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The club in planning on hosting a primary schools indoor T&F competition in November. We'd appreciate your support in sharing this note with parents & teachers in the county. Thanks, NOAC 
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Sunday 20th October
Munster Juvenile Even Age, Novice & U/23 Cross Country Championships Venue: Limerick Racecourse Time: First race at 11:30 (Arrive in time to get numbers and warm-up) Arrive: 10:30 (allow time for traffic) Entries: (Complete) https://ireland.entry4sports.com/entry/v5/competition/showEntries.php?compid=67 Even age Munsters. U10 Donncha Browne U12 Ruairí Walsh, Mikey Ryan, Dillon Bergin, Kevin Finn. U14 Ben Walsh, Thomas Bergin, Diarmuid Moloney. U16 Cian Hodgins, Tom Walsh, Seán Hayes, Luke Purcell, Jamie Moloney. U18 Sarah Lane, Lucy Mulcahy, Ailbhe O'Neill U18 Ted Collins County Tipperary Juvenile Uneven Age, Junior & Intermediate Cross Country Championships
5 individual titles 3 individual 2nd place finishes 4 individual 3rd place finishes. 4 team titles for Nenagh. Good day out. Senior Men - Intermediate Cross Country Championships Our senior men also travelled to Moyglass for the men's Novice race. After a great outing last week in Newport in the county novice they had great hopes for a team title in this week's Intermediate race with the addition of Aaron Quigley. Aaron ran brilliantly for 5th but the day from a Nenagh perspective belonged to Eoin Buckley in 3rd spot. Eoin was up with the leaders from the start and should be delighted with his very strong showing. Just behind Aaron was David Sheahan who won last week's Novice race. Starting slowly after being a little poorly during the week David finished like a train to take sixth. With four to score it was down to where our fourth man came home and up stepped Keith Butler with a superb run in 17th. Keith had to finish strongly to secure the title and this he did when passing four athletes in the run to the line to enable Nenagh to win by 4 points, 31pts to 35 for runners up Dundrum. It's been a while since Nenagh won this title but well worth the wait. County Tipperary Juvenile Uneven Age, Junior Cross Country Championships Second day of the County cross country saw the cross country circus move lock, stock and two smoking down to Moyglass where we were greeted with another top class course, blue sky's although the MC on the day John Moore from Dundrum could do with updating his music list. Luckily the U9s were not too perturbed by Whitney Houston's "I want to dance with somebody" and Fionn Tucker was our first athlete out and a very brave run saw him eventually finish 7th after a great final surge. Our U11 girls were not so lucky as Midge Ure was making a comeback before their race with similar success to his rugby countrymen ( come on they didn't vote for us) but Emily O'Neill in 5th and Sarah Long in 15th were superb and we're very ably backed up by Hannah Larkin and Lilly Marchand. Jennifer O'Leary was outstanding in the U13 girls race. She danced her way to an emphatic first County title and this Irish Dancing queen has a bright future in the sport. Lilly Duffy running out of age was an excellent 16th. Also U13 Diarmuid Moloney also won a first County title when he also distanced himself from the rest of the field up the hill for a great win. Diarmuid had tremendous backup from his team with Kevin Finn 3rd in his first race for the club, Ruairí Walshe 4th after being a little unwell during the week and Dillon Bergin 11th to anchor the team to a County title. Our schools international Tom Walshe was the class act of a very classy U15 race. Sitting in behind the Irish Schools minor champ Shane Buckley for most of the race Tom used his superior track speed to finish strongly and take the title. Thomas Bergin running out of age had a great run also to finish 8th in a very talented field. Our other international Ailbhe O'Neill looked strong in her seasonal cross country debut with a second place finish behind her old nemesis and fellow international Aimee Hayde from Newport in the girls U17 race and received their medals to the aptly titled "Girls just want to have fun" by Cindy Lauper. I'm guessing that was just a coincidence as John wouldn't know the difference between Cindy Lauper and Angela Merkel. We had another first time winner in the U17 boys when Seán Hayes went clear on the last lap from teammates George O'Leary running his best race ever and Luke Purcell just back from a slight injury. They finished 1—2—3 and along with Shaun Himli they easily took the team title. Last juvenile race of the day and John's music list took another turn for the worst when Aha had a first outing since 1989 but undeterred Ted Collins had a welcome return to form winning the U19 title and along with our U17 squad of Sean, George and Luke also took the junior U20 team title. Next week we are in Limerick racecourse for the even age Munster championships. Hope they have a better music list. This day could not have come soon enough for our endurance squad. Cross country contrary to popular opinion is like your favourite onesey or favourite slippers. It just embraces the senses and all life's little niggles and problems just melt away for a couple of hours at least. Some of us live in that world permanently and cannot understand the non believers.
