The Striders juveniles had a very successful time at day one of the Wexford Track & Field championships, at a sun drenched Enniscorthy, on Sunday. Cosmo Hewlett’s gold winning Javelin throw, was the pick of the field performances. Conor Murphy equaled his High Jump PB, to win silver and Eanna… Continue reading
United Striders hosted the very successful first county road race of the year, the ladies and mens novice events. Thanks to fantastic organisational efforts from Catherine Ronan, Mick O’Gorman, John Kent and others, the event proved to be very popular for both athletes and spectators. The ladies event, over 3km,… Continue reading
Unbelievable results at the Leinster Novice & Masters Road Race in Gowran. The Striders team of Alan O’Connor, John McGrath, Brendan Lyng, Joe Lillis, Paul Doran and Sean Murphy won silver in the club team event. Wexford won bronze in the county team event, with Alan, John and Brendan all… Continue reading
St Senan’s AC hosted a wonderful day of athletics at Kilmacow today and USAC were represented in big numbers as we retained the best club shield award. Well done to the Striders juvenile squad of TJ Murphy, Billy Carney, Katie Phelan, Adam Burke, Sam Dowling, Donagh Grennan, Fionn McEochaidh, Ceilim… Continue reading
Following a great Cross Country and Indoor season, the Striders made the best possible start to the Track & Field season, winning the Best Club shield at the ultra competitive event hosted by Ferrybank AC. With all age groups represented from the juvenile U8’s up to our juniors and also… Continue reading
The Striders kicked off a great weekend of action, bringing four teams to the national relay championships. With teams having to qualify via their provincial events, having such a large representation at this event is a real achievement and highlights the outstanding work being done by Vance, Nora and team…. Continue reading
The action continued at the weekend, with the next installation of the National Indoor Juvenile Championships. The Striders had a number of athletes in action, resulting from strong performances in their provincial championships. The middle distance competitors excelled, with all making their respective finals. Darragh Flannelly came agonisingly close to… Continue reading
The Striders had two race walkers competing at the National Indoor event, following their medal winning performances at the recent provincial championships. Waking up to a snow blizzard on race day, it was a long and slow journey to Athlone, but a trip that proved to be well worth it…. Continue reading
The bandwagon kept rolling along for the juvenile Striders at day 4 of the Leinster Indoor Juvenile Championship. Myles Hewlett won Leinster U14 800m, with an absolute superb performance leading from start to finish. Darragh Flannelly finished 3rd in the U15 800m, with another great run, and will surely go… Continue reading
After a competitive day at the National Masters Indoors in Athlone, the senior squad brought home an impressive total of 4 National medals. John McGrath – National Champion 1500m in 4 mins 32 Gavin Kelly – 400m 2nd and Long Jump 3rd Sonya Byrne – 400m 3rd What a day… Continue reading
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.
