Oct 24/31 Munster Juvenile Cross Country Championship

Munster Juvenile Cross Country Championship

Both days of the Munster Juvenile Cross Country Championships took place in Two Mile Borris, Co.Tipperary Oct 24^th & 31^st in which we had 6 teams competing.

Our U9 boys team competed magnificently in the U9B 750M race with Shay Walsh leading the team home in 30^th position, Ernie Sharkey 36th, Peter McGuigan 69th, A.J. Leahy 70th, Jeffrey Nicholson 88th & James Kelleher 96th placing the team in 7^th place.

U10 boys Odhran O’Sullivan, Tadhg Collins, Micheal Coleman & Ciaran McGrath all had great runs in the 1K race finishing 55^th, 80^th, 87^th & 105^th respectively placing them 13^th club team. Odhran also competed well up an age in the U11 race finishing 93^rd overall. Naoise Ni Laoire & Kelly Walsh also competed well in the U10 girls race.

Chloe McCarthy had a fantastic run in the U11 girls 1500M race finishing the 8^th Individual medal position qualifying her to the All-Ireland championship on both the Munster & Cork Teams, Chloe scored for Cork on the day to win County Team Gold. Lucy Mae Kelleher & Caoimhe Walsh also had great runs in the same race to finish 86^th & 111^th respectively.

Carthach O’Laoire competed well in the U12 2K race placing 98^th and Ruby Devereaux had a great run in the same race finishing 33^rd overall & 9^th finisher from Cork qualifying him to the National championships on the Cork Team.

Our 13 boys team all ran fantastically as a team in the 2,500M with Donnacha Coleman finishing 63^rd, Conor O’Sullivan 66^th, Quin Buckley 67^th & Leo Nicholson 79^th placing the team in 12^th position.

Aine Collins & Molly O’Brien had super individual runs in the U13G race with Aine placing 61^st & Molly 97^th.

Amy Coleman & Vivien Millerick had super runs in the U14G 3K race where Amy placed 61^st & Vivien finished 11^th Individual medal position qualifying her to the All-Ireland championship on both the Munster & Cork Teams, Vivien also scored for Cork to win County Team Silver.

Jude Buckley had an excellent run in a very competitive U16 boys field placing 35^th overall.

Liam O’Connor ran brilliantly both days placing 10^th medal position in the U17 5K race & 10^th medal position in the U18B 6K race qualifying him automatically on both Munster & County teams to the U17 & U18 All-Ireland Championships. Liam also won U18 County Team gold.

The U17 Girls Team placed 4^th team thus qualifying them to the U17 All-Ireland championship in Gowran. Avril Millerick led the team home winning herself Individual Gold, followed by Alex Cashman in 9^th individual medal position, Ailise Barry in 44^th & Izabella Chidlow in 47th .

Alex Cashman & Avril Millerick also ran up an age in the U18 Munster championship with their fellow clubmates Emma Landers, Avril Cashman & Robyn Buckley to win outright the Club Team Gold title. Avril Millerick finished 2^nd winning individual Silver followed closely by Emma in 4^th individual medal position, Avril Cashman 5th medal position, Alex 7^th medal position & Robyn 30^th.

Robyn, Avril Cashman & Emma ran again up an age in the U19 race where all three finished in the top 12 individual medal positions: Emma Landers 4^th, Avril Cashman 5^th & Robyn Buckley 12^th helping them to win club team gold and all scored well for Cork to win county team gold.