A big well done to Aoife Moran, Luca O’Connor, Isabella O’Connor, Roan Kavanagh and Sam Dowling who all competed at the Wexford B Championships and brought home a number of medals.
On Thursday evening, thanks to great help from the parents of the juvenile athletes, USAC hosted the annual four club track & field event, at the New Ross town park track. Open to juvenile athletes from Waterford AC, St Joseph’s AC, St Senan’s AC and USAC, the clubs compete in… Continue reading
The Striders Juveniles sent their largest ever squad to Tullamore, this weekend and had a great time of it and plenty of success also. Thanks in no small part to the Hewlett brothers, this years medal count was very impressive. Saturday morning started with a bang for the Striders with… Continue reading
An historic evening for USAC, with Alan O’Connor becoming our latest county champion, in 2018, and the Striders men’s team winning the Wexford Masters Road Race Championships, at Ferns, with a perfect team score of 10 points. Led home by Alan (20.25 mins), the Striders filled the top four places… Continue reading
John McGrath and Aine Cullen were competing at the Leinster Masters, Track & Field Championships in Tullamore today. John won Gold in the 1500m event, a clear win, 16 seconds ahead of the chasing pack, and Silver in the 800m. Aine had an extremely profitable day, winning Gold in discus,… Continue reading
The USAC Juveniles had another very successful outing at day 2 of the Wexford Track & Field Championships. With over sixty athletes in action, there were so many great performances to be proud of. Some standout achievements include, in the Under 9 category, Fionn McEochaidh’s Javelin winning throw and TJ… Continue reading
Striders legend, Gavin Kelly, proved yet again what an accomplished all round athlete he is, by taking second place at the National Masters Multi Event Championship. Previously Gavin has won national and provincial medals in sprinting and jumping events. Therefore with plenty of practice at the throwing events and some… Continue reading
On Sunday, the USAC juvenile sprinters were in action, in the Leinster Juvenile Relay Championships, at Enniscorthy. The under age boys had two teams competing and both performed really well, with the U15’s winning silver and the U17’s winning bronze. The girls fielded three teams, from U17 up to Junior… Continue reading
Another Leinster medal for Aine Cullen, in the Masters O40 Pentathlon yesterday in Scanlon Park, Kilkenny. Over five events – 80m Hurdles, Long jump, High jump, Shot Put and 800m – Aine performed consistently to scoop a provincial bronze medal. Well done again Aine.
This morning‘s 11am Juvenile training session (Saturday Sept 22nd), has been cancelled due to bad weather. Hope to see all on Wednesday!
Results from the weekend still rolling in - huge congrats to Anastasia Cash on her category place in the Olympic Triathlon distance in Dungarvan at the weekend. Keep up the great work Anastasia, we're very impressed
Great 10 miles tonight.. the best company and so good to see all our marathon Striders in such good form ... bring it on now Striders.. we have this 🏆🥇
Well done to all the Juvenile and Senior Striders who participated in Taghmon’s excellent cross country event. Despite the overnight rain, the surface was sound and the course was quite testing, featuring lots of uphill sections. Juvenile training has only resumed recently, but the young Striders were in great form, in this first cross country event of the season. TJ Murphy got us off to a flying start, winning his event, over 300m. Conall Delaney, Sam Dowling, Fionn MacEochaidh, Maitiu Wall, Isabella O’Connor and Cormac Delaney were all exceptional and deservedly won medals. With the distances getting longer, Ava Kehoe, running in her first cross country race and one year out of age, put in a very impressive run, over 1km, to finish in the top half of the field. Olan Delaney, over the same distance ran well to finish in a medal position. Over 1.5km, Tommasso Hickey and Luca O’Connor finished second and third respectively. After an incredible summer, winning county, provincial and national medals at race walking, Isabel Bawden put in a very fine effort and also finished in the medals. At U16 ‘s there were fine performances from Ben and Robert Wall, Adam O’Connor and Oisin MacEochaidh. In the Junior events, Ryan Kielthy and Rebecca Bawden finished first and second in their events. In the Masters events, Beth O’Connor and George Delaney won their respective races, with George closely followed by a strong Striders contingent including Alan O’Connor, Pat O’Callaghan, Fabian Flood, Martin Kehoe, and Emmett Malone. Aedan Rogers posted the performance of the day, winning the Men's Senior event in real style. At the end of a great day of competitive racing, courtesy of the host club, Taghmon AC, the Striders finished second behind an excellent DMP squad, in the best club shield competition. Well done to all who competed and cheered on today.
