One of the stronger Munster U18 girls sides of recent years, featuring four underage internationals, was announced by coach David Egner for the 2010/11 U18 interpros earlier today.
Egner named a panel of 18 plus four reserves for the tournament, though he will have to wait for three of his charges to return from the World Youth Olympics in Singapore – the Irish squad flew out yesterday – before getting a chance to assess their true potential.
Nonetheless, on paper, this is a squad with strengths in all areas of the pitch, with almost half the side already first-team regulars at their clubs and well-known players in their own right.
Amy Kate Trevor in action for Munster U18 last year. The C of I defender is back as a key member of this year's squad, having just won a Four Nations tournament with Ireland. Picture: Adrian Boehm
The squad features a duo who recently tasted Home Nations glory in Garryduff, in the form of C of I full-back Amy Kate Trevor and Catholic Institute schemer Rebecca Barry.
Ireland U16 skipper Roisin Upton and her international team-mate Antonia McGrath, who helped Ireland to fourth place in this year’s Europeans, make their first appearance at this grade.
Barry and Upton will provide vice-captain backup to skipper Sarah Sullivan of Bandon, who returns for her second year at this grade.
Elsbeth Wolfe of C of I and Catholic Institute’s Naomi Flanagan will battle it out for the right to wear the goalkeeper’s pads, while Cork Harlequins pair Leanne Mullins and Emily O’Leary, C of I’s Nicola Kerr, Emma Dobson and Emily Reidy and Bandon’s Vicky Burns all have plenty of experience at club or interpro level.
Ursula Llewellyn (Fermoy), Ciara Hayes (Limerick) and the pacy Ally Moore (Belvedere) have all impressed with their clubs in the lower divisions, while Karen Fitzgerald and Ciara O’Sullivan make the step up from last year’s all-conquering Crescent College Comprehensive side.
Should any of the main panel be ruled out of the tournament for one reason or another, four reserve players are waiting to step in, in the form of Ciara Randles (Ashton) and C of I trio Jessica Griffin, Rachel O’Hanlon and Elisa Buckley.
MUNSTER U18 2010/11: Elsbeth Wolfe (GK, Midleton College/Cork C of I); Antonia McGrath (Ursulines Thurles/Cork Harlequins), Vicky Burns (Bandon GS/Bandon), Roisin Upton (Crescent/Catholic Institute, vice capt), Amy Kate Trevor (Scoil Mhuire/Cork C of I), Nicola Kerr (Bandon GS/Cork C of I), Sarah Sullivan (Bandon GS/Bandon, capt), Rebecca Barry (Laurel Hill/Catholic Institute, vice-capt), Ciara Hayes (Laurel Hill/Limerick), Ursula Llewellyn (Loreto Fermoy/Fermoy), Ally Moore (Mount Mercy/Belvedere), Emily O’Leary (Mount Mercy/Cork Harlequins), Ciara O’Sullivan (Crescent), Emily Reidy (Scoil Mhuire/Cork C of I), Emma Dobson (Scoil Mhuire/Cork C of I), Leanne Mullins (Ashton/Cork Harlequins), Karen Fitzgerald (Crescent), Naomi Flanagan (GK, Laurel Hill/Catholic Institute).
Reserves: Ciara Randles (Scoil Mhuire/Ashton), Jessica Griffin (Midleton College/Cork C of I), Rachel O’Hanlon (Scoil Mhuire/Cork C of I), Elisa Buckley (Mount Mercy/Cork C of I).
Staff: David Egner (Coach), Mark Egner (Assistant Coach), Eleanor Flood (Manager), Maria Twomey (Assitant Manager), Ian Buckley (GK Coach), Andrew Langford (Video).
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7 Replies to “Strong Munster U18 squad announced”
Congratulations and well done to all selected, best of luck to Antonia, Roisin and Rebecca over in Singapore, doing their schools,provinces and country proud.
Hi Alan,
Roisin played in the under 16 and 18 interpro series in 2008.
It is interesting to see squads being announced so early. In recent years I thought the branches have received complaints that the players never got a holiday and that the players had been suffering from burn out.
It is a complaint I heard many times from by players, parents and schools issued repeatedly over the years and never more so than last year.
