Six club members representing their respective schools competed at The North Leinster Schools’ Championships today in Tullamore… Emma Boyle, Aoife Pentony, Liam McMahon, Dylan McCarron, Charlie Sands and Jack McCarron for Ardee Community School and Kya Mothiram for St. Vincent’s Secondary School.In a huge field for the Junior category our athletes did well – Emma jumped into 6th position in both the Long Jump & 75mHurdles, Aoife threw amazingly well to finish 4th in the Javelin, her first ever Javelin competition and Liam came 10th in a tough 800m.In the Intermediate category Jack finished 10th in the 1500m, Dylan came 5th in the Javelin with Charlie taking home the bronze and a new PB of 31.29m and then took silver in the 400m. And throwing a new PB of 12.68m in the Shot Put and 33.13m in the Discuss it was a double Gold day for our throwing Champion, Kya.Finishing up the boys decided to enter the Intermediate 4x100m Relay coming 5th in a nail biting final. A fantastic day, well done to all our young athletes.
