Schools Districts round-up
Tue 17 May 2011--admin
This coming Saturday (and Friday night) the Antrim Forum will be buzzing with N. Ireland’s own mini-Olympics – the Ulster Schools championships. A large number of City of Lisburn athletes have qualified in their school colours and will be aiming for medals and Irish Schools qualifying places.
From the district B Inter and Senior champs last Saturday there were a load of Lisburn qualifiers. Hollie Johnston had a great double in the senior girls long and triple jumps. Sylvia Rose won high jump and javelin with sister Libby being just pipped by Hollie in a quality long jump competition and winning her speciality sprint hurdles. Laura McBurney made it through in the 100m while Helen Begley made it a Lisburn 1-2-3 in the long jump by snatching the third qualifying spot for the Ulsters.
The Inter girls saw a Lisburn middle-distance double from Courtney Sloan (800m) and Rebecca Harvey (1500m). In the throws, Kathryn Wallace took the district shot title with a 7.86m PB plus took 2nd in the hammer. Caris Greenwood won the discus convincingly with a throw of nearly 33m while Amanda Mitchell in 2nd threw a PB.
In the senior boys’ shot James Megarity was 2nd with 11.71m despite a niggly back. Kadhum Hasson and Harry Howard took 3rd place in the Inter 100m and 200m respectively while Josh Atkinson had a good discus / javelin double.
In district C, Ballymena based Roseanna McGuckian took a classy double in the junior girls 200m and long jump. Her 200m clash with club-mate Erin Quinn will be eagerly anticipated come Saturday! Louis McGuckian wasn’t to be out-done by his big sister, taking the minor boys’ long jump title with 4.06m.
In district D, Jessica McMaster is another who’ll be in the mix in the junior girls 200m after qualifying in 2nd place from her district while Aiobhin McManus won her speciality long-jump and also made it through in the Inter 100m.
Back in district A at Bangor last Friday the minor and junior events saw Kathryn Case win the triple jump in style with a 9.75m PB while clinching 3rd place in the shot with a final round 8.20m PB. Megan Mairs was one of the oustanding athletes of the meet with a 1.51m high jump / 12.4s 75m hurdles double. Caitlin Lyness made it through in the minor girls 800m.
Good luck to all Lisburn athletes at Antrim this weekend!!