Close to a thousand young athletes contested the Clare Community Games Athletics Finals in Lee's Road, Ennis on Sunday, 12th of June. Tulla was represented by a team of over 23 young athletes many competing at their first county athletics final. There were many fine performances from the team. Highlights from the day included a semi final for our U10 Mixed Relay Team of Evie Quinn, Lisa Nicholas, Matthew Nolan and Ryan Curtis. Our U8 girls continued to show great promise with Liadan Coleman and Ada McMahon qualifying for the U8 60M final where they narrowly missed out on medals while Zoe Quinn was 6th in the U8 80M final. Eoin Donnellan finished in 3rd place in the boys U14 Javelin in a close contest. The day came to a close in spectacular fashion when Lisa Nicholas won the U10 60M Hurdles with a storming run. Lisa goes on to represent Clare at the National Community Games in Athlone on the weekend of 20th/21st August. Well done to all our athletes who did us proud. Thanks to all the parents and guardians for their support, especially Alison Donovan and Terri Quinn for the colourful batons which they made for the parade. More pictures are available on drop box - see link.https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rxrq0gyqiwxv02v/AADeEaLLtzCt2jSG7hj5DEDWa?dl=0
With just over a week to go to the County Athletics final, training will take place at St. Mochulla's National School Tulla from 10:30-11:30am. There was a good turnout last weekend and with the sun set to shine this weekend, we hope for even better!
The St Francis Credit Union Clare Community Games County Swimming Finals took place on Friday 13th May in Ennis swimming pool. Tulla was represnted by eleven swimmers and there were many fine performances. Aamong the highlights was a silver medal for our U13 Boys Relay Squad and a gold medal for Hugh Cronin in the U12 Backstroke. Thanks to Tony Cronin for stepping in at short notice to coordinate the swimming entries. Best of luck to Hugh Cronin in the National Finals in August.
Full results are listed below.
Boys U 12 – Freestyle
3. Joint 3rd – Sam Purcell, Tulla & Lee Tierney Doora Barefield
Girls U 12 Backstroke
4th. Laura Nolan – Tulla
Boys U 12 Backstroke
1st. Hugh Cronin - Tulla
Boys U 16 Freestyle
3rd. Ben Purcell - Tulla
Relays U 13 Boys
2nd. Tulla – Hugh Cronin, Dylan Culloo, Eoin Donnellan & Sam Purcell
