Leinster Juniors

Congratulations to Conor Murphy who was 3rd in the Junior 800m race recently, also congratulations to Erica Dixon who was 4th in the Schools All-Ireland Javelin last weekend in tullamore.

Schools Athletics East & West Leinsters

Apologies to all athletes for this late post at this competition took place 2 weeks ago , the following athletes represented their respective schools;
Conall Hayes, Conor Kiely- Colaiste Chiarain, Conall won his event and will go forward to the Leinster Schools on 21/5/11.
Sean Flanagan & ConorMurphy - Maynooth Post Primary, Conor was 2nd in the 800m and 1500m and he will go forward to the Leinster Schools also, but he can only do one event.
Erica Dixon -Institute of Ed won the Senior javelin and will compete in Leinster Schools.
Congratulations to you all and best of luck in your upcoming competitions.

National League- Kildare Athletics

Congratulations to Erica Dixon who competed on the Kildare Team in the final of the National League. Kildare Athletics finished in 2nd Place earning them a Silver Senior Medal. Erica competed alongside Rose Anne Galligan and Claire Brady both international athletes, along with fellow clubs athletes, Sinead (Celbridge) Naimh ( St Cocas) Rachel (St Cocas) Pauline (Kildare) Corla (Naas) Evelyn (Newbridge) Sophie (Newbridge) Fiona (Newbridge) Chloe (St Cocas).

Well done to all the girls, they were beaten by Galway by a mere 2 points, this is a very young team with great future.

Erica - Le Chéile Golden Girl

Congratulations to Erica Dixon who won Gold in Javelin event at All Ireland Track & Field competition last weekend. Erica threw an impressive 31.9m to win gold medal and also achieved a personal best This result is even more impressive when you consider that Erica has been extremely busy studying for and completing her Leaving Certificate and as such has not been able to dedicate her normal time to the training programme.

Beware with Javelins

Given that we have a number of junior athletes who have started throwing Javelin lately, in case there is any doubt as to how dangerous it can be......as a picture paints a thousand words.