Double gold for Rosses AC at U-15 All Eire Excessive Leap

The ultimate weekend of the All Eire Juvenile u14-u19 Championships came about in Tullamore over Saturday and Sunday.

Rosses AC’s Amber and Sheila Gallagher competed within the javelin and shot put and each safe prime 6 completed to finish a very good season for each with good progress made.

Within the u14 ladies lengthy bounce Annie O’Neill was dissatisfied to endure an harm in her first bounce ruling her out of the competitors and it was as much as Niamh Doogan who jumped a PB of 4.90m to safe an All Eire bronze medal which was good reward for a dedicated who has labored laborious all 12 months.

Then it was on to the u15 ladies excessive bounce the place Eva Logue and Faela Houston had been flying the Rosses flag. Faela remains to be comparatively new to excessive bounce and on the day equalled her PB of 1:45m to safe a prime 8 end and know there may be extra to return.

Eva Logue offered the drama on Saturday virtually going out at 1.55m solely clearing together with her final bounce however steadying as much as then bounce a PB of 1.58m to safe the gold medal to complete of an incredible week for her having obtained an invite to compete and characterize the membership within the excessive bounce on the British Milers Membership athletics assembly on the Mary Peters Monitor in Belfast on the Wednesday.

On Sunday Una Richardson competed within the u16 ladies lengthy bounce and was dissatisfied on the day to not attain her potential however the proficient bounce is aware of she is effectively capable of compete with one of the best in Eire and can come again stronger.

Jack McElroy has suffered some accidents which has interrupted his coaching and it was nice credit score he gained the Ulster title within the u14 boys 1500m and is aware of that he competed effectively taking every thing into consideration and can be taught from the expertise at this stage.

And it was all the way down to the final occasion the place Oisin Gillespie was within the u15 boys excessive bounce and with a robust household custom on this occasion there was expectations to carry out effectively and the extremely proficient athlete was to rise to the event leaping 1.68m on the day and securing the gold on the again of his spectacular file within the competitors with 3 boys ending on the identical peak.

Oisin Gillespie who secured gold within the u15 boys excessive bounce with 1.68m including to his lengthy bounce bronze gained

This gold backed up a bronze Oisin gained 2 weeks earlier within the lengthy bounce.

Total one other extremely profitable weekend for the membership and after all of the juvenile competitions as now competed the membership has come away with a powerful haul of 15 nationwide medals,7 of them being gold.

The underage coaching will now take a break for just a few weeks earlier than beginning again into cross nation in mid August.

The membership wish to give an enormous because of all of the athletes and fogeys who’ve travelled the miles to make sure the membership was represented at competitions, to the coaches who had been there to help and the membership officers who had been there to help and supply pleasant faces and recommendation when wanted.

The main target for the adults over the subsequent few weeks would be the native 5ks and plenty of journey races arising.

Double gold for Rosses AC at U-15 All Eire Excessive Leap was final modified: July twenty fifth, 2023 by Katie Gillen

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