In poor weather at Tullamore over the weekend, Conor McGrattan won the AAI U14 Championship at javelin with a huge pb of 38.42m as well as putting 9.60m for 8th in the shot. Tasha Paxton had a big weekend too, winning U16 100m and 200m in 12.63 and 25.66 secs, fractionally outside her 100m pb and her first sub 26 at 200m taking her to second in the club top ten. David Keys also had a double winning U18 discus and hammer in 45.91 and 47.92m.
There was also a pb in the U16 200m for Kathryn Colwell who was second to Tasha in 26.06 secs. Other performances tended to suffer from the conditions but medals went to Kim Shaw, 3rd at U18 300m in 42.69 secs, and to Steven Colwell, 3rd at 250m hurdles in 36.75 sec as well as 5th in U15 80m hurdles in 12.33 (-2.1). Kerrie Craig was 5th in U14 high jump in 1.45m, Ryan Kerr was 5th at U17 100m in 11.69 secs, Robin Brown 6th in U18 3000m in 9:33.98 and Mark Patterson 7th in U16 800m in 2:09.68.