Ciara Deely (Kilkenny)
Loreto Kilkenny made it an eighth consecutive win at the Loreto Schools Track and Field Championships held in Santry today.
Big points scorer for Kilkenny was Ciara Deely winner of the senior 80m hurdles and 2nd in the high jump and anchor woman of the winning 4 x 100m team. All the first year members of the squad made their contribution by finishing in the top six of every event.
Loreto Mullingar made quite an impression on the track, with Maimouna Fane winning the senior 200m and her younger sister Awa the 100m, while in gut-busting senior 1500m, Claire Fagan inched out her team mate Alanna Bate. In the junior 800m, Caoimhe O’Brien of Mullingar passed Kilkenny’s Ciara O’Keeffe with the line in sight for victory; Amy McCabe of Beaufort was third. There was another victory for Mullingar in the senior 800m won by Laura Whitelaw, with Kilkenny’s Annie O’Connor second and Richael Browne of Bray third.
Winning an exciting junior 200m was Orla Winston of Loreto Clonmel, who just made i
t home ahead of Wexford pair April Keeling and Leah Dwyer.
A clear winner of the senior 400m was Mollie O’Reilly of Loreto Dalkey. Enya Haigney of Loreto Omagh finished second ahead of Niamh McMullen from Kilkenny.
Making it a double in the junior discus and javelin was Eva O’Donoghue of Loreto Beaufort. Nicola Torrans of St Stephen’s Green was a close second in the discus, with Sinead O’Keeffe of Kilkenny second in the javelin.
Collecting the winning overall shield for Kilkenny was team captain Lauren Dermody. The Loreto competition has been going in some form since 1902, making it (probably) the oldest girls’ athletics competition in the country.
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A day earlier, close to seventy teams took part in the annual West Leinster Medley Relays at Santry
Boys – Minor: 1 Castlenock Community College, 2 Castleknock College, 3 Belvedere. Junior: 1 Belvedere, 2 Castleknock CC, 3 Terenure College. Inter: St Mac Dara’s, 2 Belvedere, 3 Terenure College. Senior: 1 Holy Family Rathcoole, 2 Templeogue, 3 Belvedere.
Girls – Minor: 1 Holy Family Rathcoole, 2 St Mac Dara’s, 3 St Peter’s Dunboyne. Junior: 1 Holy Family Rathcoole, 2 Mount Sackville, 3 Castleknock CC. Inter: 1 Castleknock CC, 2 Holy Family Rathcoole, 3 Castleknock CC. Senior: 1 St Josephs Lucan, 2 St Peter’s Dunboyne, 3 King’s Hospital.
Also on Wednesday, Ann-Marie McGlynn of Letterkenny ACÂ ran a fast time of 16 mins 17 secs to finish fifth overall and first woman at the Bay Road 5k in Derry.
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