| Seán Loftus | |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Birth Date: | 1997 |
| Birth Place: | Turloughmore, County Galway, Ireland |
| Feet: | 6 |
| Inches: | 0 |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Code: | Hurling |
| County: | Galway |
| Province: | Leinster |
| Club: | Turloughmore |
| Clcounty: | 0 |
| Colleges: | NUI Galway |
| Colyears: | 2016– |
| Fitz: | 0 |
| Counties: | Galway |
| Icyears: | 2017–2022 |
| Icposition: | Midfield |
| Icapps(Points): | 9 (0-02) |
| Icprovince: | 2 |
| Icallireland: | 1 |
| Nhl: | 2 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Icupdate: | 17:49, 3 January 2018 |
Seán Loftus (born 1997) is an Irish hurler who plays for Galway Senior Championship club Turloughmore and at inter-county level with the Galway senior hurling team. He is usually deployed as a corner-back, but can also be deployed at midfield.[1]
Loftus attended the Presentation College in Athenry with whom he played hurling at all grades. On 2 March 2014, he was at left wing-back when the college defeated St. Brigid's College from Loughrea by 1-16 to 0-16 to win the Connacht Championship.[2] On 9 March 2015, he scored a point from left wing-back when Presentation College defeated St. Brigid's College by 0-15 to 0-06 to win a second successive Connacht Championship.[3] On 20 February 2016, Loftus scored 1-02 from play when Presentation College secured their third successive Connacht Championship after a 2-17 to 1-16 defeat of Fort Community School.[4]
Loftus joined the Turloughmore club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and underage levels. On 9 November 2013, he lined out as goalkeeper when Turloughmore defeated Liam Mellows in a replay by 1-18 to 1-10 to win the Galway Minor Championship.[5] Loftus switched to an outfield position when Turloughmore retained the championship title in 2014.[6]
Loftus made his first appearance for the Galway minor team on 17 August 2014 when he came on as a 27th-minute substitute in a 1-27 to 2-09 All-Ireland semi-final defeat by Limerick.[7] He was eligible for the minor grade again the following year and was appointed captain of the team. On 6 September 2015, Loftus scored a point from left corner-forward when Galway defeated Tipperary by 4-13 to 1-16 in the All-Ireland final.[8]
In 2016, Loftus progressed straight onto the Galway under-21 team. On 10 September 2016, he was at left wing-back when Galway suffered a 5-15 to 0-14 defeat by Waterford in the All-Ireland final.[9]
On 4 July 2018, Loftus was at midfield when Galway defeated Wexford by 4-21 to 2-26 to win their first ever Leinster Championship title.[10]
Loftus made his first appearance for the Galway senior hurling team on 5 March 2017 in a 3-31 to 1-11 defeat of Laois in the National Hurling League.[11] On 23 April, he came on as a 70th-minute substitute for Paul Killeen when Galway defeated Tipperary by 3-21 to 0-14 in the 2017 National League final.[12] Loftus made his first championship appearance on 18 June, coming on as a substitute for Adrian Tuohey, in Galway's 0-33 to 0-11 Leinster semi-final defeat of Offaly.[13] He later won his first Leinster Championship medal, as a non-playing substitute, when Galway defeated Wexford by 0-29 to 1-17 in the subsequent final.[14] On 3 September 2017, Loftus was an unused substitute when Galway won their first All-Ireland Championship title in 29 years after a 0-26 to 2-17 defeat of Waterford in the final.[15]
On 8 July 2018, Loftus came on as a 69th-minute substitute for David Burke to win his second Leinster Championship medal after a 1-28 to 3-15 defeat of Kilkenny in the final.[16] In the subsequent All-Ireland final against Limerick on 19 August, Loftus started the game on the bench but was introduced after 60 minutes as a replacement for Johnny Coen. Galway were beaten by 3-16 to 2-18.[17]
| Team | Year | National League | Leinster | All-Ireland | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| Galway | 2017 | Division 1B | 4 | 0-00 | 3 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 7 | 0-00 | |
| 2018 | 4 | 0-05 | 4 | 0-02 | 2 | 0-00 | 10 | 0-07 | |||
| Total | 8 | 0-05 | 7 | 0-02 | 2 | 0-00 | 17 | 0-07 | |||