Tipperary secondary school enjoys huge basketball success at county and regional level

Basketball season in CTI Clonmel is very much in full swing with six school teams currently in action.
The Under 16 boys’ team have reached the All-Ireland semi-final of the B competition which was played on Friday, February 7 in Dublin.

They won the regional final in an epic encounter with De La Salle Waterford at the end of November. They progressed from the play off stages by defeating Salesian College, Celbridge and Clonturk Community School, Dublin which was held in the   Moyle Rovers Complex in Monroe recently.

We are indebted to the Moyle Rovers club and Pat O’Connor in particular for facilitating our home matches.
The school Under 19 girls team reached the regional final for the first time which was played before Christmas. On the day they came up against a very strong team from county Carlow and despite a herculean effort, they were unable to get the upper hand on the day. Since then, the girls have qualified for the Munster final of the cup competition and are currently waiting on their opponents.

The first and second year girls’ and boys’ teams are in the early stages of their league campaigns with both the second year girls and boys unbeaten. Both first year teams are putting in a huge effort in training and they have shown great progression from the start of their leagues.

Most of the students on all the teams would not have played basketball before coming to CTI, so to see the level of success across all teams is truly remarkable. Great credit must be given to all the players who have shown great commitment to training all year. A special thank you to the coaches of the teams especially múinteoirí Síle, Bríd, Colm and coach Luke. We wish all the teams the very best of luck in all their upcoming fixtures.