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Okay, so today was the first day of the West Leinster Schools Athletics competition in Santry. This is an annual event that takes place just before or just after the Easter holidays every year, depending on when Easter falls.
Our school always tends to do exceptionally well at this event. There is a great demand for athletics in our school and so we never have trouble trying to find numbers for different events. In actual fact, there is so much demand that we tend to have to take part in trials for some of the events.
In Santry, you can only take part in a maximum of two events and a relay. This rule is there to allow a variety of people to enter each race or field event.
We took off this morning on the bus at around nine o'clock. The weather was nice so it was looking to be a good day. It was a good day. Actually, it was a brilliant day. We brought home seventeen medals, a mixture of first, second and third place. Lots of the girls finished in the top six for many races and field events which means they get points for our school. The first place gets six points and the sixth place gets one point. Regardless of how many points you get for the school, every point is a contribution towards the overall trophy which St.Wolstan's proudly claimed last year.
Mount Sackville had won this trophy for the "overall best girls school" for the past nine. St Wolstan's didn't let them take it for a tenth year! We are aiming to win the trophy again this year and so far everything is going good for us. We will know on Thursday who wins the trophy.
We got back to the school this afternoon at about quarter past three. Every single one of us was absolutely exhausted after a long day in the warm sun. None of us had books or uniforms so we didn't have to go back to our last class if we didn't want to. Instead, we all went into the hall and lay on the high jump mats. Some of us even went as far as falling asleep for the forty minutes we had before school ended!
Overall, it was a fun, enjoyable and successful day out in Santry. A big thank you to all the teachers who gave up their time for training us for different events and especially to the two p.e teachers who trained us for events, accompanied us today and will accompany us on Thursday.

Morton Stadium Santry

Niamh! :D

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