TRIP TO EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
The European Team Championships were held in Santry, Dublin over the weekend and a group of Greystones athletes & coaches spent a very enjoyable day watching 1st class athletics and collecting autographs from top athletes. The highlights of the day had to be watching both women’s & men’s Irish teams winning their 4 x 400m relays. Many complimentary comments were passed throughout the day, on what a great group of supporters GAC were.  Well done guys……. you made a great impression!

UPCOMING EVENTS
The Leinster Combined Events for U14 upwards is on next Sat. 29th June in Navan. Anyone wishing to be entered by the club needs to fill in the form on the website by Thurs. afternoon latest. Late entries will be accepted on the day, but this will cost you €12 for juveniles & €20 for adults. All age groups are doing a Pentathlon. Programme of events is on www.athleticsleinster.org under programes & entry forms.
National Juniors is on in Tullamore on next Sun 30th June.  Anyone wishing to take part needs to contact Theresa immediately as entries are overdue.
The Wicklow 3k Junior (U16-U20), Senior/Masters 3K women’s & 5k men’s Championships will be held on the Greystones track on Wed 24th July @ 7pm.  Entry form will be on the website shortly.
The National Pairs event is on Sat next 29th June in Finn Valley, Donegal and we wish Ellen McNally and Emma Quirk the very best of luck in the U11 Long Jump, which they qualified for in Tullamore.
Best of Luck to Amaris Borel competing in the hurdles at the Tailteann Games, also on next Sat. 29th June.
National U12-19 Championships will be held on Sat/Sun 6th /7th & 20th/21st July in Tullamore. Best of Luck to all our athletes taking part and also to our relay teams.
Round 2 of the National League is on Sun 14th July in Cork or Sligo. Draw should be available this week and a bus will be arranged. Any athletes from U17 – adult who are available to compete, should let Theresa know asap please. We need everyone we can get in order to reach the league finals again.

TRAINING
Training for our younger athletes Tues 5-6pm and Tues/Fri 6-7pm will finish up for the summer on this coming Fri. 28th June.  Hopefully we will see a good number down this week and we will finish up on this Tues for the 5-6 pm group and on Fri. for the 6-7pm groups, with a fun filled night. Hope you all have a great summer!
Training will continue for the 7 - 8.30pm groups, who still have a number of competitions during July and early August. These groups will take a break in Aug. once competitions end, and training will resume at the start of Sept. After a two week break, athletes will need to start doing short runs every second day, in order to return ‘fit to train’.

CONGRATULATIONS
Fantastic results from the U13-19’s Leinster Championships for GAC. On day 1, Stephen Rice, with a throw of 64.41m, shattered the U18 Javelin record, adding over 8m to it and Alana Ryan broke Emily Maher’s 200 record, which has stood since 1994, by winning the U14 200m in 24.19, taking a huge .21s off the record. Gold medals also for Eoin Taggart in the Boys U19 3K and Conor Dempsey in the U16 LJ . Silver for Amaris Borel in the 80m hurdles and a 5th place finish in the 200m, bronze for Ara Freeman in the U16 200m & Cillian Browne in the 800m with a PB. 4th place finishes for Ishmael Mnensa in the U18 100m and Alison Dawson in the U15 LJ, with Alison also finishing 6th in the 200m final.  5th for Rosa Kirwan in the U16 HJ  and PB's for  Jamie Lennon 5th in the 800m and for Steven Diggin 5th in the 1500m, with Troy Scully finishing 9th in the U14 1500m final.
Day 2 brought more great results, with 2 more gold medals for Conor Dempsey in the U15 100m and triple jump and a second gold for Alana Ryan in the 100m (despite a knee injury). Gold also for Padraig Lennon, who cruised to victory in the U18 3K steeplechase and for Lorcan Lalor in the U17 300m hurdles. Lorcan also took 4th place in the 100m. Bronze for Amaris Borel in the U16 250m hurdles and for Ara Freeman in the 100m. Bronze also for Cillian Browne in the U17 1500m, for Steven Diggin in the U16 3K and Sophie Nicholson in the U13 high jump. 4th place finishes for Jamie Lennon in the U19 1500m, Katy Conroy in the U17 1500m and Isobel O’Grady in the U18 LJ. Finals places for Richael Browne finishing 7th and Sinead O'Neill 8th in the U15 800m and Sophie Nicholson 8th and David Phibbs 9th in their U13 600m. 7th place for Louis Lalor in the U14 80m final, 8th place for Catherine Casey in the U14 HJ, and Noah Daly in the LJ, with 9th for Rachel Purcell in the Discus. Top class performances from many of our younger athletes throughout the two days also, leaving us with high hopes for future years. Well done to everyone who competed over the two days and best of luck to those who have qualified for the All Irelands! Thanks to coaches, officials, parents and athletes for a great weekend's competition!

Bray Invitational
A fantastic evening was had at the Bray Invitational T&F event, with superb performances from so many GAC athletes, they are too numerous to list. Suffice to say that GAC retained the Cup by a big margin once again and we also retained the Medley Relay Shield with GAC teams finishing 1st & 2nd.  The Invitational Mile on the night saw Padraig Lennon take the win comfortably with a new PB of 4.35, with Tim Grummell of Inbhear Dee 2nd in 4.37, Jamie Lennon  3rd in 4.48, Cillian Browne 4th in 4.49 and Steven Diggin 7th, all running PB’s for the event. Well done to everyone who competed on the night and to all who helped out!

Fit4Life Round 6
Congrats to GAC athletes who took part in the Fit4Life in Roundwood. Great results with Carol Costello 1st M2 in 14.05, Jackie Patrick 1st M4 in 14.13, Shane Gillan 10th Sen man in 16.14, Alan Drinkwater 2nd M6 in 16.17 and Muriel Drinkwater 1st M6 in 19.29.  Well done all!Next race is the Djouce Predictor on July 31st

REGISTRATION CARDS
Many of you have now collected your athletics registration cards, but there are still a big number remaining. Please ask for these at check-in, if you haven’t collected it yet. For the younger athletes we would suggest that parents come down and collect them, as they are likely to get lost otherwise and they cannot be replaced. These cards entitle you to a 10% reduction at Woodies. Cards for recent registrations may not have arrived yet.