The Irish Life Health National Juvenile Championships took place across the weekend in the fantastic venue that is Tullamore. Again the Menapians athletes took to the road and competed with pride for their Club.
Friday evening saw the start of competition and in what can only be described as a huge downpour in the U18 final Eimear Halpin ran a super race to claim 4th over 400m hurdles in 1:11.11. On Saturday Triini Jurisoo again took her place in the throwing cage and in a tough U18 competition finished a well earned 5th place in the hammer throwing a best of 31.51.
Jack Halpin competed on Sunday in the U16 discuss and finished a creditable 10th place in a strong competitive field of throwers.
Our final competitor at the Irish Life National Juvenile was Ruby Reynolds who was racing U16 girls 80m hurdles.
Ruby has put in very dedicated training to get there and ran Heat 1 12.93 finishing 3rd and taking an automatic qualifying spot for the final.
Unfortunately Ruby suffered every athletes dread and was disqualified in the final for a false start. This was a stroke of bad luck but she took it in her stride and we are sure she will bounce right back after a break.
Special mention to our coaches for their efforts working with these states having them competition ready.
