McCains Young Athletes League

18th May 2010SPARTANS DOMINATE ROUND 2 OF YAL

The second round of the Northern Ireland YAL took place last weekend at a sunny Templemore Sports Complex with City of Derry Spartans dominating the meeting. After leading Round 1 of the N.I. League by 200 points from Regent House, Belfast, the Spartans were feeling very confident. more

9th May 2010YAL Round 2

Below complete rd2 and senior results from today’s YAL competition. We have again got another YAL record. In Round 1 it was Clare Dougherty from City of Derry Spartans who achieved a Under 15 Juniors High Jump record with 1.60m and now this weekend we have a new Under 17 Youth Javelin record by Matthew Martin with 54.55m.Thanks Chris. Rd2 Match 1 here, Rd2 Match 2 here, Rd2 Senior results here.

9th May 2010YAL Round 1

A very good start to the first round, by all the Spartan Athletes. Two buses travelled to Antrim Forum with strong teams and even with a few cry offs the Spartans showed why they are Northern Ireland Champions for the last three years.

The day started with the short hurdle races where the club showed their strength in depth by winning the boys U15 & U17 races. This was followed by the longer hurdles where Andrew Bolster on his first outing at this distance (400m Hurdles) destroyed the field with an unofficial time of 60.4sec.

Later in the day Claire Dougherty U15 broke the YAL Record with a winning jump of 1.60m . Great start to the season for Claire. Tamara Boyle & Rebecca Mc Laughlin (U17) ran a great 300m with both girls winning their races. Another great performance was Roisin Laverty winning the Long Jump with a new PB 5.04m. More success from Anna Barr (U17) 100m & TJ (10.64m) and a great race from Amy Jackson (U15) to win her first 1500m race on the track. Mark Mc Garvey & Ryan Mc Parland gave a great account of themself during the day by picking up valuable points for the team and winning their events.

Earlier in the morning the Hammer throwers did great with some pb from Calum Imrie(U15) and Lisa Dobbins (u17) and Aine Harkin (U15).
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Our u13 team were just brilliant as it was their first time to compete for the club. Well done to all the athletes on Saturday and we are looking forward to seeing how the team scored after all these great performa

More news from the London Mini Marathon where Aoife Laverty was representing Northern Ireland and finished first girl home on the team over the 3miles. Well done Aoife.

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