Sharon Glynn

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]

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)).

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.

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.
  • Camogie.ie Official Camogie Association Website
  • Wikipedia List of Camogie players
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