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The Winner of the Best Primary School Sports Boy was Noah McGuire, Scoil an Chaisil, Gleann Cholm Cille. Noah was a Cumann na mBunscoil Championship Medal winner and was also crowned South Donegal Cross Country Primary Schools Champion. Noah was also rewarded for his Mini Sevens performances by featuring at Croke Park.He also excelled at basketball and was the overall primary schools skills champion for 2023 in the finals in Convoy where he came out on top against 30 other boys.
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The Winner was Jasmine Barrett Doherty, Scoil Mhuire, Milford. Jasmine excelled in schools competitions as well as for her club, Finn Valley A/C. Over the past year, while competing for Scoil Mhuire Jasmine has won Gold at both Milford A/C’s Primary Schools Cross Country and at the School’s County Finals in Buncrana. And the successes kept on coming as Jasmine won the 600M and High Jump at the Schools Track and Field County Finals. So a total of seven Gold Medals, showing just how outstanding an athlete Jasmine is. Jasmine is an inspiration also to her classmates, always encouraging those around her in everything they do.
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The Winner of the 2023 Best Sports Boy at Secondary School level wasOdhran McBrearty, St. Columba’s College, StranorlarOdhran has enjoyed a fantastic run of form over the last year primarily in athletics. Undoubtedly the highlight was winning the All Ireland 1500m Junior Boys schools title in June in Tullamore. Odhran’s good form has continued into 2024 as just a fortnight ago he was a silver medal winner on his debut at the Celtic International competition in Glasgow as a member of the Irish U17 Cross-Country team.
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The Winner of the 2023 Best Sports Girl at Secondary School level was Keri Loughrey. The highlight of 2023 for Keri was captaining the Scoil Mhuire Senior Girls to the All-Ireland Soccer title. It’s some achievement to skipper your school to back-to-back All-Ireland titles. She did that first with the Scoil Mhuire U17s in 2022. It’s the third time that a Loughrey family member has won an Award here. Keri’s sister Jodie won the Best Sports Girl Primary School Award in 2018 and last year she was also honoured with a Junior Award after captaining the Republic of Ireland U17s.