James Neilly shows off the silver medal he won at Antrim Forum.


NEBSSA Athletics

Well done to Ryan Nesbitt, Jason Johnston, Matthew Kirk, David Woods, Paula Platore, Alana Duff and Rebecca Hill who competed in the NEBSSA Athletics Finals at the Antrim Forum on Wednesday 16th May.

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Indoor Athletics

A group of pupils participated in an indoor athletics tournament on 10th January in order to compete for a place in their relevant Co Antrim squads. They completed the shot put, high jump, long jump, vertical jump, triple jump and various indoor track events. Well done to Lauren McGall, Hannah McCleister and Jason Selfridge who have been selected for the U13 Co Antrim Indoor Athletics Squad. David Woods and Alana Duff have been selected for the U15 Squad, with Matthew Kirk a reserve.

They will now compete in the Ulster Indoor Athletics Tournament at the Meadowbank Sports Arena (Magherafelt) on the 8th of March.

Ulster Schools' Athletics

Promising 200m runner James Neilly of 10A2 represented the school at the Ulster Schools’ (District C) Athletics Championships at Antrim Forum on Wed 11 May. In spite of being up against some more experienced runners, James came away with a very creditable 2nd place and a silver medal in a time of 25.7 seconds.

James Neilly holds off two challengers in the finishing straight at the Ulster Schools 200m.