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.
The Mr Oil Senior Men’s and Women’s County Wexford Road Championships took place in Murntown last Saturday evening. Event hosts Wexford Marathon Club chose a rather testing route which included a long 1.5km uphill drag. The ladies raced over 5Km and Beth O’Connor, the sole USAC representative, raced really well… Continue reading
Done and dusted, congrats John McGrath! Team results not known until tonight. Thanks a million to Fabian Flood for keeping us updated. More photos and video clips in the post below. Enjoy the night lads!
Wexford Winter League Update. The under age Striders were in great form tonight, the first of three Friday nights, under the lights at Enniscorthy. Retaining the trophy, competing against Wexford's finest, will be quite a challenge, but well done to the following who all contributed to a solid start - Katelin, Anna O'Reilly, TJ Murphy, Sarah Lillis, Isabella O'Connor, Adam Burke, Sam Dowling, Donagh Grennan, Darragh Mackey, Maitiu Wall, Ailbhe Mackey, Cormac Delaney, Noah Finn, Dylan Galvin, Roan Kavanagh, Finn O'Reilly, Conall Delaney, Eoin Stephenson, Maeve Burke, Heather Costello, Ava Kehoe, Eanna Grennan, Max Murphy, Charlie Alfred, Olan Delaney, Ronan Shannon, Cora Noonan, Tommaso Hickey, Sean Lennon, Luca O'Connor, Isabel Bawden, Hazel Hickey, Caolan Costello, Cosmo Hewlett, Finn Kelly, Eoin Shannon, Aisling Ryan, Owen Lennon, Eve Byrne, Louise Doyle, Clodagh Foran, Erinn Shannon and Adam O'Connor.
Hopefully all athletes (and parents) enjoyed the evening. This is one of the best events of the year, as it's all about participation and we are lucky to have some really enthusiastic juvenile athletes. Apologies to any athlete who I may have missed.
Results of round 1 will be posted soon.
Info about tomorrow's cross country. John's race is at 1.15pm. And a shout out to clubmate Fabian Flood who travelled to support John, we'll be waiting for the news!
