IT. In attendance from Trim AC were Pat Comey, John Rowe, Mary Gonsalves and Ciaran Tobin. They all found this course format to be a refreshing change with the emphasis on participation and interaction. The conference included a mixture of theory and practical sessions. The main focus of the workshops and talks was on developing and improving on the technical aspects of sprinting, hurdling, long jumping and high jumping. Top coaches nowadays recognise they are on a continuous journey of learning. This coaching network will hopefully be the first of many learning opportunities of this nature. Allowing our club coaches to develop, and also to network with other coaches and help build a better support structure for their own training group. AAI director of development Pat Ryan used some Irelands best ever long and high jumpers, Ciaran McDonagh and Deirdre Ryan for plyo work and drills with Tom Crick and Richard Wheater for sprints and hurdles.
Other Items 2016 Age Groups for participating in competitions
Parents Code of Conduct
Athletics should be safe, fun and conducted in a spirit of fair play Encourage your child to learn the rules and play within them. Discourage unfair play and arguing with officials. Help your child to recognise good performance, not just results. Never force your child to take part in sport. Set a good example by recognising fair play and applauding good performances of all. Never punish or belittle a child for losing or making mistakes. Publicly accept officials' judgments. Support your child's involvement and help them to enjoy their sport. Use correct and proper language at all times. Encourage and guide performers to accept responsibility for their own performance and behaviour.
Wanted - Old Phones We want to collect as many old mobile phones as possible to obtain a defibrillator for the club. It is part of the Fones4Life programme - see website www.fones4life.ie for more information. Any old phones can be handed in on club nights. We need to collect 300 old mobile phones in exchange for a lifesaving defibrillator, so if you have any old phones lying around, please donate them for this cause.
Club Gear If anyone is looking to buy singlets for races or the Trim AC running gear, please contact Enda Markey on 086-2777419 or email him at [email protected]. Childrens’ Officers Don Mahon: Paula Hegarty: Cathy Shelly: Aidan Flynn:
086-2650285 087-2502677 086-3222968 086-8162573
For all information, please visit our website at: www.trimac.ie/juvenile or Facebook at: www.facebook.com/trimathleticclub
Training Roster Given the high number of juveniles in the Athletic Club (currently over 150), all parents with a registered child will be placed on a roster to help the coaches for 1 hour on a Monday. The idea is that parents would take it in turns to provide assistance to the coaches. Ideally we would like to keep it to once a month or less for each parent - the more parents that help out, the less often people will be required to help. It is only supervision, training is not required. The club is run on a volunteer basis so we need to support our children in getting the best training.
Junior Braveheart Keep the date in your diary – Friday June 10th @ 6pm We will have our annual Braveheart race in the Porchfields and as per last year we will have three Juvenile races for the various age groups. Please ensure that all our athletes take part. It is a great evening and the atmosphere is electric. All those that take part in these races will receive a medal plus there will be prizes for the first 3 boys and girls in each race. More information to follow…..
Competitions, Races and Results Dunboyne 4 mile and Juvenile Races – Sunday 29th April 2016 Congratulations to Michael Hegarty who took part in the Dunboyne 4 mile race. He ran a great race along with our adult members with a fantastic time of 32:31. Well done to Jack O’Donnell who performed brilliantly at the Juvenile Boys race of 800 metres and also Holly O’Donnell and Aoife Hegarty running the Girls race 600 metres.
Primary Schools Cross Country – Fairyhouse, Rathoath – Tuesday 12th April 2016 A big congratulations to all our juveniles who took part in their Schools Cross Country, which took place in Fairyhouse on Tuesday 12th April. Some amazing results in such wet, muddy, slippy conditions plus many of our athletes scored Personal bests at this event so a BIG WELL DONE. 1st and 2nd class Boys 3rd and 4th class boys 4th class boys 6th class boys
- Rian Liggan 11th in his group of 1st/2nd class boys - Cormac Liggin 5th in his group out of 120 boys - Adam came 7th in his group out of 100+ kids - Jack O’Donnell (24th place), Patrick Brophy (34th place), Eamonn Yeates, Andrew Brady and Donal McGale
3rd class girls 4th class girls 5th class girls
- Sara Harten, Emer Linsley, Millie Carty, Holly O’Donnell, - Sarah Caulfied 1st place Gold medal and also Bronze team medal for St Marys school - Nicole Molloy Kilbride school , Grace Vaughan and Emma Gibney - Silver team medal for St. Marys school - Leighann Massey 2nd place Silver, Niamh McMorrow 12th place, Ava Costello. The girls also won Silver team medal for St Marys school.
