An exciting day yesterday for the Striders Masters as they headed to the new National Sports Campus for the Leinster Indoors Masters. A great turnout of 8 Striders, with 4 of these making it their first venture Indoors. Some tough competitions on the day with close finishes. These guys and girls get faster as they get older!!!
Delighted to see medals making their way back to New Ross last night.
Mick O’Gorman – Silver High Jump and Silver Long Jump
Sonya Byrne – Silver 800m
Aine Cullen – Silver High Jump and Silver Shot Putt
Gavin Kelly – Silver 200m and Bronze 400m
Ted Flannelly – Silver 3,000m
John McGrath – Bronze 800m Continue reading
The Juvenile Striders were in action at the new National Indoor Arena at Abbotstown on Sunday. We had multiple relay teams and a number of individual athletes performing in their track and field events. The girls were outstanding in their field events, with Aoife Muldoon winning Gold in the Triple Jump and Ciara Kelly winning Silver in her High Jump. Both girls were a shade off their PB’s, but this was a great start to the season for both. Aedan Rogers looked very strong in finishing 4th place in his 1500M event, which qualifies for the National Indoor Championships. 
Well done to our U17 Girls team of Alannah, Becca, Grace and Grainne who along with Máiread and Sonia from Adamstown, won the County Bronze medal at the the National B Cross Country Championship today at the WIT Arena in Waterford. These girls have all trained hard this year and a National bronze medal is no more than they deserve.
The Juvenile Striders were on top form in Athlone, putting in some great performances, many PB’s and a handful of medals, for good measure. The U14 boys nearly brought the roof off the stadium, with all three, Aidan Shannon, Darragh Flannelly and Owen Lennon, qualifying for the final. In a thriller of a race Aidan set a blistering pace early on, with Owen and Darragh motoring along in behind. Making it a Wexford one-two, Aidan crossed the line ahead of Conor Doyle, in a very exciting finish. Darragh and Owen were just outside the medals and ran PB’s in a super race for the Striders and Wexford. Building on her excellent performances last summer, Eve Byrne continues to improve and won a brilliant Silver in the 1Km walking event. 
Well they went and did it again! With the combination of the amazing trio of John McGrath, Alan O’Connor and Ted Flannelly making a huge team effort together to the front of the pack, along with Pat O’Callaghan also battling away they brought home the Gold Masters County Team medal! Huge efforts also from John Kent, Emmett Malone and Gavin Kelly.
