Girls & Boys Team Competition U9/U10 /U11,

Santry, Morton Stadium Santry

Saturday 24^th July

Timetable TBC

Name	Age Group	Event
Amelia McCallion	9	Long Jump A
Zara Akinsowon	9	Long Jump A
Name		Event
Mya Akinsowon	9	Long Jump B
Niamh O’ Farrell	9	Long Jump B
Name		Event
Niamh O’ Farrell	9	60m A
Orlaith O’ Grady	9	60m A
Name		Event
Lucy Kavanagh	9	60m B
Monika Lozovaja	9	60m B
Name		Event
Orlaith O’ Grady	9	300m A
Lucy Kavanagh	9	300m A
Name		Event
Mya Akinsowon	9	300m B
Amelia McCallion	9	300m B
Name		Event
Zara Akinsowon	9	300m C
Monika Lozovaja	9	300m C
Name		Event
Nikita Riecka	10	Long Jump
Eve McCormack	10	Long Jump
Name		Event
Nikita Riecka	10	60m
Eve McCormack	10	60m
Name		Event
Liliya Riecka	11	Turbo
Sophie Ferguson	11	Turbo
Name		Event
Liliya Riecka	11	600m
Sophie Winkless	11	600m
Name		Event
Sophie Winkless	11	60m A
Ella O’ Dwyer	11	60m A
Name		Event
Ava Kavanagh	11	60m B
Sarah O’ Farrell	11	60m B
Name		Event
Sarah O’ Farrell	11	Long Jump
Ella O’ Dwyer	11	Long Jump

Name	Age Group	Event
Jacques Duthoit	10	60m
Evan Doyle	10	60m
Name		Event
Max Lyons	10	Turbo
Jacques Duthoit	10	Turbo
Name		Event
Max Lyons	10	500m
Evan Doyle	10	500m
Name		Event
Ozie Turan	11	Long Jump
Akim Lozovoi	11	Long Jump
Name		Event
Ozie Turan	11	600m
Arthur Kenevey	11	600m
Name		Event
Arthur Kenevey	11	Turbo
Akim Lozovoi	11	Turbo

Sunday 20^th June 10:00-11:00:

•  Interclub competition with Lambay
• For 2010 & 2011 only. There is no training for other age groups.
• Please register here
• Please note it will take place at the GAA pitch in Fr. Collins Park  

Sunday 27^th June 10:00-11:30: Sunday Funday for all club members and parents too!

• Please register here
• A day of fun for all the family, starting with the family mile challenge (athletes can run with coaches if parents do not wish to race), followed by sprints, egg and spoon/sacks races as well as tug of war!
• The coaches are looking to take on some parents in a relay battle!
• The morning will close with some refreshments and announcing the Clongriffin AC awards for the athletes who represent the Olympic values of  joy of effort, fair play & respect for others.

Friday 2^nd of July 17:00-18:00: Long Jump specific training session, Morton Stadium Santry. Registration send out the week in advance.

Competition Dates 

Below are the dates for the Dublin Championships. Specific timetable/ events will be issued closer to the time by Dublin County Board.

• July Fri 15th /Sat 16th /Sun 18th: Dublin Championships aged U14-U19
• July Fri 23rd/Sat 24th/ Sun 25^th: Dublin Championships U12 & U13:
• July Fri 23rd/Sat 24th/ Sun 25^th: Dublin Championships Teams U9/10/11

Team Championships Explainer

The championship events for athletes U9 (born 2013), U10 (born 2012) and U11 (born 2011) is the Team (Pairs) competition. In this, instead of athletes competing in an event by themselves they compete with a teammate from their club. There are 4 events in the pairs and an athlete can compete in a maximum of two events. They don’t have to be with the same team mate for all events. The events involved are:

• 60m
• 300m (or 500m for older)
• Long Jump
• Turbo Javelin

Competition Age Categories Explainer

• U9: under the age of               born in 2013   already 8 or will be turning 8 in 2021.
• U10: under the age of 10        born in 2012   already 9 or will be turning 9 in 2021.
• U11: under the age of 11        born in 2011   already 10 or will be turning 10 in 2021.
• U12: under the age of 12        born in 2010    already 11 or will be turning 11 in 2021.
• U13: under the age of 13        born in 2009    already 12 or will be turning 12 in 2021.
• U14: under the age of 14        born in 2008    already 13 or will be turning 13 in 2021.
• U15: under the age of 15        born in 2007    already 14 or will be turning 14 in 2021.

