Loreto Letterkenny’s Erin Friel has struck gold at the All-Ireland Schools Championships.
She stormed to victory in the Senior Girls’ 400m race yesterday in a time of 54.59 seconds.
Friel was pushed all the way to the line by Presentation College Carlow’s Sofia Granjo who finished just a tenth of a second behind her.
That run caps off her time competing for Loreto, as she gets ready to don the colours of Florida State University as she will begin an atletics scholarship there in the autumn.
Erin’s international athletics career is also well underway before she hits the track in the US.
She won a bronze medal winner at the European Youth Olympic Festival last year, and earlier month made her senior Irish international debut at the World Athletics Relays in the Bahamas.