Killarney Valley AC Continue to Excel

KILLARNEY VALLEY ATHLETIC CLUB

Conor O’Donnell travelled to Dundalk for the National Juvenile B Cross Country Championships last weekend. Conor was the 4^th scoring member of the 6 man Kerry Team that took a silver medal along with athletes from Iveragh AC & Star of the Laune. Well done Conor.

Ciara Kennelly was in form this weekend when she represented DCU at the Irish University Indoor Championships. Ciara jumped a lifetime personal best of 1.79m coming joint 1^st. Ciara also competed in the Loghboro UK Open the previous weekend and came 2nd with a jump of 1.73. Well done Ciara.

Killarney Valley AC had a big weekend of Track & Field Athletics in the Munster Indoor U20/U23/Senior & Masters Championships held in Nenagh. In the Masters, Pierce O’Shea came 2^nd in the M35 200m. Alan Delaney came 1^st in the M40 60m and High Jump. Tim Horgan came 1^st in the WFD, 2^nd in the Shot and 2^nd in the M40 High Jump. Derek Pyne came 1^st in the M45 400m and Long Jump. Pierce, Alan, Derek and Tim won gold in the Masters 4x200 Relay. Tomas Griffin came 1^st in the M50 Long Jump. Brid Stack came 1^st in the 200m and 2^nd in the W50 400m. Maureen O’Shea came 2^nd in the WFD and 3^rd in the W55 Shot Put. Mike Murphy came 2^nd in the M55 60m. Oisin O’Regan came 1^st and Jason O’Reilly came 2^nd in the U20 60mH. Bart Zglinski came 2^nd in the U20 High Jump. Cian O’Brien came 3^rd in the 200m. Oisin, Jason, Bart and Cian came 1^st in the U20 4x200m Relay. Jack O’Leary ran a fantastic race to win the U23 800m. Eoin O’Reilly was 1^st in the 1500m and 3^rd in the U23 800m. Anna O’Shea came 2^nd in the U20 Pole Vault.