March Young Athlete Award
The winner of the Dungarvan Credit Union sponsored young athlete of the month award for March is Ferrybank runner Kalyn Sheehan. In a very busy month on the athletics circuit Kalyn had to fight off a very strong challenge from several other top performers who included David McCarthy, Kate Kirwan, Gary Dunphy, Dayle Kennedy, Conor McGrath, Sinead Donnelly and Sonia Kennedy. During the month Kalyn won 3 gold medals at the national indoor championships Under 15 (60mtr Hurdles, 9.28s record; 60mtr Sprint, 8.07s; Long jump, 5.08mtr in a PB). At the Scottish Indoor Championships she finished 2nd in the 60mtr hurdles, 9.32s; 2nd in the Long jump, 4.89mtr; and 3rd in the 200 metres, 26.94s in a PB. Kalyn has now made it a hat-trick of monthly awards having already won the January and Febuary awards. We wish Kalyn and all our young athletes in the county continued success.

Kalyn Sheehan receiving the Dungarvan Credit Union Juvenile Athlete Sportstar award for both February and March 2003 from Ray Moore, Promotions Committee, DCU. also included is Kalyn's father, Paul. As Kalyn also won the January award, this makes it three months in a row for the Ferrybank Athlete.
Photo; Sean Byrne.