Nicola Tuthill aiming to build on promising start to 2025

Tuthill has been announced as one of 12 athletes who will be supported this year by the Jerry Kiernan foundation.

FUNDING: Joe Doody, Dara Donoghue, Hugh Armstrong, Ciara Neville, and Nicola Tuthill at the announcement of athletes supported by the Jerry Kiernan Foundation in 2025. Pic: Morgan Treacy/Inpho

Nicola Tuthill lives two very different lives.

One is just like your average student: Lectures, assignments, lesson plans, and all that. The other is spent mastering the art of spinning around a concrete circle and firing a 4kg metal ball off into the sky, landing it 70m-plus away.