Just a handful of Leevale athletes made the long trip to Belfast over the weekend for the national indoor track and field championships.  Held for the first time at the impressive Odyssey Arena the championships must be regarded a resounding success.
Leevale was well represented in the sprints.  In the 60m Jer O’Donoghue clocked a PB [...]

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Leevale athletes were in great form over the weekend.  Claire Gibbons, just back from a training stint in South Africa showed the benefit of it with an outstanding performance in the national intermediate cross country championships, held at the Phoenix Park.
Claire was in top form as she demolished the field, winning with twenty seven seconds [...]

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The Kit Kat Munster schools cross country championships were held at a rain soaked St. Augustine’s College Dungarvan yesterday.  The continuous rain made the surface very slippery but the course was excellent otherwise.
The senior boy’s race saw Jamie McCarthy of Kinsale CS take an early lead, but was soon joined by Mark Hanrahan of Douglas [...]

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The National junior indoor track and field championships produced an exciting shot putt competition with two Leevale athletes battling it out for the first two places.
The competition brought Deirdre Murphy and Kathleen Fitzgerald together in competition for the first time, and it resulted in a great tussle between the two of them.  In the first [...]

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Weather conditions were excellent for the south Munster schools cross country championships at Carraig na bhFear today.  Numbers were reasonable in all races, but a big disappointment was that only one team finished the intermediate boys race.
First race on the programme was the senior boys where Jamie McCarthy and Thomas Maunsell broke away from the [...]

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