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Extraordinaryachievements for young sports people 
In the space of a few days, two talented sportspeople, one a past pupil  and the other a 6th class pupil of Bunscoil Rinn an Chabhlaigh Rushbrooke, served notice, that marks them out as outstanding prospects on the field of Sport. Sixteen year old Timmy Wilk lined out at no 7 on the Cork Minor hurling under 17 team which had an outstanding victory in the first round of the Minster championship defeating Clare by a massive 40 points. Lilly Frawley won a National ranking under 12 tennis tournament in Mayo and a few days later won the under 12 tournament in Carrigaline, in the process overcame the number 1, 2 and 3 ranked under 12 girls in Ireland. She showed huge resilience in all her games and her outstanding level of fitness stood in great stead in tight encounters. In her first game in Carrigaline she won 6-2 3-6 10-8 against the no 1 in Ireland. The 2nd match  7-6 7-5 and the final 7-5 7-5. Apart from attending the same primary school both showed early promise in their sporting careers. Timmy holds the school record for the 600m circuit in the school, excelled at the Cork Primary school Sports. Going on to great success in Community  Games, anchoring the Cobh mixed relay  team to bronze medals at the National Community Games finals at the National Sports Centre at Abbotstown. The team was completed by Brendan Joy now a top class soccer player. Eimear Diggin  a Sciath Ns Scoil winner in football and Camogie and Amy McKeown a fine athlete and Cobh Camogie Capt and world champion Irish step dancer.  Like Timmy all attended Bunscoil, where they did their fitness training regularly under my supervision. It has always been my priority to give young people the basic fitness level at primary school,  which acts as a solid base and stands very much to them as they progress through sport, no matter what sport they pursue.
FIRST POLISH YOUNG MAN ON THRE CORK HURLING TEAM
In Timmy's case when I watched him play hurling at  the school in the Mrs Casey cup I made a prediction that he would be the first Polish player on the Cork team. Being equally impressive at soccer rugby football and athletics where he won sprint and jump medals at Munster and National level running with Ballymore-Cobh AC. Transferring to Midleton CBS he captained the under 15 hurling team to win the Rice cup Munster  title. Olympic athlete Liam O'Brien, was hugely impressed with his athletic ability and recruited him for the school relay team. Lilly on the other and incidentally her mother Magda is a Polish National, is showing huge potential as an athlete and tennis player.  She featured on a National video to promote the Daily Mile" for primary schools and in very windy conditions at Haulbowline she ran a mile in 6.08 at her ease. As well as acknowledging the role their schools and clubs play, the support of their families is vital and both are so fortunate to have that. We will keep you our readers posted on their progress.&nbsp;
Update 
Timmy played in his 2nd game with Cork Minors who defeated Limerick in the Munster Semi Final by 10 points. Lilly after winning 4 national ranking tournaments in a row, reached the final of the under 12 tennis at her home club Rushbrooke. its very difficult for someone to play on home soil, remember the darling of Japan Naomi Osaka the no 1 in the world lost her Olympic game during the week. Lilly can take heart from her exploits and the new National ranking issued on Wednesday showed she had moved from no 6 in Ireland to to number 2.
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Timmy playing minor hurling with Cork v Clare&nbsp;

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Timmy v Limerick
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Timmy in action leading his relay team to gold in the Cork Community Games finals.&nbsp;
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&nbsp;Lilly tennis champion at Carrigaline&nbsp;
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Lilly the athlete competing in. the Community Games


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