In Mount Saint Michael an extensive extra-curricular programme complements the P.E. programme. At lunch-time and after school, teams are trained and coached in preparation for inter-school competition.

The school is represented in badminton, basketball, cross-country running, football, hockey, soccer, swimming and volleyball. Although success can be measured by the large numbers participating in sport, it is rewarding also to see success in the trophy cabinet!

Mount St. Michael have won Country titles in basketball, and Provincial and All-Ireland titles in swimming and volleyball. We are also very proud of the students who have achieved the highest honour in their individual sports - that of representing the country. In 1999, Kate Hanrahan played on the Irish Senior Women's Volleyball Team and Áine Mullahy was on the Junior National Volleyball Team. Denise Breslin and Louise McLoughlin were members of the Youth Olympics Swimming Team. Niamh Cawley continued to justify her selection on Team 2000, the Irish short list of swimmers for the Sydney Olympics, and Sandra Duggan played on the Irish U-16 Basketball Team.

To further enhance the sport and leisure lives of our students, a sports committee is selected from the 4th years . Their aims include:

• to ensure that the needs of all students are catered for in the school's extra-curricular programme with particular emphasis on provision of activities of a non-competitive nature (e.g. lunch-time step-aerobics or indoor soccer fun league)
• to increase awareness of the school's sports news using notice-boards, newsletters, local radio and press
• to assist in the organising of Sports Day - an annual event where staff and students alike enjoy fun activities ... usually in the sun!

The school's sport facilities are excellent and include:

• a small but well-equipped gym
• 4 tarmacadamed tennis courts which double up as a hockey pitch!
• a football/soccer pitch.

We have access to an athletics track owned by the local community and situated 500m from the school. Claremorris Swimming Pool is situated in the centre of town (approximately 1 mile from the school) and is also available to us.