Change of Date for Western Final of Primary School Sports
Due to circumstances beyond our control we have to reschedule the western final of the primary school sports to Thursday May 28th and the county final will move back to June 4th. Hopefully by then we will have more settled weather. On Thursday last despite the rain the heats for the big schools took place and with the cooperation of athletes’ parents and teachers we got through the programme in less than two hours. We look forward to seeing all the qualifiers from big and small schools back in action on the 28th and if the qualifying heats are anything to go by we should have an exciting and action packed evening.
Quiet weekend on club front
Last week end was a free weekend on the club front as our older athletes travelled to the University of Limerick to compete for their schools at the Munster Schools Championships. West Waterford athletes were in action representing Ard Scoil na nDeise, Blackwater CS, Dungarvan CBS, St. Augustines and St. Declans. Among the gold medal winners were: Joe Conway,walk; Kate Hickey, discus; Tima Jesifov, Thomas Houlihan, pole vault; Lisa Houlihan, triple jump and pole vault; Zoe Scanlan, discus and Kate Veale, walk.
Silver medals were won by Claire Collins high jump; Micheal Devine and Martin Houlihan pole vault; Kate Hickey shot; Tyrone Power relay and Zoe Scanlon javelin, while the following won bronze medals; Laura Connors high jump; Meg Fitzgerald hammer; Leann Herlihey pole vault; Laurence Houlihan pole vault; Thomas Houlihan hurdles; Aoife Kiely walk; Robbie Mulligan 800m; Aine Power triple jump. Most of these athletes will be gearing up for their all Ireland competition in two weeks time.
