PICTURE SPECIAL: There was plenty of joy despite the miserable weather at times Sunday for the senior champs of Ireland at Santry.
It all began to come together for the Valley contingent right from the off.
Tori Pena left her training base Phoenix where it was 45 degrees to encounter a cold wet morning in Dublin anyhow came into the competition at 4m went clear then clear 4,15 m and it was win at that stage and with thoughts of Amsterdam clearly in her head it was time to wrap it up.
Job done – at the other end of stadium Sommer Lecky at 16 yrs old was going for gold in the high going clear at each height over at 1.71m title won a remarkable a noteworthy achievement for the young Castlederg girl first Tyrone female in the history of the sport to win a senior title now that’s a nice tag.
On an occasion such as this u reflect on her first day coming to Finn Valley 8 yrs old for school sports winning 60m race accompanied by her DAD.
John Kelly hit 15.25 to claim silver in the shot behind Sean Breathnach ,Galway and returns to competition this upcoming weekend in u 23 champs in which he plans to win a title.
Arlene Crossan had qualified Saturday for 400mH and now it was time to do the business .
Any attempt to win the title was gone early on as she executed the opening 20m poorly but did drive hard over final 150 to catch many and claim silver with a battling 150m the finish line popping up too soon really but great credit to Kelly Mc Grory, Tirconnaill on her first title back after an injury and ran an aggressive run.
Two Donegal athletes were racing for the line in the 800m Mark English successfully defending the title and Karl Griffin an encouraging 3rd and bound now for Europeans.
