Leevale senior athletes competed in the league finals in Tullamore last Sunday. For a change this year the sun shone on Tullamore. Leevale fielded strong teams for both the women’s and men’s events. The competition was strong and nine point wins were difficult to achieve. Leevale women’s team scored a total of 103 points to [...]

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Leevale had nine teams competing in the National Juvenile Relays in Tullamore yesterday and seven of these won medals. This was the last T&F event of the year for many of these athletes and it was great to finish the season on a high with seven winning teams.
Results:
BU13 4×100:    2nd
BU15 [...]

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The upcoming weekend is going to busy one for many of Leevale’s athletes. On Saturday the U13-U19 juvenile athletes travel to Tullamore for the All-Ireland Relay finals and on Sunday the senior athletes also travel to Tullamore for the National League Final. Both the men’s and women’s teams are well positioned going into the [...]

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Leevale athletes were in superb form at the National Track and Field Championships held in Santry Stadium over the weekend. Our women struck gold on a number of fronts. Beijing bound Derval O’Rourke won her 7th 100m hurdles title in 13.04. On Saturday Deirdre Murphy returned from the US to finish 2nd in the Discus [...]

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Leevale athletes Chris Murnane and Patrick Maher are selected on the Irish team that will compete in the Celtics on August 2nd in Scotland. Chris will compete in the 400m hurdles and the 4×400m relay, while Patrick will join Chris on the 4×400m relay team.
We congratulate both athletes on their latest international selections.

Chris Murnane in [...]

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96FM in conjunction with Heinz recently held an athletics summer camp with Sonia O’Sullivan at CIT. This event was supported by Leevale AC who provided the coaches for the ten disciplines that were coached on the day. A total of 120 young athletes attended and many experienced the various events of athletics for the first [...]

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Derval O’Rourke took time out of her very busy schedule preparing for Beijing to take a hurdles training session with Leevale’s young athletes. All who participated enjoyed the session immensely. Derval passed on a lot of knowledge and hurdle techniques to the athletes is a short period of time. This is a day to remember [...]

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With most of Leevale’s athletes competing in their preferred events in Antrim last weekend a small band of Leevale athletes travelled to Tullamore today for day three of the AAI Juvenile T&F Championships. David Quilligan had an excellent win in Boys U19 long jump with an impressive 6.70m jump. David also competed in the 200m [...]

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