A full house turned out in Athlone this evening to witness a fantastic night’s athletics which saw three new stadium records and the star attractions Ashton Eaton, Brianne Theisen-Eaton and Tabarie Henry live up to their reputations. The Olympic decathlon gold medalist and world champion, Eaton, won the 60m in a new stadium record at
World’s “Best Athlete” to Compete in AIT International Arena Grand Prix Olympic gold medalist, Ashton Eaton, heads international field competing in Athlone on 26 February Ashton Eaton, the Olympic decathlon champion and world record holder, is the headliner at the AIT International Arena Grand Prix on 26 February. The 26-year-old, who was dubbed “the best
AIT First XV played their final match of the Super 6 and beat Cork I.T. by 50-17. Having won all the matches in the round robin stage AIT finished top of the table and have earned a home semi-final against the team that eventually finishes fourth. There are a couple of matches left before the
Our Freshers hurlers defeated GMIT in a thrilling game of hurling played in tough conditions in Carnmore Galway on Thursday afternoon. AIT started the game at a blistering pace with Andrew Moran from Loughrea scoring 1-02, GMIT responded well and took the lead mid-way through the first half but AIT were inspired by Wicklowman Gavin
Both the AIT women’s and men’s soccer teams had notable success today as they qualified for finals. First in action were the men who overcame a good IT Tallaght team on a 3-1 scoreline in the Umbro CFAI Cup Semi Final. The lads started slowly and fell a goal behind on 19 minutes. However by
AIT 1st XV 62 v DCU 1st XV 0 Match Report by Kevin O’Sullivan After the dreadful weather of the past few weeks it was a relief that the first team game away to DCU was played and the pitch was in good condition although the teams had to contend with a very strong wind
AIT Mens Volleyball Results UCC 3-0 AIT AIT 1-2 Trinity Basketball Results Monday 10th Feb Womens GMIT 45 v AIT 31 Mens GMIT 37 v AIT 70 AIT Womens Challenge Cup Quarter Final AIT 5-2 DCU Goals: Grace Reilly (4) Aisling Cosgrove Soccer Tuesday 11th February CUFL Regional Futsal Venue: IT Sligo Wednesday 12th February
AIT to host 2014 Colleges FAI Finals For the first time since 2003 AIT will be hosting the Umbro Colleges FAI finals. Four colleges finals will be held in Athlone on the 3rd and 4th of March. Athlone Town Stadium will host the Umbro CFAI Senior Cup final and at present the AIT first team
Twelve Indoor Athletics Intervarsity records were broken at the AIT International Arena last Friday. Two stadium records also fell as Cathriona Farrell improved her best at AIT from 1.80m to 1.81m in the High Jump and Ian Rodgers jumped 4.70m in the Pole Vault. (The full list of IUAA records recorded are listed at the
>Congrats to our womens Volleyball and Soccer teams who had great victories earlier this week. AIT Womens Volleyball beat Griffith College Dublin 3-0, set scores 25-12, 25-13, 25-20 AIT Womens Soccer beat DCU 5-2 in the Challenge Cup Quarter final. They now have a home tie against IT Tralee in the Semi Final.
Six AIT Arena records tumbled at the AI Open Indoor Games at AIT this past weekend. Mark English took centre stage with a new national senior and U-23 indoor record of 1:46:82 in the 800m as he came home second to Thijem Kupers of The Netherlands who ran a new stadium best of 1:46:78. Other
It was a mixed day for AIT yesterday the 28th of January with some big fixtures down for decision. The headline event was the Sigerson 1st round clash with UCD here on compus at 5pm. A large crowd was treated to a very competitive game which UCD won on a Scireline of 0-17 to AITs