6th class girls
A special mention also goes out to our athletes in Boardsmill Primary school who had qualified to participate: Timothy Halton, Eric Halton, Peadar Cotter, Catherine Egan and Luke Gallagher
Meath Secondary Schools Track and Field Championships – 8th April 2016 – Claremont Stadium, Navan Well done to our juveniles who took part in the Seconday schools T&F championship in Claremont Stadium, Navan. All the training and hard work has certainly paid off. Congratulations Girls U14 Esha Hughes – Long Jump 2nd place, 500m 2nd place
Girls U15 Olivia Gonsalves – Long Jump 2nd place, 100m 2nd place Aoife Swords – 800m and Shot Putt Aimee Molloy – 100m Oliva and Aoife came 2nd for their school Scoil Mhuire relay team
Girls U17 Niamh Fahey – High Jump 2nd place, Long jump 3rd place Caoimhe Rowe – Long Jump 1st place Hannah Gilligan – 1500m 1st place, 800m 2nd place
Boys U17 John Halton – 1500m 4th place Gearoid McGee – 800m
West Leinster T&F Championships, Santry Stadium, 19th April 2016 Well done to Lillian Brady who competed in the West Leinster Track & Field Championship in the Junior Girls 1500m.
Secondary Schools Track and Field Season Day 1 – 20th April 2016 – Morton Stadium, Santry What a great achievement for the below girls who competed for the first time for the Seconday schools T&F events in Morton Stadium Santry. They all ran extremely well and even with the nerves flying high, some were just pipped at the post in the hopes to compete in the Leinsters. Well done to Leah Mahon , Aine Newman, Petra Harten, Jennifer Nugent, Zoe McEvoy and Niamh Monahan. Congratulations to Zoe McEvoy and Jennifer Nugent for competing in the High jump. With 15 in total competing, both girls did extremely well and down to the last 4, with Jennifer coming in 4th with a very close 3rd and only down to the amount of falls and Zoe coming in 2nd place with a new PB of 1.35.
Congratulations to our senior juveniles who also competed in Morton Stadium for their Secondary Schools Track & Field Competition. Great achievements by everyone.
Minor Girls Esha Hughes – Long Jump 2nd place, 80m
Junior Girls Olivia Gonsalves – Long Jump 5th place Olivia Gonsalves – 200m 2nd in heat and 5th in semi-final Aoife Swords – 800m, Discus and Shot Putt
Inter Girls Niamh Fahey – High Jump 4th place, 100m Caoimhe Rowe – Discus 4th place , 300m Hurdles 5th place Hannah Gilligan – 1500m 2nd place
Senior Girls Alannah Gonsalves – Long jump 1st place
Inter Boys John Halton – 1500m and 800m Gearoid McGee – 800m and Discus
Cushinstown Open track and Field Sports Day – Sunday 17th April 2016. This was a great opportunity for our juveniles to take part in a Track and Field event Open day to build upon their experience. Juliann Harte Petra Harten Niamh Monahan Sara Harten Zoe McEvoy Jennifer Nugent gold
-
New Personal Best for Shot Putt and Javelin New Personal Best for High Jump New Personal Best for High Jump 80M sprint, Long jump and Turbo Javelin Silver medal for 300m and very close bronze for her 100m Bronze medal for 100m, silver medal for 300m and she competed in a relay and won
Community Games Cross Country - Sunday 28th February This year’s Cross Country community games were held at St Brigids GFS and Athletic club grounds, Ballinacree. Last month we mentioned some of our athletes that took part but had omitted Holly O’Donnell who also participated on that day. Well done Holly, it’s great to see our juveniles take part in these events.
PARENTS - please let us know if any of your children participate in any running/athletics events so we can be sure to include their achievements in our newsletters.
Upcoming Events for Track and Field Season 2016 Meath League Track and Field League, Claremont Stadium, Navan Wednesday 27th April
Meath Track and Field League Day 2 Claremont, Navan
We would love to see all our juveniles attend these events in Claremont. Trim AC ranked high in 2015 coming 5th overall out of 15 clubs in Meath and 2nd in Division B. We were only 2 points off 1st place in Division B and 28 points for 3rd place in Division A. We want to make a big push for 2016. This is a great league for all our juveniles to participate in. Events ranging from sprints, ball throw, turbo javelin, high jump and long jump. It is a great opportunity to gain experience in competing in a fun and friendly atmosphere. C'mon Trim we can do it !!!!!
