Championship Success for Tallaght Juveniles

The Dublin juvenile Cross Country Championships at Santry on Sunday last was another very successful outing for the club.

The under 10 girls were the first group to toe the line for the 1,000m contest where individual medallist Eve Keegan led Fay Dervan, Sophia Kourrini, Orla Doyle and Katie Jordan to team bronze, whilst in the boys equivalent Kevin Lahiffe, Ianaengus Geraghty and Carl Graham in addition to winning individual medals, combined with Dylan Byrne and Kayden Armstrong to take the Top team honours.

There was further success for the club in the U12 2,000m contests where Grace Dervan and Nadine Johnston Hickey who were conceding a year to most of their rivals finished amongst the individual medallists and secured their place on the Dublin team for the National Championships in Derry on 28th of November, and combined with Rebecca Casey (14th), Ciara Jordan (19th) and Alana Walsh who also stepped up in age to win the team silver medals and qualification as one of the three Dublin teams for the Nationals.

The boys U12 took a similar team colour after Cathal Dervan, individual Silver medallist, Seamus Noone and Michael Ward individual medallists and qualifiers for Dublin combined with James Ackerman and Ryan Kidd to book their place in the team contest at Nationals.

In the U16 4,000m Tallaght had three individual medallists and qualifiers for the County & Regional squads in the top 12 with Boniface Chege (8th) leading Sean Mc Cabe (10th), Conor Murray (12th) and Dylan Kennedy, the latter two stepping up in age, to team silver, whilst in the girls equivalent Jade Johnston unfortunately retired after the first circuit.

Roisin O’ Hanlon contested the 3,000m Junior Women’s Championships, but unfortunately finished out of the qualifying positions over a distance too short for her liking, whilst in the Junior Men’s contest Brian Connolly was the first to cross the line with Uchenna Uwechue one place further back followed by Sean Fitzpatrick and Niall Meehan.