Griffeen Valley TTC would like to congratulate Griffeen Valley ETNS on winning the U13 Boys Division 1 Primary Schools Shield 2016-2017.  It's a fantastic achievement for the school to win two years in a row the  Leinster Schools League.

Congratulations also to the girls who were Division 1 runners up  for the second year..  They were unbeaten in the league, drawing only one match to the eventual winners.  They lost out on the Shield by only 1 point!

The boys team was made up of  Bence, Masem Tim &  Alex) - all club members.

The girls team was made up of Anna, Mia, Rose & Sadbh (Anna & Sadbh both club members)

The boys team will go on to represent Leinster in the All Ireland Primary Schools event at the Baskeball Arena..

In the Leinster Schools Cup, the boys were runners up and the girls took 3rd place.

Well done to both teams and their coach Philip Mc Laughlin.

Well done to Griffeen Valley Educate Together National School

Griffeen Valley TTC would like to congratulate Griffeen Valley ETNS on winning the U13 Boys Division 1 Primary Schools Shield 2016-2017.  It's a fantastic achievement for the school to win two years in a row the  Leinster Schools League.

Congratulations also to the girls who were Division 1 runners up  for the second year..  They were unbeaten in the league, drawing only one match to the eventual winners.  They lost out on the Shield by only 1 point!

The boys team was made up of  Bence, Masem Tim &  Alex) - all club members.

The girls team was made up of Anna, Mia, Rose & Sadbh (Anna & Sadbh both club members)

The boys team will go on to represent Leinster in the All Ireland Primary Schools event at the Baskeball Arena..

In the Leinster Schools Cup, the boys were runners up and the girls took 3rd place.

Well done to both teams and their coach Philip Mc Laughlin.

More pictures from the All Ireland tournament here 

Boys Team with the Leinster Schools Shield

3rd place in All Ireland Primary Schools

Leinster takes gold in the Junior Interprovincials with some help from Griffeen Valley players

The junior interprovincials took place at DCU on April 16th.

At this event the top ranked Leinster players in each age category represent their province.  Art & Dillon were selected for the U13 boys team.  Mia was part of the U18 girls team and Sadbh made her interprovincial debut in the U13 girls team.

Full details of the event can be found here

Leinster came out winners and retained the Victor Barna Shield. Art didn't drop a set throughout the day and was awarded U13 player of the tournament.

More pictures from the day.

Leinster win the Barna Shield at Junior Interpros 2016 - Mia, Art, Dillon & Sadbh were part of the team.

Mia was presented with trophy for No. 1 ranking U15 girl 2015-2016

Art won U13 player of the tournament

Primary Schools International 2016, Guernsey

While the last Leinster ranking tournament was taking place, fellow club members Art & Dillon were representing Ireland at the Primary Schools International in Guernsey.

The team event started on Friday and the boys team which also included Thomas Joyce and Matthew Cherry had a fantastic tournament eventually taking the gold. The girls team made it a double win for Ireland.

In the singles event both Art and Dillon made it to the semi-finals with Art making it through to the final. He had to settle for silver losing 3-1 to English player Naphong Boomyaprapa.

Well done Art & Dillon!

Further details can be found here

Ireland Boys Team - 1st place

Boys Individual Event - Art 2nd, Dillon 3rd

Leinster season concludes for 2015-2016

For a number of our club players 2015-2016 was their first full season of Leinster competitions and each tournament brought improvement and great experience.

Over the season we have had Plate successes and some have moved closer to the finals!

In the Junior Masters on April 3rd/4th we had Adam, Sean, Kevin, Bence, Ciaran, Alex, Anna, Masem, Tim & Sadbh competing.  All had the chance to play a good few matches throughout the weekend.

On Saturday Tim played the U15 and gained some great experience for his first time in this age category.  He had a tough first group which included Alan Pattison, Paddy Vaughan and Orqo Hickey.

Sadbh & Anna played the U11 girls.  Anna finished in 4th position and Sadbh came 1st.

On Sunday we had a number taking part in the U13 boys and girls.  Alex played in the Plate semi-finals and Masem finished 7th.  Tim made it to the semi-final where he faced Tommy Nyugen (York Road TTC).  He lost to Tommy and played a very exciting 3rd/4th match against Gellert from Carlow losing 11-8 in the 5th set.

Sadbh played in her first U13 girls event this season and finished in 1st place doing the double!

Well done to all!

The Junior Interprovincials tournament takes place in DCU on the weekend of April 16th/17th April where the top junior players in Leinster will battle it out against the best of Connacht, Munster & Ulster to retain the shield.

Sadbh won U13 girls

Malacky Open, Slovakia

After a busy weekend at the Butterfly National Junior Championships, Art and Dillon traveled to Bratislava in Slovakia for a 4 day training camp where they trained with other players representing Germany, Czech Republic, Spain and Slovakia.

 

They then made the trip to Malacky to represent Ireland along with their team mates (David Taylor, Thomas Joyce, Natasya Barry & Nicole Scott) in this mini-cadet open.  It was a great experience for all with details about the tournament here

Dillon & Art with team mates Thomas Joyce & David Taylor - Coach Conn Higgins

Connacht Junior/Senior Open & Butterfly Junior National Championships

Butterfly Junior National Championships took place 5th/6th March in the NBA, Tallaght.

This was last National tournament of the 2015-2016 season.  Mia had a great double win in both the Cadet and Junior events.  Art came 3rd in the Cadet boys and 2nd in the U13 event after a 5 set thriller.  Dillon reached the U13 semi-final but lost to Thomas Joyce taking 3rd place.

Well done to Sadbh, Anna, Bence, Ciaran, Alex, Adam, Kevin, Tim, Joe & Paul who also took part. For some members it was their first National event.  More details on the event can be found here.

Photographs from the event

          

            

               

  

The Connacht Open took place in Breaffy, Mayo in February.

Mia had a great tournament winning the Cadet girls and the Senior women's singles!  She also won the mixed doubles senior event with Conor Mullally.

This was Tim's first National tournament and it was a great experience.  Art took 4th place in Cadet boys and Sadbh won the Hopes event.  More details about the tournament can be found here.