Category: Track & Field Competition
Fantastic success for our Club’s Teams and Juveniles at the Leinster Championships this year… Leinster Team Event Championships Congratulations to our 3 Ardee Teams who competed bravely to each earn a place on the Leinster Podium at the Team Event Championships in the Lourdes Stadium in Drogheda on June 3rd. ???? “Ardee Hey” ...
Ardee & District AC had an eventful weekend on May 25th and 26gth which began with our senior Michael Lundon competing at the Leinster Combined Events in Greystones. Michael competed in the Masters’ Pentathlon and after 4 events was trailing in 5th place but in his last event of the day, the 1500m...
May has been an exciting month for our club and a very busy time for all our athletes. It began on the bank holiday where 22 of our seniors happily ran that extra distance in the 2019 controversial Belfast Marathon (see separate report) which was soon followed by the turn of our juveniles...
These Championships were held over three days with the Relays only being held on Day 1, May 9th (see separate report) and the individual events being held over two days, Day 2 & 3, May 11th and 12th – The sun came out on Day 2 of these Championships as we all headed...
May 9th – Day One of the Louth Championships were an exciting success for Ardee & District Athletic Club as seven teams competed in the Relays and all seven made the podium. First up for the club were the U9 Boys, TomJoe McCormack, Kristupas Ruskys, Jokubas Ruskys and Harry Breen who stormed home...
A force of 30 Ardee & District AC’s Juveniles headed to the Pre-Louths last Saturday and despite the windy conditions gave their best, competing well and enjoying themselves with some coming away with medals. A big thank you to Athletics Louth and the wonderful team of volunteers, always helpful and encouraging. We had...
February 23rd – Well done to members Joanne Dillon and Roy Crawley on completing the Fitzers 5K in Dundalk this morning. Great times from them both with newcomer Roy finishing in 24:52 and Joanne excitedly obtaining a new PB of 27:35. To quote Joanne “when I joined the club last April I couldn’t...
January 20th – Blackrock AC Cross Country The sun was shining for our Juveniles at the first competition of the New Year. Well done to all those who braved the bitter cold but sunny winder’s morning at Blackrock AC’s Cross Country Meeting. We all enjoyed the friendly relaxed atmosphere at this well organised...
HOT HOT HOT is the only way to describe the months of June, July & August 2018 and not only was the weather hotter than normal but our Senior Members were on fire too; competing in a variety of races throughout these months – here is a summary of their achievements….. June 9th...
Stealing away from the Fleadh Cheoil in Drogheda twelve athletes from Ardee & District A.C represented Louth at the Aldi National Community Games in the University of Limerick on the 18th & 19th of August, their first time hosting these games at this impressive venue. With the sun shining on day one...