Round 1 of the juvenile Spring Series took place this morning on the South Beach. It was great to see so many children out running and taking part in athletics, for many it was their first time running in a race and you can all be very proud of yourselves. Congratulations to everyone who took part, many thanks to all the parents who helped with marshalling, making tea/coffee, sandwiches, home baked goods, without your help the mornings events would not have gone so smoothly.
Round 2 takes place next Sunday 10th March in Portmarnock 11am start time, details will be sent out during the week.

Results as follows:
u9 600mtrs
Girls:1. Cara McNally (Lusk), 2.Grainne Hoey (Ballyboughal), 3.Rachel Power (Clonliffe),4. Sarah Willis (Ballyboughal), 5.Natasha Byrne (Skerries), 6. Sinead Rogers(Ballyboughal)
Boys: 1.Jonathon Fitzsimons (Clonliffe), 2.Joshua Kafe (Portmarnock), 3. Oisin Hegarty (Skerries), 4. Sam Fearon (Clonliffe), 5. Andrew Brennan (Ballyboughal), 6. Daniel Coleman (Clonliffe)

u11 800mtrs:
Girls: 1. Katie Halpin (Lusk) & Aoife Hession (Clonliffe), 3.Alex Toomey (Clonliffe), 4.Alanah Fitzsimons (Clonliffe), 5. Ella Kingsnorth (Skerries), 6. Jessica Scully (Clonliffe)
Boys: 1. Cian Warren (Ballyboughal), 2.Michael Hoey (Ballyboughal), 3.Michael Coleman (Clonliffe), 4.Lorcan Devine (Skerries), 5. Brogan McCloskey (Lusk), 6.Oliver McQuaid (Skerries)

u13 1000mtrs:
Girls: 1.Anna Prior (Skerries), 2. Rapha Diamond Ebs (Skerries), 3.Ella Browne (Clonliffe),4.Abby Sheehy (Clonliffe), 5. Alana Holland (Skerries), 6. Alanah Byrne (Portmarnock)
Boys: 1.David Tuite (Clonliffe), 2.Stephen Byrne (Skerries), 3.Ben Guiden(Clonliffe),4.John Fanning (Skerries), 5.Luthino Romano (Clonliffe), 6.Cillian Forrester (Clonliffe)

u15 1200mtrs:
Girls:1. Ruth Bergin (Clonliffe), 2.Sarah Whelan (Skerries), 3.Lauren Carr (Clonliffe)4.Hannah Brown (Clonliffe), 5.Cliona Cooley (Clonliffe), 6.Amy Kelly (Clonliffe)
Boys: 1.Joseph Hession (Clon), 2.Fintan McManus (Clon), 3.Kevin Loftus (Clon), 4.Dylan Cody Foy (Lusk), 5.Conor Tuck (Skerries), 6.Alex Gibbons(Clon)

u18 1800mtrs:
Girls: 1.Laura Tuite (Clonliffe), 2.Aine McCarthy (Skerries) 3.Hope Saunders (Clonliffe), 4.Alannah Cooley(Clon), 5.Stephanie McCaul (Clon), 6. Orla Bollard (Skerries)
Boys: 1.Cathal Doyle (Clonliffe), 2.Aaron Brogan (Lusk), 3.Sean Carrick(Clonliffe), 4.Shane Merrigan(Clonliffe), 5.Daniel Kelly(Skerries), 6.Matthew Patterson (Lusk)

10 March 2012; Teams, from left to right, Skerries CC, Co. Dublin, 1st place St. MacDara’s CC, Co. Dublin, and 3rd place Ursuline, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, after the Junior Girls 2000m race at the Aviva All-Ireland Schools’ Cross Country 2012. St Mary’s College, Galway. Picture credit: Diarmuid Greene / SPORTSFILE ©SPORTSFILE

Great day for Skerries AC athletes….All-Ireland glory for Skerries Community College as they take the Inter girls team title, Isabel Carron taking the silver medal and leading her team to a fantastic victory, very proud day!!

Skerries CC Intermediate Girls Team – Aviva All-Ireland Schools Cross Country Champions 2013 l-r: Laura Costello, Rhona Pierce, Isabel Carron, Sarah Byrne, Aoimhe Downey

Results of Skerries AC athletes at Aviva All-Ireland Schools as follows:

Intermediate girls 3,500m:
2nd Isabel Carron (Skerries CC), 10th Rhona Pierce(Skerries CC), 29th Eryn Devine (Loreto, Balbriggan), 34th Sarah Byrne (Skerries CC), 49th Aoimhe Downey (Skerries CC), 50th Laura Costello (Skerries CC)
Skerries CC winning the team title on 46 points.

Senior Boys 6,500m:
30th Gavin O’Rourke (CUS), 68th Daniel Kelly (CUS)
Well done to everyone, making the Schools finals alone is a massive achievement, Congratulations !!

Round 2 of the juvenile Spring Series took to Portmarnock yesterday. The cold biting wind didn’t deter any of our young athletes who all ran brilliantly, thank you to everyone who came along and to Portmarnock AC Juniors for being great hosts.Well done to the following who all placed in the top 6, u8 girls, Isabella McIvor (6th), u10 boys, Lorcan Devine (3rd), u12 girls Lottie Simons (4th), u14 girls Anna Prior (1st), u14 boys Stephen O’Connor (4th), u16 boys Conor Tuck (3rd), u18 girls Aine McCarthy (2nd), Orla Bollard (5th), Eibhlin McCarthy (6th), congrats!

6 February 2013; Ella Fennelly, centre, Mount Anville, Dublin, winner of the intermediate girls race, on the podium with runner up Isabelle Odlum, Rathdown School, Dublin, and third placed finisher Isabel Carron, left, Skerries CC, Dublin. 2013 AVIVA Leinster Schools cross country championships, Santry Demesne, Santry, Co. Dublin. Picture credit: Barry Cregg / SPORTSFILE

Well done to our juveniles who ran todays Axa Raheny 800 junior race and a special word of congratulations to Ciara Downey who was the winner of the girls race!!

The annual Skerries AC Christmas Cake race is on tomorrow morning and should be a great fun for all! I wonder who will be the winner this year?

Juvenile Awards night and Christmas raffle takes place tomorrow night Friday 14th 7pm in Skerries Community Centre, hope to see you all there…parents, grandparents & friends all welcome. The winner of the slogan competition will also be revealed!!