Garden County Academy Football News

November 17, 2014

GCA Football News

U13- Our U13 squad have finished activities for the 2014 season. Watch this space in the New Year for news of the 2015 schedule.

U14- The 14's sampled what lies ahead of them on Saturday morning as they were exposed to both university life and elite performance on the DCU campus in Glasnevin. The day started with breakfast followed by a tour of the campus. The tour included all of DCU state of the art high performance equipment.
The next section saw all Ireland winner Dean Rock give an excellent insight into the lifestyle of inter county player. While also mapping out his on individual pathway from 14yr old club player to 24 yr old All Ireland champion.
Othre quality talks were given from DCU and former Donegal senior coach, Joe McBrierty, as well as nutrition and academic talks from DCU's football programme.
The day finished up with an excellent football session taken by Joe on DCU's superb 3G pitch. The day was well received by the players and will act as another tool in focussing the thoughts of future Wicklow footballers

U15- The U15's were in the gym last Saturday, 15th Nov., completing week 3 of their latest programme. The players are showing some great improvements under the guidance of S&C coaches Conor Parsons and Dave Burke.

U16- The U16 squad are also working hard with the S&C coaches & are now halfway through their current training block. They look forward to a visit to DCU campus on the Sat 29th Nov.


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