Today at the ALSAA (Aer Lingus Sports & Athletics Association) in the Airport saw the younger athletes in the TEAM compete for their schools at the Leinster Minor Schools Championships.
First up for the day were our 10Yr old girls Lucy Stapleton (Scoil Naomh Padraig) and Caoilfhinn Tan (St Colmcille's) in the 50BC with both girls delivering some new PB's, Lucy with a 53.43 and Caoilfhinn taking the bronze medal with a superb 43.64 seconds. In the boys 10yr event David Martinez-Dunn (St Mary's Rathmines) delivered a massive PB to finish in 47.84 seconds. Later in the session Jessica Burke (Mount Anville) swam to a superb Gold Medal swim with a huge PB in the Girls 10Yrs 50BF and a new time of 40.58. The next swim for the troops was the 10Yr FC event with Lucy Stapleton, Caoilfhinn Tan and Aisling Field swimming strongly again to new PBs with Lucy in 48.4, Caolifhinn in 40.22 and Aisling delivering a super silver medal winning swim in 38.2. To finish the morning David Martinez-Dunn returned for his second PB swim with a 44.4 second swim in the boys 10Yr FC, while the morning finished on a high with Jessica Burke and Aisling Field delivering some excellent swims in the Girls 10Yrs 50BS with two PB's, Aisling in bronze medal position with 52.57 and Jessica with her second gold of the morning in a 46.24 second PB swim.
After a light lunch break, the older age groups attended in the afternoon. After the Irish team’s performance last night, the athletes from St Mary’s BNS Rathfarnham were led in to the event by Jason Cosgrove, or Coach Cosgrove, who armed with a written warmup plan for each athlete, did a superb job of helping his school and team mates to delivering some fantastic swims in the afternoon. With Jason organising his team, the event took off with Rebecca Burke (Mount Anville) delivering a strong start to the afternoon with a 100IM swim. Following up were Luke O’Donoghue (St Mary’s BNS) and Cathal Tan (St Colmcille’s) who also swim the 12yrs 100IM in two strong PB’s. Luke’s 1:36.4 was a great PB for him with Tan’s 1:30.9 swim earning him a bronze medal. Next up was Anna Stapleton (Scoil Naomh Padraig)who raced to a big PB or 37.87 in the 11Yrs 50FC. The 11Yr old boys were represented by Jonathan O’Donoghue, Adam O’Neill and Sam Cosgrove all from St Mary’s BNS and Adam Flanagan (Ballyroan BNS) and Eoin Feighan (GS Cnoc Liamha). Big PB’s were the order of the day with O’Donoghue (42.6), O’Neill (47.5), Cosgrove (41.6), Feighan (38.35) and Flanagan (37.6) showing solid new PB’s for all the boys.
The next event for the team was the 12yr old girls 50BC with Deirbhile & Sorcha Gannon (Scoil Naomh Padraig) representing the school with two good PB’s in 48.3 and 49.27 and Rebecca Burke (Mount Anville) also delivering a new PB with 40.9. The 11Yr Old 50BS saw Johnathan O’Donoghue (1:02.0), Adam O’Neill (1:01.9) both from St Mary’s BNS continue the days efforts whilst Eoin Feighan (GS Chnoc Liamha)swim to a super PB of 51.0 and a silver medal result. Coach Cosgrove was proud of his team as the 12 yr old BF for boys saw Cathal Tan swim 42.57 and Luke O’Donoghue swim to a blistering PB and a bronze medal in a excellent 40.5.
The girls of Scoil Naomh Padraig combined the services of Sorcha Gannon (BC), Aisling Field (BS), Anna Stapleton (BF) and Lucy Stapleton (FC) swim to a great result of 2nd place for the school. Having the girls set the standard, Coach Cosgrove’s finely tuned athletic machine of Adam O’Neill (BC), Patrick Murphy (BS), Luke O’Donoghue (BF) and Sam Cosgrove (FC) delivered another silver medal performance in the boys 11-12yrs Medley Relay.
Anastacia Kychygina (St Maelruains) led off the afternoon with a gold medal performance in the 11 Yr old girls 100IM and new PB, whilst the 11yr old boys of Stephen Herlihy (St Joseph’s) and Adam Flanagan (Ballyroan BNS) delivered a silver and bronze medal result and two further PB’s for themselves. Deirbhile Gannon was pleased with her effort in the 12yrs 50FC with a strong swim of 41.7, whilst in the 12yr old boys age group David Rigg (Stratford NS) and Patrick Murphy (St Mary’s BNS) saw two further PB’s for the boys in 40.4 and 36.6 respectively. Anna Stapleton continued her good day’s results with another PB in the 11yr old 50BC and a new PB of 48.61, while Anastacia Kychygina swam to her 2nd gold medal of the day in a 38.64 for the same 50BC event.
Stephen Herlihy (St Joseph’s) also finished his day with style in a 46.4 swim in the 11yr old boys 50BC and his second silver medal of the day. David Rigg (Stratford NS) and Patrick Murphy (St Mary’s BNS) returned to the pool with strong Breastroke swims of 55.3 and 50.4 respectively. The last individual swim of the day was Sam Cosgrove delivering a great effort in the 50BF and a super 57.0 in the 11yr old boys section.
The girls of Scoil Naomh Padraig (Aisling Field, Sorcha Gannon, Deirbhile Gannon and Anna Stapleton) and the boys of St Mary’s BNS (Patrick Murphy, Jonathan O’Donoghue, Luke O’Donoghue and Sam Cosgrove) did their schools proud again with 4th place finished in the 11-12 yrs freestyle relays.
All in all, it was a fantastic day for the junior athletes, their schools and their parents for all the support. Watch out Trapp and all the other coaches out there as Jason Cosgrove, did a superb job, organising his team mates, motivating them all and encouraging and supporting them all the way. Well done Coach Cosgrove !!
Good job to you ALL !!
Brian Sweeney
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