Online entries for the first round of the Cork County T&F Championships for Juniors, Seniors and Masters close on Sunday 8th May. The championships take place at MTU on Monday 9th May. First event at 7:30pm. Entries will also be taken on the day – €5 per event.

A link to the events is available here:   https://www.corkathletics.org/events/eventdetail/5326/14/cork-open-track-field-evening-meet-1-2022.html

The link for online entry is as follows:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSei7Roicniz3bBJiszvwjCPW_XXIqUXpgA3IIxVwVMjhMeOEg/viewform

Results of the first race in the Summer Series are below. Well done to everyone who took part in the 3km race…

Last week, St Catherine AC held their Athletes of the Year Awards for 2021.

It was a tremendous season for the many athletes from Little Athletics all the way up to Senior level.

The two Little Athletics award winners for most improved were Nina Simmonds and Callum Geary.

In the under 9-10 age category, Leah Pyne and Adam Fitzgerald were the award winners.

Zach Pyne and Lara Byrne were the under 11-12 category recipients.

The 13+ age category covers the older age category and the most improved performers are Mia Keane and Cian Dunning.

Our Senior winners are Sarah Mulcahy and Jim Harty.

And lastly, our Overall Athlete of the Year is Kenneth O’Connell.

Kenneth,had a tremendous season, winning County, placed in Munster and his first All-Ireland Cross Country and winning his own age category All Ireland Cross Country. He also recently won the Indoor 600 metre championships in Athlone It was incredible running for such a young athlete and a credit to his hard work and his great passion for the sport. Hearty congratulations to Kenneth and all the award winners from everyone at the club and a special word of gratitude to all the coaches and officials for keeping the show on the road.

All of the award winners were presented their trophies by Kevin Hayes, Chairman of the club and  their respective coaches, Paddy, Dave, Mike & Eoin, Kieran & Frank, and Trevor.

Please follow the links below to see an order of events for the upcoming Cork Athletics County Juvenile Track & Field Championships in MTU.

Day 1 and Day 2 are U12 to U19 events only, Day 3 U9 to U11 in the morning and all relays in the afternoon.

Events taking place on each day and event order is displayed towards the end of each page.

Day 1 – Sunday May 1^st 10am

Day 2 – Sunday May 8^th 10am

Day 3 – Sunday May 15^th 10am

Results of the last 3KM Time Trial of the season. Well done to everyone who took part…

St Catherine’s AC Couch to 5km programme will recommence Wednesday 16th March at 7:30pm in Conna Field for 10 weeks.

€10 for the 10 week programme, participants must be registered with St Catherine’s AC in advance.

If you are not already registered for 2022, please email register@stcatherinesac.org and include name, address, contact number, email address, date of birth & AAI registration number (if you have it). A link will be issued in due course from Athletics Ireland where you can pay the €20 registration fee.

The Couch to 5k programme is suitable for all beginners and is available here.

Spread the word and come along – all welcome!

Please see the following link for entry details for the Cork County Road Championships on Friday 18th March in Castlelyons.

https://www.corkathletics.org/events/eventdetail/5289/-/cork-athletics-county-road-championships-2022.html

All entries will be paid for by the club, St Catherines AC athletes do not need to pay on the day.

With this in mind, we ask all club members to also give back where they can for other club hosted events (e.g. stewarding at club organised races, etc).