8^th May Club Newsletter

It has been great, over the last two weeks to see all our young athletes back training and having fun. A special welcome to our new members and new coaches too! A big thank you to all parents for your continued support for the club and your child(ren)’s involvement in the sport of athletics.

We have pulled together some key dates including exciting news of our first Summer camp! There is also some key club information on kit, GDPR and our club Golden Rules.

Sinéad Galvin (Clongriffin AC Chair)

KEY DATES

Training Dates: Every Wednesday 18:30-19:30 in Fr. Collin’s Park until Wednesday 30^th June: All groups

DNA (intra club/inter club competition): Every Sunday 10:00-11:00 in Fr. Collin’s Park until Sunday 20^th June: Academy, Development and Pre-Performance Groups. For more information click here.

Training Groups Explained: We operate on the best practice of long-term athlete development with a strong focus on Fundamentals of agility, balance, and co-ordination. We build in speed and technical work through fun drills and games. Below are the typical split ages in our training groups. In some cases, children may prefer not to move up an age and/or we facilitate friends staying together (especially new members) to ensure a positive training experience. In September, the older athletes in each group will move up a group.  

• Little Athletics: 6-7 years of age/Coaches Conor & Lynne
• Academy: 7-9 year of age/ Coaches Erika, Kieran, Dan & Colette
• Development: 9-11 years of age/ Coaches Marie, Sinéad, Clint & Stephen
• Pre-performance: 12 + / Coaches Rachel & Cliodhna

Head Coach: Jeremy Lyons / Child Officer: Laura Cullen

Club Sunday Funday: Save the date Sunday 27^th of June 10:00-11:30 for a Sunday Funday for all training groups and parent(s) in Fr.Collins Park before the children break for summer holidays the following week.

Summer Camps:

• We are delighted to announce that we can hold a three (3) day Athletics Summer Camps at the track in Morton Stadium, Santry for club members only from Wednesday 28th July to Friday 30th July from 09:30-13:30.
• The cost will be €30 per child, all attendees will also receive a Clongriffin AC t-shirt! We are heavily subsidising the hire of the track to keep the cost as low as possible.
• We do need to reach a minimum attendance for this to go ahead. If could please register your interest here.
• Details of payment will be issued once we establish level of interes,t with payment needed two (2) weeks in advance Wednesday 14^th of July.

Competition Dates  

Athletics Ireland is working towards a roadmap to return to competition by Monday 7^th of June. Below are the dates for the Dublin Championships. Specific timetable/ events will be issued closer to the time by Dublin County Board.

• Dublin Championships aged U14-U19: July Fri 15^th /Sat 16^th /Sun18th
• Dublin Championships U12 & U13: July Fri 23^rd/Sat 24th/Sun 25^th
• Dublin Championships U9/10/11 teams & relays: July Fri 23rd/Sat 24th/ Sun 25^th

Competition Age Categories Explainer

• U9: under the age of 9, born in 2013, already 8 or will be turning 8 in 2021.
• U10: under the age of 10, born in 2012, already 9 or will be turning 9 in 2021.
• U11: under the age of 11, born in 2011, already 10 or will be turning 10 in 2021.
• U12: under the age of 12, born in 2010, already 11 or will be turning 11 in 2021.
• U13: under the age of 13, born in 2009, already 12 or will be turning 12 in 2021.
• U14: under the age of 14, born in 2008, already 13 or will be turning 13 in 2021.
• U15: under the age of 15, born in 2007, already 14 or will be turning 14 in 2021.

KEY CLUB INFORMATION

Club Kit Ordering Forms: Many of you may have already received a form from Erika at training last week (manages the sign in of athletes each Wednesday at training). For those who have not please pick one up from her at training next week. The deadline for the next order is Wednesday 19th May. You can order zip-up tops and racing vests (needed for competition). Zip-up tops ages 5-11 are €31.50/13+ €38.50. Vests ages 5-11 are €20/ 13+€25. More information here.

Waiting List: We have had a great interest in the club and currently have a waiting list in place and will not be able to take in new members until September. If know others who would like their child to be added to the list, they need to complete the form here. For parents who would like to get involved in coaching this could help in securing a place for their child earlier and should be included in the form.

GDPR: Each year we need parents to complete the Clongriffin Athletic Club Data Protection & GDPR form. Please find form here.

Golden Rules: Our priority is that all members have fun and enjoy being a member of Clongriffin A.C. and have a set of golden rules as well a more detailed athlete code of conduct.

1. We have Fun
2. We try our Best
3. We are Kind to others 
4. We Listen to our coaches
5. We Love to compete

Racing vests are needed for children who plan to compete in external competitions. Half-zip tops are optional.