Today was day one of the county cross country championships in Newport and it was plain to see that the Newport committee had put in a lot of hours getting the course ready. They even organised a nice sunny day to top it off. It was a tough hilly course which suited us perfectly to show off our early season conditioning. We had three U10s two girls Emma Beresford-Miller and Jane Quigley both running very determinedly for top 20 finishes. Then the slightly more experienced Donncha Browne ran out of his skin for second in the boys race. The three U12 girls Anna Paxman 8th, Lilly Duffy 9th and Mairéad O'Brien 12th ran very well considering they are more track stars than Xc stars. Diarmuid Moloney came up a year to finish 3rd in the U14 race and is starting to be noticed as the races get longer as he is an endurance machine. Tom Bergin running his first race for the club finished 7th in this race also and will be a force to be reckoned with going forward. It's said a picture is worth a thousand words and it's true also in sport where having our more experienced athletes demonstrate how it should be done is worth any amount of coaching. So our newbies on the day u10s and U12s were able to experience the hearth warming sight of Ruairí Walshe winning his U12 race and in the process beating the hot favourite Charlie Tobin of Newport. Also U12 we had new to the club Dillon Bergin 6th and the returning Mikey Ryan 7th both running really well. We also had Cian Hodgins, Tom Walshe and Seán Hayes live up to their favourites billing with a 1-2-3 finish in the U16 race and in the process easily taking the team title. Cian and Tom were out of age and should be strong contenders in the nationals later in the year. Sarah Lane ran very strongly to finish 3rd U18 A race won by Newport's Aimee Hayde and Lucy Mulcahy was 5th in the same race. Then Ted Collins finished 2nd in his U18 race over 6k. Normally a track specialist over 800m it was good to see him run strongly over this distance. Lastly after the juvenile programme finished our three senior men David Sheahan 1st, Eoin Buckley 3rd and Alan Kelly 4th dominated the Novice mens race. David and Eoin broke away early with Paddy Cummins of Moycarkey and David pulled away at the 4k point of the 6k race to win comfortably. Visit our Facebook page or Niall Moran Photography Facebook page for photos of the races. Well done all!  Cross country starts this weekend :-). We've not been given a whole pile of time to get entries done for the first of these competitions (this Sunday 6th October), so we'll need your entries for that by 5 pm Tuesday 1st October please. Sunday 6th October County Juvenile Even Age & Novice Cross Country Championships Venue: Newport, Co. Tipperary (details below) Time: First race at 12 (Arrive in time to get numbers and warm-up) Cost €2.50 per Athlete Even Age = Juveniles: U/10, U/12, U/14, U/16, U/18 as of 31.12.2019 (More detail on age categories below) Entry Deadline = Tuesday 1st Oct 5 pm Sunday 13th October County Tipperary Juvenile Uneven Age, Junior & Intermediate Cross Country Championships Venue: Moyglass, Co.Tipperary Time: First race at 12 (Arrive in time to get numbers and warm-up) Cost €2.50 per Athlete Uneven Age = Juveniles: U/11, U/13, U/15, U/17, U19 as of 31.12.2019 (More detail on age categories below) Entry Deadline = Friday 4th Oct 5 pm Please use the the following link to submit & Pay for your entry request to the club https://www.nenagholympic.com/competition-entry-request.html
2019 Age Categories 1. Age categories calculated from 31 December in the year of competition. 2. No athlete may obtain a birthday in the year of competition and compete in that age. Please note all ages should be read as UNDER the stated age Age 9 Born 2011 Age 10 Born 2010 Age 11 Born 2009 Age 12 Born 2008 Age 13 Born 2007 Age 14 Born 2006 Age 15 Born 2005 Age 16 Born 2004 Age 17 Born 2003 Age 18 Born 2002 Age 19 Born 2001 3. Athletes may move up ONE age group except for the U/9 age group. To compete U/9, the minimum age is EIGHT years (i.e. all athletes must turn 8 years old in 2019, no athlete turning 7 in 2019 may compete). So for U/10, you can have U/9 and U/10 competing, ages need to be set to span two years instead of the usual one in T&F. 4. Novice: Must be over 19 years of age as of 31.12.2019 County Juvenile Even Age & Novice Cross Country Championships Venue: Newport, Co. Tipperary (Field is beside Lacken Park GAA field in Newport Village, Thurles rd. Newport )   Borrisokane native and Portumna based athlete Niall Kelly recently represented Nenagh Olympic and Ireland at the European Masters Athletic Championships held in Venice Italy. Niall competed in the 100m, 200m and the 100m hurdles. Niall ran a PB in the hurdles finishing in 9th place overall in that event just missing the final by one place. He ran a seasons best time in the 200m but was below par in the 100m running into a 2 meter per second headwind.
Niall is seen here (right of picture )running in the 10m. Well done Niall! Juvenile training will start back this Thursday, 5th September at 6:30 PM - 7:45pm in the CBS. We will remain outdoors for the next few weeks or as daylight/weather allows. Keep an eye on Facebook for updates on that.
*** New Members welcome! *** A reminder of our rules
Cost: €2 Per Athlete (max of €5 if > 2 Athletes) Looking forward to the Season ahead! With most of our athletes on a break after a long season we had the last couple of competitions of the year this week.
On Wednesday Jodie McGrath took part in the world famous Cork City Sports at CIT track in Cork. 15 Yr old Jodie taking part in her first senior competition almost equaled her PB in the Pole Vault and should be really happy with her efforts. This weekend saw the finals of the All Ireland Community Games in UL. On Saturday the Templederry 4x100m relay squad of James Sage, Tom McCutcheon, Lewis Doyle, Colm Ryan, William Fogarty and Aidan Murray won the U16 relay final in a very comprehensive manner. On Sunday the anchor man on that relay Lewis Doyle became the first Templederry athlete to win an individual gold medal when he won a very close U16 200m final with a very strong closing 100m. Its Lewis's first individual all Ireland medal also. Seán Hayes representing Kiladangan reached the final of the U16 1500m and finished 6th in a very competitive race. I'm sure Sean will be a star of the future as he has come a long way in a relatively short time. The cross country season starts in approximately seven weeks so it's back to full training this week 
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