Luke O Carroll and Cillian Griffin in their Irish Singlets

Cillian Griffin, Luke O Carroll, Oisin Spillane, Basit Oyebanji, Mervyn Shalemba, Aaron Malik

2018 Track and Field Results and Pictures

In the 2017 -2018 season, students from Mercy Mounthawk have won 45 medals at Provincial and National levels. Our Intermediate boys 4 x 100 m relay team has been invited to represent Munster in the prestigious Tailteann Irish School’s Interprovincial at Morton Stadium, Santry on Saturday 23rd June 2018. Basit Oyebanji has been invited to be part of the 4 x 400m squad and the 400 m sprint, Mervyn Shalemba has been invited to represent his province in the 200 m, Cillian Griffin has been invited to compete in the 100m and Luke O Carroll has been invited to represent Munster in the long jump. Well done to all on a fantastic year of running, throwing and jumping.

All Irelands

Venue: Tullamore Harriers
Date: 02/06/18

Major Achievements

Intermediate Boys broke the national 4x100m relay record with a time of 43.19

Gold Medallists

• Mervyn Shalemba (relay)
• Luke O Carroll (relay)
• Basit Oyebanji (relay)
• Cillian Griffin (relay)

Bronze Medallists

• Cillian Griffin (100m)
• Mervyn Shalemba (200m)
• Darragh Courtney (High Jump)
• Diana Nagle (Relay)
• Rachel Bowler (Relay)
• Orla O Reilly (Relay)
• Ciara McCarthy (Relay)

Basit Oyebanji, Cillian Griffin, Mervyn Shalemba, Luke O Carroll

North Munster

Venue: An Riocht Castleisland
Date: 08/05/18 & 10/05/18

• 24 Gold Medals
• 22 Silver Medals
• 23 Bronze Medals

2018 Cross Country Results

Munster

Venue: W.I.T
Date: 23/02/18

Individual Medals: 

• Oisin Spillane (4th) – Intermediate Boys

North Munster

Venue: Pallaskenry
Date: 25/01/18

Individual Qualifiers: 

• Coren Hughes (4^th) –Minor Boys
• Liam Carmody (11^th) –Minor Boys
• Eabha Murphy (15^th) –Junior Girls
• Oisin Spillane (3^rd) –Intermediate Boys
• Sean Brosnan (11^th) –Intermediate Boys

Team Qualifiers

• Junior Boys 1st

Kerry

Venue: Killarney
Date: 18/01/18

Mercy Mounthawk’s Cross Country team had remarkable success this academic year. Almost five hundred athletes from Kerry and West Limerick took part in this year’s Kerry Schools Cross Country Championship. Mounthawk athletes showed great determination and capability on the day with Mounthawk being presented with the Morkham Shield for Best Girls School and our boys’ team came runner up for Best Boys School.

Individual Medals: 

• Gillian Lane
• Coren Hughes
• Oisin Spillane

Team Medals: 

• Minor Girls (3^rd)
• Minor Boys (3^rd)
• Junior Girls (1^st)
• Intermediate Girls (3^rd)
• Intermediate Boys (1^st)
• Senior Girls (1^st)
• Senior Boys (3^rd)

Aoife O’Carroll, Rachel Bowler, Lauren O Grady, Aoibheann O’Brien, Orla O’Reilly

2016 Track and Field Results 

All Irelands

Venue: Tullamore Harriers Club
Date: 03/06/16

Major Achievements

• Mervyn Shalemba broke the Minor Boys 100m Sprint Record with a time of 11.44 sec.
• Minor Boys broke relay record with a time of 48.14 sec.
• Minor Boys won best overall school in Ireland

Gold Medallists

• Mervyn Shalemba (100m, Relay)
• Jamie O Brien (Relay)
• Damien Doherty (Relay)
• Daniel Bowler (Relay)
• Aaron Malik (Relay)
• Basit Oyebanji (Relay)
• Luke O Carroll (Relay)
• Cillian Griffen (Relay)

Bronze Medallists

• Jamie O Brien (75m Hurdles)

100m Sprint -Mervyn Shalemba

Lauren O Grady

Senior Girls Relay Team

2017 Cross Country Results and Pictures

Munster

Venue: Cork Institute of Technology
Date: 16/02/17

Individual Medals

• Tim Pollman-Daamen (4^th) – Junior Boys
• Sean Pollman-Daamen (6^th) – Junior Boys

Team Medals:

• Junior Boys (3^rd)

North Munster

Venue: Pallaskenry
Date: 26/01/17

Individual Qualifiers

• Alison Lane (15^th) – Minor Girls
• Eddie McCarthy (8^th) –Minor Boys
• Tim Pollman-Daamen (1^st) –Junior Boys
• Sean Pollman-Daamen (3^rd) –Junior Boys
• Sean Brosnan (9^th) –Junior Boys
• Rory Murphy (7^th) –Intermediate Boys
• Oisin Spillane (10th) – Intermediate Boys
• Diarmuid O Connor (10th) – Senior Boys

Team Medals

• Junior Boys (1st)

The Full Squad

The Munster Squad

2016 Cross Country Results and Pictures

Munster

Venue: Cork Institute of Technology
Date: 11/02/16

Individual Results: 

• Cillian Tierney (5th) – Senior Boys

North Munster

Venue: Pallaskenry
Date: 28/01/16

Individual Qualifiers

• Erin O Halloran (6th) – Minor Girls
• Grace Starett (9^th) – Minor Girls
• Jamie O Brien (8^th) – Minor Boys
• Adam Curran (15^th) – Minor Boys
• Meabh McElligott (13^th) – Junior Girls
• Ciara McCarthy (14^th) – Junior Girls
• Fiona Kavanagh (7^th) – Senior Girls
• Diana Nagle (8^th) – Senior Girls
• Arianne Finnegan (11^th) – Senior Girls
• Cillian Tierney (4^th) – Senior Boys
• Sean Collins (13^th) – Senior Boys

Team Qualifiers

• Minor Girls (3^rd)
• Minor Boys (2^nd)
• Junior Girls (2^nd)
• Senior Girls (2^nd)
• Senior Boys (2^nd)