Athletics

This year St Patrick’s athletics team had an excellent day in Greystones at the Wicklow Primary Schools’ Track & Field Championships. Everyone behaved brilliantly and gave every event their very best effort. Our athletes had been training very hard in preparation for these championships in recent weeks and everyone had a great day. Stand out performances included:

Girls 3rd class relay team (Amelia, Caia, Ellie, Millie)

Girls 5th+6th tug-of-war (Kate, Malu, Aoife, Maria, Ciara, Katie M, Ramona, Zara, Katie E, Margo)

Ellie Duffy 3rd class girls javelin

Amelia Debowska 3rd class girls sprint

Kristofers Scheaffrs 3rd class boys javelin

Maria Vialacorta 5th class girls javelin

Luke Connolly 5th class boys distance

Josh Murphy 5th class boys javelin

Bruno Tejada 6th class boys javelin

Boys 5th class relay team (James, Alessio, Daniel, Ryan)

Boys 3rd+4th class tug-of-war (Brendan, Ryan, James, Matthew, Paul S, Freddy K, Jamie N, MJ, Aron McG)

Brendan Baines 3rd class boys sprint

James Connolly 5th class boys distance

Maia Pietrek 5th class girls sprint

Very well done to everyone on the team for being very well behaved and for representing the school with distinction. A big thank you to the parents of Freddy (4th class) who helped in the running of the events this year. All the team in Greystones sincerely appreciated their help. Míle buíochas also to Mr Hehir, Mr Corcoran and Christina for preparing the athletics team for these championships and for managing the team in Greystones on race day.