{"id":7663,"date":"2016-09-09T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/?p=7663"},"modified":"2016-10-03T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:33:12","slug":"ennis-track-club-agm-friday-9th-september-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/ennis-track-club-agm-friday-9th-september-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ennis Track Club AGM Friday 9th September, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
Apologies: Siobhan Lennon, Suzanne Deane, Karen Doyle, Vincent Healy, Brian Murphy, Therese Lahiffe, Pat Hogan, David Courtney.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n Joan opened the meeting by welcoming everyone, thanking all the volunteers for their help and asking Gerry Hayes, as President, to say a few words.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alex Conway:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Alex trains the sprint squad. They are a small squad of 5 or 6 people but are very successful. Tony Odobuto is the National 400m champion. He is also the captain of the National Schools Squad. This year Alex is hopeful that Tony could win his first international competition. Apart from Tony, Shaun Benson and Chisum are also promising athletes coming through. The under 17 team won the 4 x 100m National Relay and set a new National Record. Gabriel won the All Ireland B\u2019s and set a new National Record. Alex is also working on upgrading coaching skills with coaches in the club.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dave Lyons<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Dave and Mary took over the 11 to 13 year old squad this time last year. It has been a difficult year. It took a while to get to know the runners and their parents, to gain trust and form a bond. But this is happening now. Rian McHugh joined Mary and Dave during the year. Dave pointed out that Mary went to every competition with the kids last year and that this should be acknowledged, as these are stressful, difficult days.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gerry Hayes<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Gerry coaches the seniors. He paid tribute to the Master athletes, Mike Clune, Sean Whelan, Mary Cahill, who competed in National competitions during the year. Sean Whelan won the over 65\u2019s in the Dublin City Marathon and won a silver medal in the National over 65\u2019s 5k. Mike also medalled and Mary set 2 PB\u2019s during the year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He said that there was a Track and Field workshop held at Easter, which was a fun event for kids, involving hurdles, javelin etc. The kids enjoyed it and Gerry stressed that it is important that they continue to enjoy their training.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gerry said that Rian is a great addition to the club, from a coaching perspective and that she is a great help with the sprinters if Alex is not around. He said that the club is very healthy from a coaching perspective and that we need more help on the fundraising side. He said that it is great to see the improvement in the kids and thanked everyone for giving their time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joan said that there are now 40 kids training in Flannans some evenings, compared to one or two ten years ago. Last year there were 327 registered members.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Katie got emails from Karen Leyden and Suzanne Deane, who couldn\u2019t attend the AGM. Karen Leyden is travelling with work. They acknowledged the work of the coaches, and offered help in future. They had a few suggestions in their emails, namely that a separate juvenile committee be formed, that income taken in from the juvenile section of the club be kept for the juveniles, and that parents should receive an explanation of the training that their kids were receiving. Ita stated that they are already being informed of this and that she has sent home letters on numerous occasions explaining this. Joe Deasy offered to respond to Karen and Suzanne, and explain this to them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joan sympathised with club member, Margaret Ryan, on the death of her father.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n *The following people are to supply results to Margaret: Brian Murphy – Seniors, Mary Cahill and Dave Lyons \u2013 10 to 13year olds, Lorraine Hayes and Siobhan Lennon \u2013 7 to 10 year olds, Alex \u2013 sprint squad, Marie Roche and Ita Hanrahan \u2013 14 to 19 year olds. Michael O\u2019Brien and Tom Micks will do the photography at events.<\/p>\n Brian Murphy updates the Ennis Track Facebook page with Senior results. Dave Lyons will send him on the juvenile results. No juvenile photos to go up on Facebook.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apologies: Siobhan Lennon, Suzanne Deane, Karen Doyle, Vincent Healy, Brian Murphy, Therese Lahiffe, Pat Hogan, David Courtney. Joan opened the meeting by welcoming everyone, thanking all the volunteers for their help and asking Gerry Hayes, as President, to say a few words. \u00a0 Gerry said that in the club\u2019s twenty five year history, this was the biggest attendance he had seen at a meeting. He thanked the officers, particularly Vera, who has been there since day one. He said that things have changed a lot in twenty five years, especially…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":7664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n Officer:<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n Proposed<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n Seconded<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n President<\/td>\n Gerry Hayes<\/td>\n Hilda O\u2019Connor<\/td>\n Tom Micks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Chairperson<\/td>\n Joan Markham<\/td>\n Ita Hanrahan<\/td>\n Marie Roche<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Vice Chairperson<\/td>\n Fergal McGrath<\/td>\n Vera Dullaghan<\/td>\n Hilda O\u2019Connor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Secretary<\/td>\n Dave Lyons<\/td>\n Ita Hanrahan<\/td>\n Mary Cahill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Assistant Secretary<\/td>\n Marie Roche<\/td>\n Joan Markham<\/td>\n Gerry Hayes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Treasurer<\/td>\n Vera Dullaghan<\/td>\n Joan Markham<\/td>\n Ita Hanrahan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Assistant treasurer<\/td>\n Karen Frawley<\/td>\n Ita Hanrahan<\/td>\n Joe Deasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Registrar<\/td>\n Ita Hanrahan<\/td>\n Joan Markham<\/td>\n Hilda O\u2019Connor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Assistant Registrar<\/td>\n Carol Reddy<\/td>\n Marie Roche<\/td>\n Siobhan Gallagher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Competition Secretary<\/td>\n Martin Hayes<\/td>\n Vera Dullaghan<\/td>\n Michael O\u2019Brien<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Senior Competition Secretary<\/td>\n Brian Murphy<\/td>\n Gerry Hayes<\/td>\n Deirdre Cahill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Child Welfare Officer<\/td>\n Siobhan Gallagher<\/td>\n Gerry Hayes<\/td>\n Vera Dullaghan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n Joe Deasy<\/td>\n Hilda O\u2019Connor<\/td>\n Marie Roche<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n P.R.O.<\/td>\n Margaret Ryan*<\/td>\n Gerry Hayes<\/td>\n Michael O\u2019Brien<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n
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