Castletroy College

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Location
Castletroy College

Newtown, Castletroy, County Limerick, Ireland
Information
Principal	Martin Wallace
Type	Secondary community school
Established	2000
Colours	Navy, teal
Homepage	http://www.castletroycollege.ie/cc/

Castletroy College is a mixed community secondary school in Newtown, Castletroy, County Limerick, Ireland. It was founded in December 2000 and has over 100 rooms. It has over 1000 students.

1 Achievements
- 1.1 Sport
- 1.2 Other events
2 External links

[edit] Achievements

[edit] Sport

The school's girls' basketball team have won the Senior Munster Cup final four times in a row and the senior all Ireland three times in a row. The junior team have nearly equalled that record.

The school's girls' soccer team have been in over 6 All-Ireland finals, winning more than half of them. They have been in 8 Munster finals, and won 6. They have had 7 players compete at Irish level, and most of the team compete at Munster and county level.

In March 2008, Castletroy won both Munster Schools rugby premier competitions, the Munster Schools Junior Cup and the Munster Schools Senior Cup. In the Junior Cup, they beat PBC and in the Senior Cup, they beat CBC

Famed Limerick hurler Paudie Fitzmaurice currently teaches at the school.

[edit] Other events

In 2004, Castletroy pupils Aisling O'Brien and Naomi Guerin won the regional "Young Chef of the Future" awards. In the same year, Patrick Collison, a student of the school won second prize at the EsatBT Young Scientist of the Year Awards. The following year, he won the overall prize. Another student from the same college, Galin Ganchev, won twice the Irish Maths Olympiad and the Fergus Gaines Cup [1](2006 & 2008), silver medals at the 5th European Union Science Olympiad (2007) and the Irish EU Science Olympiad (2007)[2], a silver medal at the Balkan Maths Olympiad (2008)[3], and is also a co-winner of the PRISM Irish National Maths Contest (2007)[4].