Awards keep coming for Cushinstown club

CUSHINSTOWN AC were very well represented at the Meath Athletic Awards ceremony for 2016, held in the Ardboyne Hotel in Navan. an.

They werere led by Paul Keogan ogan who competed ed in the Games Paralympicin mn Rio de Janeiro, while the award for best performance at a major championshipwent pito to Elizabeth Morland rland who also scoopedooped a Juvenile All Star Award 2016 at the weekend from AthAthletics Ireland. Their annual awards ceremony is a celebration of the ‘next generation of stars’. Underlining her credentials again, Morland (pictured celebrating, brating,celebrating, above rightright) competed edcompeted over the weekend at the IIrish Life Health National IndoIndoor Championship pioChampionship in AbAbbotstown anand won her firfirst Senior IndIndoor 60m huhurdles title tletitle in a winning ningwinning time of 8.50s8.50sec - a new personpersonal best. Other Cushinstowntown award wwinners at the Meath ceremony wwere Shannon Sheehy, Niall Flanagan, Laura Bolster, Amy Callaghan, Aoife Lenehan, Zoe Mohan, Dominic McCabe, Michael O’Sullivan, Shane Joyce and Donal Kearns.

•Former Cushinstown AC star Keith Marks, now of Clonliffe Harriers, won silver in the long jump at last weekend’s All-Ireland Senior Indoor Championships at the new Abbotstown National Arena, with a best on the day of 7.05m.

That followed the Duleek native’s Intervarsities Track & Field Indoor gold at the Athlone IT Arena the week before, where he recorded five jumps close to seven metres in the colours of DCU.