Boys & Girls
· ·
Born
U9
250m
Long Jump
2008
U10
300m
Ball Throw
2007
U11
300m
Ball Throw
2006
U12
300m
High Jump
2005
U13
600m
Shot
2004
U14
800m
Long Jump
2003
U15
800m
Shot
2002
U16
1500m
Discus
2001
Wednesday 25th May Meath Track and Field League Day 3 Claremont, Navan Wednesday 15th June Meath Track and Field League Day 4 Claremont, Navan
Secondary Schools Track and Field Season
Tuesday Thursday Wednesday Friday Saturday
19th 21st 11th 14th 4th
April West Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships Day 1 April West Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships Day 2 May Leinster Schools Athletics Track and Field Championships Day 1 May Leinster Schools Athletics Track and Field Championships Day 2 June All Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships
Meath Track and Field Championships
Wednesday 4thMay U9, U10 & U11 Track and Field Championships 7-9.30 Saturday 7th May U12-U18 Track and Field Championships 9am-3pm, Navan Sunday 8th May U12-U18 Track and Field Championships 9am-3pm, Navan Wednesday 18th May Meath Track Relays, Navan 7.00-9.30pm
Leinster Track and Field Championships
21st May Leinster Combined Events 22nd May Leinster Junior Championships & Relays 6th June Leinster Team Event 11th June Leinster Pairs & U12 and U13 Championships
18th June Leinster U14-U19 Championships 19th June Leinster U14-U19 Championships
All Ireland Track and Field Events
28th May National Combined Events Junior & Youth 2nd July National Combined Events U14 & U16. 3rd July National Junior and U23 Track and Field Championships 9th July National Juvenile B Track and Field Championships 10th July National Juvenile Track and Field Championships Day1 23rd July National Juvenile Track and Field Championships Day 2 24th July National Juvenile Track and Field Championships Day 3
Top class Coaching Network launched Athletics Ireland launched the first Sprints, Hurdles and Jumps coaching conference on Saturday 16th April at Athlone IT. In attendance from Trim AC were Pat Comey, John Rowe, Mary Gonsalves and Ciaran Tobin. They all found this course format to be a refreshing change with the emphasis on participation and interaction. The conference included a mixture of theory and practical sessions. The main focus of the workshops and talks was on developing and improving on the technical aspects of sprinting, hurdling, long jumping and high jumping. Top coaches nowadays recognise they are on a continuous journey of learning. This coaching network will hopefully be the first of many learning opportunities of this nature. Allowing our club coaches to develop, and also to network with other coaches and help build a better support structure for their own training group. AAI director of development Pat Ryan used some Irelands best ever long and high jumpers, Ciaran McDonagh and Deirdre Ryan for plyo work and drills with Tom Crick and Richard Wheater for sprints and hurdles.
Other Items 2016 Age Groups for participating in competitions
Parents Code of Conduct
Athletics should be safe, fun and conducted in a spirit of fair play Encourage your child to learn the rules and play within them. Discourage unfair play and arguing with officials. Help your child to recognise good performance, not just results. Never force your child to take part in sport. Set a good example by recognising fair play and applauding good performances of all. Never punish or belittle a child for losing or making mistakes. Publicly accept officials' judgments. Support your child's involvement and help them to enjoy their sport. Use correct and proper language at all times. Encourage and guide performers to accept responsibility for their own performance and behaviour.
Wanted - Old Phones We want to collect as many old mobile phones as possible to obtain a defibrillator for the club. It is part of the Fones4Life programme - see website www.fones4life.ie for more information. Any old phones can be handed in on club nights. We need to collect 300 old mobile phones in exchange for a lifesaving defibrillator, so if you have any old phones lying around, please donate them for this cause.
Club Gear If anyone is looking to buy singlets for races or the Trim AC running gear, please contact Enda Markey on 086-2777419 or email him at [email protected]. Childrens’ Officers Don Mahon: Paula Hegarty: Cathy Shelly: Aidan Flynn:
086-2650285 087-2502677 086-3222968 086-8162573
For all information, please visit our website at: www.trimac.ie/juvenile or Facebook at: www.facebook.com/trimathleticclub