We plan to hold a kit swap at Christmas 2021 which will allow members to pass on kit that their child may have outgrown etc. We are sourcing our kit from Irish owned O’Neills.

How to Order

Please complete and sign the Order Form at the bottom of this page and pay online using your child’s name as a reference. Please hand the form to Erika O’Healai at registration. If you have any queries, please contact Erika by email at erika.ohealai@gmail.com.

Club Bank Details:

BIC: BOFIIE2D

IBAN: IE09 BOFI 9045 8769 6990 75

Reference: Your child’s name

If you wish to order a number of the same item, please write the number in the box provided and calculate the required figure.

Order Delivery

To keep costs as low as possible we plan to place orders on a bulk basis. As a result, the length of time before you receive your items may vary. We will be able to give you an indication of waiting time when you are placing your order. Once items arrive they will be distributed at the end of the training session. Please allow up to 6 – 8 weeks for delivery.

Item	Order Size	Qty	Cost	Total
Racing vest	Age 5 – 6		€20
	Age 7 – 8		€20
	Age 9 – 10		€20
	Age 10 – 11		€20
	Age 13 – 14		€25
Half-zip tops	Age 5 – 6		€31.50
	Age 7 – 8		€31.50
	Age 9 – 10		€31.50
	Age 10 – 11		€31.50
	Age 13 – 14		€38.50
	Adult sizes
	Small		€41.50
	Medium		€41.50
	Large		€41.50
	Xlarge		€41.50
	XXLarge		€41.50
			TOTAL

Date:  ___________________________________________________________  

Child/ren’s name(s):  _______________________________________________

Parent’s Name and phone number:  ___________________________________________________

Code of Conduct Athletes

You are entitled to:

• Have fun and enjoy being a member of Clongriffin A.C.
• Be listened and have your voice heard
• Be treated with dignity and respect
• Be safe and to feel safe
• Participate on an equal and inclusive basis
• Experience competition/training at a level at which you are happy
• Make complaints and have them dealt with
• Get help against those who are bully
• Say No
• Privacy and confidentiality

You should always:

• Be respectful and listen to your coach and club officers
• Treat your club mates with respect and be inclusive
• Be fair and act responsibly
• Try your best
• Respect your competition and be gracious in defeat
• Abide by the rules as set out by the group or team you are with

You should never:

• Intimidate, use physical contact that is not welcome
• Shout at or argue with another person unreasonably
• Cause harm to or damage property
• Bully or threaten another person online or offline
• Spread or circulate rumours online or offline about another person
• Tell lies

Back To Training

The long wait for athletics training is over as we held our first session last Wednesday in Fr Collins Park. 73 enthusiastic kids and 11 coaches worked in their age group pods with a focus on ‘fun and keep them moving‘.

Lots of new drills, ideas and games were added to the session menu by the coaches including Long Jump Relay, Alien Tag, Pursuit Relay, Noodle Chase and variations on the old favourite, The Obstacle Course.

NDA Challenge

This Sunday sees the first version of our NDA Competition. This is a friendly, internal club, multi-event team challenge.

For our first event we will start small and focus on athletes born in 2009 or older. The competition starts at 10am in Fr Collins Park on Sunday. The link to register and Covid Screening will be sent via the WhatsApp group.

Events in the competition this week will be:

• 60m Sprint
• Overhead Medball Toss
• Long Jump
• Parlauf Relay

The following week, Sunday 9th May will see the 2010 & 2011 age group start their competition with all other ages added the following week, 16th May.

Competition, appropriate to the age of an athlete, is the DNA of athletics. As the country moves to the beginning of the end of the Covid pandemic, Clongriffin AC’s DNA Series looks to safely introduce competition to Juvenile athletes.

Principles Of The Series

• Quick & easy to host, ‘Jumpers For Goalposts’ concept;
• No cost or low cost for clubs;
• Localised competition – no need to travel far;
• Competition & scoring totally team based;
• All fundamental events in each ‘match’ – Run, Jump, Throw;
• Adaptable to Covid restrictions, Pod sizes, Intra Club initially, move to Inter Club.

Match Concept

• Hosted in a club’s normal training venue
• Teams of 6 – age & gender specific or mixed to meet the profile of your club
• Sample Events:
  • 60m sprint
  • Long Jump or Standing Jump or High Jump
  • Turbo Javelin or Ball Throw
  • Parlauf Relay
• Scoring – 4 pts available in each event, Team who wins an event get 3 pts, other Team 1pt, a tie means 2 pts each.
• The Team with the most points after 4 events, wins.

