Kilcoole AC

💫✨ Special Olympics ✨💫

All of Kilcoole Athletic Club would like to wish the very best of luck 🍀 to former club legend and current Bray Lakers superstar Zoe O’Hanlon who is competing at the special Olympics athletics event in Morton Stadium 🏟️ 👏🏼🙌🏼

We know she will smash it 💪

Well done Zoe, the O’Hanlons and Bray Lakers Lakers Sports & Social on the achievements to date and hopefully Zoe will come down to us soon to tell all her former pod friends all about it 💖

💫🏔️ Trails news 🏔️✨

Yesterday evening our trailsters were up in Ballinastoe for this week’s Leinster League race 💪

It looked like a toughie 11k with 504m climbing 💪

Massive well done to everyone who ran 🏃🏼‍♂️🏃‍♀️ and shout out to Amanda for volunteering and sending on these great snaps 📸

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✨📣 Award Announcement 📣✨
We are delighted to announce that our very own Master Sprinter Lucianne Hughes was crowned Sportsperson of the Year at the Greystones Municipal Council People of the Year Awards yesterday evening ✨💫🥳🎉
Lucianne is a very deserving recipient of this award not only for all her wonderful achievements in the world of Masters Sprinting but for everything she represents and everything she does to give back to the club 🙏🏼
Lucianne is such an inspiration to us all so we were very proud to nominate her and even prouder that she won 🥳💪💚🪿

Huge thanks to female club captain Dúns for taking the lead on this and along with Lucianne's proud family being there on the night along with club secretary Aileen and club members Fiona Keeshan and Lourda Scott Green to support and congratulate 💗🙏🏼
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🎉✨Juvenile results ✨🎉

Another great day for the Juveniles at the Leinster Track and Field Championships in Tullamore where they not only competed but supported each other and the fun and camaraderie was in full swing ✨

Hugo U14 PB in High Jump 1.25m 💪👏🙌🎉

Otto U14 Gold 🥇 in High Jump PB of 1.64m 🎉 Massive congrats to Hugo and Otto and proud Mammy and Coach Mary Fahy Bowles 🙌👏💪🎉 Mary Fahy Bowles

Zoe Boydell U15 girls 800m bronze 🥉 🎉 Massive congrats to Zoe and Coach John O'Toole 🙌👏💪🎉

Both progress to Nationals later in July 🙌 👏💪 wishing them the very best of luck 🍀

Amelie Wenk got through to finals in the 200m GU15 and finished 6th in the final 💪👏🙌🎉 Massive congrats to Amelie and Coach Buntu 🙌👏💪🎉

Anthony Kleinbooi U18 got through to 200m final 💪👏🙌🎉

Justin Ivanets U19 also made it through to the final in the 200m 💪👏🙌🎉

Both of these athletes made it through tough heats to reach the final 💪👏🙌🎉

Massive congrats to Anthony and Justin and Coach Buntu 🙌👏💪🎉

Huge well done to everyone involved 🥳 🎉

Many thanks to Athletics Leinster and all the volunteers 🙏

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🪿✨Junior result✨🪿💚💛🤍🖤

Huge congratulations to our Junior athlete and long time member Naomi Wall who finished 1st Junior 🥇 and 3rd female overall 🥉 in the Athletics Wicklow 5km road race championships on Wednesday night 👏

Naomi clocked a personal best time of 18.01 🔥

Proud parents Sinead and Shane were in attendance to support and cheer her on 🔊 🤗

Naomi was also an important 2nd scorer for our Senior Women's team who secured 2nd place 🥈👏🙌💪

We are all very proud of you Naomi 🥳🎉

Fantastic photos of fantastic athletes

🏆Athletics Wicklow County 5km Road Race Championships 🏆💙 💛

🔥What an incredible evening of road racing for our club again this year 💪

👏Soo many amazing individual and team performances and PB's 🥳🎉

Sarah Diamond 1st female overall County Champion 🥇🏆 1st Senior 🥇

Naomi Wall 3rd female overall 2nd Junior 🥈 🥉

Aoibhe McCarthy 3rd senior🥉

Fiona Kelly 4th senior 🔥

Eileen O'Toole 2nd F35 🥈

Clare Browne 4th F35 🔥

Dúnlaith Ward 4th F40 🔥

Emma Barry 3rd F45 🥉

Lisa Byrne 4th F45 🔥

Georgina McWilliams 4th F50 🔥

Gráinne McCarthy 2nd F55 🥈

Vicki Nicholson 2nd F60 🥈

Female Senior Team Sarah, Naomi, Aoibhe🥈

F35 Team Eileen, Dúns, Emma 3rd 🥉

F50 Team Georgina, Vicki, Gráinne 2nd🥈

Reuben Whelan 3rd overall 🥉 1st senior 🥇

Chris Lumsden 10th overall 🔥

Brian Gurrin 13th overall 🔥 1st M55 🥇 shiny new PB ✨

Brian O'Regan 3rd M40 🥉

Brian 0'Gorman 3rd M55 🥉

Gordon McWilliams 1st M60 🥇

Conor Nolan 2nd M65 🥈

Male Senior Team Reuben, Chris, Niall Fox, Andy Lawless 2nd 🥈

M50 team Brian Gurrin, Brian O'Gorman, Keith Driscoll 1st 🥇

💪 Phenomenal running from each and every one of you who showed up and gave it your all 🙌👏🪿💚💛🤍🖤 KAC Abú Better Together

Huge thanks to Athletics Wicklow and all the volunteers on the night and to Beyond the Trees Avondale for hosting 🙏 See you all again next year ✨

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