The Munster Indoor Championship was held in Nenagh last weekend. Shane O’Dwyer competing in his last Juvenile Indoor Munster Championship was in brilliant form when he broke a ten year High Jump record with a clearance of 1.94m.In the competition jumping started at a height of 1.50m.
Shane and PJ Galvin St. Brendans AC started serious jumping at 1.75m when all the other competitors in the event had finished jumping. Shane and PJ cleared the first three heights on their first attempts, at 1.90m Shane Cleared first time with PJ clearing on the second attempt. 
It became very exciting when the bar was raised to 1.94m a new record height for the Championship. This brought all the spectators to their feet with rapturous applause to help both competitors try to achieve the new record.
Both lads failed to clear on their first two attempts with Shane clearing the height on his third attempt and setting a new Championship record.
It was a great help to have another competitor of equal standard competing with him. In the past few weeks Shane has cleared 1.95m in competition, with a 2m height well within his capability.
Next weekend he will travel to Glasgow to the Scottish Indoor Championship where his dream might be achieved.
Darren Prout U.15 had a great Championship when he finished second in the 60m Hurdles and third in the Long Jump with a PB Jump of 5.19m. Darragh Shelly finished fourth in the 60m Hurdles.
In the Boys U.15 relay with a team of Darragh Shelly, Darren Prout, Conor Shelly and Michael Dineen finished third.
In Girls U.15 Leanne Prout was third in the Long Jump with a PB Jump of 4.56m.  In the 60m Sprint Leanne and Sinead Cosgrave reached their semi-finals. In the 60m Hurdles Kelly-Ann Doyle and Sinead Cosgrave both made the final with Kelly-Ann finishing fourth.
In the relay U.15 our girls team of Kelly-Ann Doyle, Leanne Prout, Rebecca Kelly and Sinead Cosgrave were fourth overall.
In the girls U.14 Rebecca Kelly had a good run in the 60m Sprint where she was unlucky not to make the final, Rebecca competing in the 60m Hurdles had a good run when she reached the final.
In the Girls U.16 Sinead Curry was second in the 1500m walk, where she always up with the leaders in what was a very competitive race. Eimear Bartley finished fourth and the shot putt with a throw of 9.15m. Shauna Dunphy had good runs in the 800m and 1500m finals. Hannah Dalton won her 200m heat and finished fifth overall. In the Long Jump Emily Walsh had a new PB jump of 4.30m and also finished sixth in the 60m Hurdles.
The U.16 relay team of Zoe Lynch, Hannah Dalton, Leanne Prout and Shauna Dunphy were third in their heat.

 At the Munster Championship for U.9 to U.13 age groups there were bronze medals for Aoife Doyle and Ciara Flaherty in the High Jump where they were joint third with a clearance of 1.10m. In the 60m Sprint both Aoife won her heat and semi-final and Ciara was second in her heat and semi-final and both were unlucky to be out of the medals in the final. Ciara reached the final of her Long Jump with a PB jump of 3.45m.
In the U.12 Girls relay with a team of Alice Browning, Aoife Doyle, Lauryn McCauley and Ciara Flaherty were third in their heat. In the Girls U.11 Long Jump Alexandra Lapiy finished fifth with a jump of 3.34m and Caitlin Twomey finished eighth with a jump of 3.20m in their final.
In the Boys U.12 Oran Brophy had a PB jump in the Long Jump of 3.83m finishing sixth in an event where there was a hundred competitors and he also had a PB jump in the High Jump of 1.10m. Jake Vermeer had a good run in the 60m Sprint where he reached the semi-Final.  In the Boys U.12 relay their team of Cian Kinsella, Jake Vermeer, Thomas Parle and Oran Brophy were third in their heat.
Rhian Lowndes was fifth in the shot putt with a throw of 6.60m. The Championship was a great experience for our young competitors most of them were competing indoor for the first time.