Covid Implications

• Phase I: Once Covid Restrictions allow clubs re-commence training in pods of 15, intra-club matches can take place. This will help clubs get used to the concept and get athletes back to enjoying athletics in a friendly competitive environment.
• Phase II: Once Covid Restrictions allow clubs re-commence competition, inter-club matches can take place, clubs arranging matches at each other’s venues at agreed times.

Match Events and Scoring

• Sprint:
  • Races of 6, 3 from each team. ‘Cross-country style’ scoring. Team with lowest points, wins the event.
• Throw:
  • All athletes throw 3 times with cones, markers used to measure their distance, no measure tapes. ‘Cross-country style’ scoring used to determine winning team.
• Jump:
  • Same concept as Throw except measuring tape may be required to measure distance.
• Parlauf Relay
  • All team members compete in a continous relay. Adapted to suit your venue, 6 member matches for example will have 5 changeover stations, 50m apart, with the relay continuing until each athlete has completed a certain number of runs.
  • Example, for u13 if you want each athlete to cover 400m, each athlete will do 8 runs.
• Events can be changed and added based on what the athletes enjoy the most or based on their feedback.

Interested In A Match

If your club is interested in a match once Covid restrictions allow, contact us on clongriffinathletics@gmail.com. We’ll be playing our home matches in Fr Collins Park in Clongriffin, Dublin 13.

Some good news in that Irish Athletics have confirmed national athletics fixtures for the season ahead. While this may change due to Covid, it does allow our local Dublin County Board set Dublin fixtures to align with these. This will mean the athletes will soon have some competition dates in their diaries.

For now its mainly National fixtures but more to follow:

29th & 30th May 2021: National Cross Country – this will be preceded by Dublin Championship, probably in early or mid-May.

17th, 18th & 24th July 2021: Dublin Track and Field Championships

7th & 8th August 2021: National Track and Field Championships (under 14 and older)

14th August 2021: National Track and Field Championships (under 12 and older)

21st & 22nd August 2021: National Children Games and Relays (under 9 and older)

These are all National and Dublin Championships. Once the country moved to Level 3 and we can revert to pods of 15, we will also commence with weekly ‘trial’ competitions within their pod groups for all our athletes.

Race Distance

Year of Birth	Distance
2014	400m
2013, 2012, 2011, 2010	800m
2009, 2008, 2007, 2006	1 Mile

Training Plan

400m

• Two sessions per week
• Session 1:
  • 15 minutes easy jog
• Session 2:
  • 8 x 100m ‘fast jog’ with 60 secs rest between each run.
    • 100m is approximately the length of a GAA or Soccer pitch

800m

• Three sessions per week
• Session 1:
  • 20 minutes easy jog
• Session 2:
  • 12 x 100m ‘fast jog’ with 60 secs rest between each run.
    • 100m is approximately the length of a GAA or Soccer pitch
• Session 3:
  • 6 x 1 minute ‘medium fast’ jog, 1 minute walking recovery between each run.

1 Mile

• Three sessions per week
• Session 1:
  • 20 minutes easy jog
• Session 2:
  • 12 x 100m ‘fast jog’ with 60 secs rest between each run.
    • 100m is approximately the length of a GAA or Soccer pitch
• Session 3:
  • 3 x 5 minutes of ‘medium fast’ jog with 2 minutes between each run, or
  • 8 x 1 minute ‘medium fast’ jog, 1 minute walking recovery between each run.
    • NB: only do one of these, if you have already done the 3×5 stick with that for this week but if not, try the 8×1

Race Distance

Year of Birth	Distance
2014	400m
2013, 2012, 2011, 2010	800m
2009, 2008, 2007, 2006	1 Mile

Training Plan

400m

• Two sessions per week
• Session 1:
  • 15 minutes easy jog
• Session 2:
  • 8 x 100m ‘fast jog’ with 60 secs rest between each run.
    • 100m is approximately the length of a GAA or Soccer pitch

800m

• Two sessions per week
• Session 1:
  • 20 minutes easy jog
• Session 2:
  • 12 x 100m ‘fast jog’ with 60 secs rest between each run.
    • 100m is approximately the length of a GAA or Soccer pitch

1 Mile

• Three sessions per week
• Session 1:
  • 20 minutes easy jog
• Session 2:
  • 12 x 100m ‘fast jog’ with 60 secs rest between each run.
    • 100m is approximately the length of a GAA or Soccer pitch
• Session 3:
  • 3 x 5 minutes of ‘medium fast’ jog with 2 minutes between each run