7 February 2025

Stars of Track and Field

28 January 2025

Mr. Shay Keenan started the tradition years ago: circulate amongst the classrooms and plead, harangue and bribe as many students as possible to sign up for the latest ‘Track and Field’ event. And now Mr. Smith, Mr. Weldon and Daniel Stack are continuing the not very selective, selection process: Experienced runners: welcome! Generally fit, average athletic kids: welcome! Able to walk on to the coach under your own power: welcome! So, participation is usually the name of the game. But at this year’s East Leinster X-Country Championships, well… the Conlethians were actually champions! We couldn’t even re-use our old ‘valiant effort, moral victory’ article template! Because we actually won! First Year (Minor) Boys to be exact, with Johnny Clarke (2nd), Zach Farrell (3rd) and Tom Gormley (6th) all placing in the top ten! And the Second Year Boys took Silver in their race, with Charlie Murphy (3rd) and Marcus Kook (6th) leading the way. Perhaps they were inspired by our senior runners: Sixth Year Lochlann Hannon, who finished an impressive 7th (of 45) and newcomer Fifth Year Luc Ween and old warhorse Shane Carroll, who both finished in the top half of their races. Our girls ran well, too, with Second Year Tanya Plant and First Year Eleanor Hobbs, who led their teams to respectable finishes. A selective set of runners, indeed!

by Charles Latvis

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