Sharon Glynn

Sharon Glynn
Personal information
Irish name Seárón Nic Fhloinn
Sport Camogie
Position forward
Born Galway, Ireland
Club(s)*
Years Club Apps (scores)
 Pearses ?
Inter-county(ies)**
Years County Apps (scores)
1990-2003
 Galway ?
* club appearances and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)).
**Inter County team apps and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)).

Sharon Glynn is a camogie player and manager,[1] an All Ireland medalist in 1996 and the star of her county’s 2002 victory in the National Camogie League when she scored three goals in Galway’s 6-6 to 1-7 victory over Limerick. She was nominated for an All Star award in 2005.[2]

Career

Her inter-county career that began in 1990 when she was only 15. She was a member of the 1994 National League winning team and the 1998 Galway team beaten by Cork in the All Ireland final.[3]

She starred in the 1996 All Ireland final, Galway’s first victory in the All Ireland Championship, despite taking a blow to the head that affected her accuracy for long periods. Another outstanding performance was in the 2001 All Ireland semi-final against Kilkenny.[4] She retired from inter-county camogie in 2003.

With her club Pearses she scored crucial goals in the finals of each of their five All Ireland senior club championship victories of 1996-7 and 2000-2, scoring 1-2 in the 1996 and 1-4 in the 1997 victories, scoring 1-5 in the 2000 victory over Swatragh, scoring two goals and two points in the 2001 final against Cashel[5] and scoring 1-9 in the 2002 final against St Ibar’s.[6]

In a club match in 2001 she was filling in for county goalkeeper Louise Curry when she scored a goal from her own puck-out.[7]

Management

She managed Galway for two years 2005-6,[8] at the time becoming the only female manager at inter-county level in camogie. She assembled a strong backroom team by adding two-time All-Ireland winner Damian Naughton and former Galway under-21 and Minor All-Ireland winner Damian Coleman as selectors alongside former senior hurler PJ Molloy.[9]

She was a nominee for camogie manager of the year after guiding the county to National Camogie League honours in 2005.[10] and beating Cork by a goal in the final.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Camogie Archive". Camogie.ie. 30 June 2010. Archived from the original on 28 January 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  2. ^ 2005 All Star nominations Archived 2011-10-01 at the Wayback Machine,
  3. ^ 1998 All Ireland final Cork 2-13 Galway 0-15 reports in Irish Examiner Archived 2011-06-22 at the Wayback Machine, Irish Independent and Irish Times
  4. ^ Kilkenny 2-12 Galway 1-9 report in the Irish Independent
  5. ^ 2001 Pearses 2-8 Cashel 0-13 Irish Independent
  6. ^ 2002 Pearses 2-13 St Ibar’s 1-5 report in Irish Independent
  7. ^ "Glynn gets goal in one". Irish Independent. 19 September 1998. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Galway appoint Glynn as manager". Irish Independent. 2 March 2005.
  9. ^ "Galway receive big boost". Irish Independent. 9 March 2005.
  10. ^ "Glynn steps down as Galway manager". Irish Independent. 22 November 2006.