On Saturday 1st February, On Saturday 1st February, the 2019 Munster Athletics Star Awards were held in the Tower Hotel, Waterford.
These awards honour the athletic achievements of Munster athletes across all ages and categories in the previous year.

WAC received 4 awards:
Emily O’Mahony & Aidan Burke for their outstanding achievements in Munster Juvenile Track & Field 2019.

Grace Furlong accepted the award on behalf of WAC, as the best Munster Senior and Junior Indoor club for 2019.

Fintan Walsh, WAC P.R.O., was the recipient of the Munster Hall of Fame award 2019. Fintan joined WAC in 1954 and had great success in middle distance and cross country, at county, provincial and national level up until 1968.
He was involved in the administration of athletics at County Board level, and has held the role of WAC PRO for many years.
Today we all continue to hear his love of athletics with his regular Sunday evening Athletics report on WLR, weekly local newspaper reports and of course his legendary commentaries at local races and events.

Well done to all our award recipients and all the WAC club members, coaches and volunteers who support the club and make these achievements possible..
These awards honour the athletic achievements of Munster athletes across all ages and categories in the previous year.

WAC received 4 awards:
Emily O’Mahony & Aidan Burke for their outstanding achievements in Munster Juvenile Track & Field 2019.

Grace Furlong accepted the award on behalf of WAC, as the best Munster Senior and Junior Indoor club for 2019.

Fintan Walsh, WAC P.R.O., was the recipient of the Munster Hall of Fame award 2019. Fintan joined WAC in 1954 and had great success in middle distance and cross country, at county, provincial and national level up until 1968.
He was involved in the administration of athletics at County Board level, and has held the role of WAC PRO for many years.
Today we all continue to hear his love of athletics with his regular Sunday evening Athletics report on WLR, weekly local newspaper reports and of course his legendary commentaries at local races and events.

Well done to all our award recipients and all the WAC club members, coaches and volunteers who support the club and make these achievements possible.

In the National Indoor Combined Events Championships which was held recently in AIT, our club member Nichola Hayes Tighe, set a new national record for over 40 women’s 60m hurdles with a time of 10.21 seconds. Congratulations from us all in WAC.

A good day for WAC athletes at the National Indoor Junior & U23 Championships today at Athlone I.T.

Grace Furlong – U23 Women – 1st in Triple Jump (12m 13cm), 2nd in Long Jump
Emily O’Mahony – Junior Women- 3rd in Triple Jump

James Murphy – 4th U23 Mens Long Jump
Eoin Kenny – 5th in the U23 Mens 400m in a new PB (51.21)

Well done also to Fergus O’Brien in the U23 Mens 1500m, Jamie McCarthy U23 Mens 800m and Lance Baylon in the U23 Mens 60m.

!!!!Half Marathon of the Year 2019 Winners !!!!

Waterford Athletic Club is delighted to learn that our half marathon was voted the best half in Ireland 🇮🇪 in the www.runninginireland.com awards. Running in Ireland

The award is most welcome, following the hard efforts of the race committee due to the route change etc in December 2019, and the committee of WAC would like to thank each and everyone whom voted for us, see you all in December 2020.

After a very long day at AIT, Athlone at the National Indoor Combined Events Championships our WAC athletes all had medal success.

Masters Men’s O50 – Paschal Halley gold medal and Tom O’Brien silver medal
Women’s O40-49 , Nichole Tighe gold medal

In the women’s Junior category Emily O’Mahony came away with the bronze medal.

Membership Registration for 2020 is now due.

Waterford AC will hold a registration night for Juvenile Membership on Tuesday 14th January, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm in the RSC, Cork Road, Waterford.

Registration forms will be available on the night OR can be downloaded from the WAC website in advance.

Senior Membership Registration can be renewed through the ‘Membership’ link on www.Waterfordac.com

NOTE: All athletes must be registered by 31st January.

Non-registration means you are not covered by insurance

Well done to the WAC athletes who took part in the Munster Indoor Championships – Junior and U23 and the Juvenile Penthatlon.

Eoin Kenny – gold in U23 400m
James Murphy – silver in U23 Long Jump
Sophie Crowley – silver in the Junior High Jump.

Well done also to Jack Corcoran and Cassandra Abullo.

Join us for one of Ireland’s oldest road races celebrating 50 years.

Athletics summer camp running for July 2nd – 6th in Tramore