IUAA Indoor T&F Championships, Santry
A selection of St Abban’s athletes were in action on Friday and Saturday representing their
colleges in the Irish University Athletics Association Track and Field Championships. Field
events were the order of the day with our athletes competing across Long and Triple Jump,
Pole Vault, Hammer and Weight For Distance. In the Women’s Long jump, the Fitzgerald
sisters Lucy and Grace competed strongly. Lucy representing UCC jumped 5.04m while
Grace in the UCD colours jumped 4.35m. Lucy returned in the Triple Jump where her leap of
11.21m saw her claim a bronze medal for UCC. Katie Baldwin representing DCU finished just
outside the medals in 10.27m which was good enough for 5 th place. In the Women’s Pole
Vault, Aoibheann McDonald won a silver medal with a vault of 2.85m in the UCD colours.
Ger Kelly was in great throwing form in the Hammer. His best throw of 43.90m was a new
PB saw him finish in 5 th place. In the Men’s Weight for Distance the SETU athlete went one
place better with a throw of 7.56m which saw him finish in 4 th place. Well done to all of
these athletes and their coaches who hope for a long successful summer of track and field
action.

50 th Student Games
St Abban’s AC will host the 50 th Annual Student Games on Good Friday 18 th April at 5pm. The
school’s competition has been running for 50 years now and provides student with the
opportunity to represent their schools across a range of sprints, long distance, throws or
jumps events. Traditionally Killeshin had dominated the competition but with a re-
organisation of the teams in recent years the title has moved around more regularly.
Athletes can compete from U.7 all the way up to U.15 so athletes born in 2019 all the way
back to 2011. We look forward to seeing a big crowd to celebrate the 50 th Student Games in
Monavea on Friday evening 18 th April.

Ferrybank Open Sports
Well done to all of the athletes who competed in the Ferrybank Open Sports on Sunday last
where the club were crowned best overall club on the day. Each athlete contributes to
overall club points throughout the days events. The juvenile athletes were delighted to be
crowned overall winners. We look forward to welcoming some of these clubs back to ST
Abbans Open Sports on Bank Holiday Monday.