So I am assuming these players will be opting out of some club hockey to ensure they do not play too much sport and suffer from burn out.
They should opt out of School hockey insytead shouldnt they!
Surley they would learn more at club level!
Great to see them get access to the IHA youth coach of the year over the summer too well done IHA
Most of these kids have surely had all of June and July off, with the exception of those playing international hockey, who should be on an enforced rest period from hockey since their respective tournaments. The rest were training at weekends with all week off as well.
The problem will be when they go back to school and club hockey and the failure of interpros, schools and clubs to manage players properly and ensure they are getting enough rest and not overplaying. Kids can end up in one week doing a club game (or 2 if they play for 2 teams), 1-2 club sessions, 1-2 school sessions, a school game plus interpro training, which usually includes a game and last for 2-3 hours. That’s almost the same as centralising! Let’s hope common sense prevails and parents/players manage the situation properly or we’ll have very tired interpro squads!!
The squad is not announced early……. it is only TEN weeks to go to the interpros, people moaned last year that the team was not selected early enough for them to train as a team, now we have people moaning about been too early, you can just never please some people, and i agree with the above comment great that they have the IHA youth coach of the year training them. Yes they defintely would learn more at club level.
I have seen some club coaching and it can leave a lot to be desired for some of these kids. The same can be said of some school coaching.
Plus I know that most inter-pro coaches do monitor and try not to stress the players, many times the request for the players to be treated well by some schools and clubs is completely ignored. Until this year the branch wanted to rest the players as much as possiblet but now they have asked the squads to start earlier which means they will get very little rest in reality, as most of these players should be doing two or three times a week physical training even when out of season.
Bye the way as far as I can tell from talking to medical practitioners the number of young arthritic sports people hitting the operatiing table in the early 30’s is growing rapidly, especially for those people who play on astro turf.
Food for thought I would think for all concerned with the sport
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Congratulations and well done to all selected, best of luck to Antonia, Roisin and Rebecca over in Singapore, doing their schools,provinces and country proud.
Hi Alan,
Roisin played in the under 16 and 18 interpro series in 2008.
It is interesting to see squads being announced so early. In recent years I thought the branches have received complaints that the players never got a holiday and that the players had been suffering from burn out.
It is a complaint I heard many times from by players, parents and schools issued repeatedly over the years and never more so than last year.
So I am assuming these players will be opting out of some club hockey to ensure they do not play too much sport and suffer from burn out.
They should opt out of School hockey insytead shouldnt they!
Surley they would learn more at club level!
Great to see them get access to the IHA youth coach of the year over the summer too well done IHA
Most of these kids have surely had all of June and July off, with the exception of those playing international hockey, who should be on an enforced rest period from hockey since their respective tournaments. The rest were training at weekends with all week off as well.
The problem will be when they go back to school and club hockey and the failure of interpros, schools and clubs to manage players properly and ensure they are getting enough rest and not overplaying. Kids can end up in one week doing a club game (or 2 if they play for 2 teams), 1-2 club sessions, 1-2 school sessions, a school game plus interpro training, which usually includes a game and last for 2-3 hours. That’s almost the same as centralising! Let’s hope common sense prevails and parents/players manage the situation properly or we’ll have very tired interpro squads!!
The squad is not announced early……. it is only TEN weeks to go to the interpros, people moaned last year that the team was not selected early enough for them to train as a team, now we have people moaning about been too early, you can just never please some people, and i agree with the above comment great that they have the IHA youth coach of the year training them. Yes they defintely would learn more at club level.
I have seen some club coaching and it can leave a lot to be desired for some of these kids. The same can be said of some school coaching.
Plus I know that most inter-pro coaches do monitor and try not to stress the players, many times the request for the players to be treated well by some schools and clubs is completely ignored. Until this year the branch wanted to rest the players as much as possiblet but now they have asked the squads to start earlier which means they will get very little rest in reality, as most of these players should be doing two or three times a week physical training even when out of season.
Bye the way as far as I can tell from talking to medical practitioners the number of young arthritic sports people hitting the operatiing table in the early 30’s is growing rapidly, especially for those people who play on astro turf.
Food for thought I would think for all concerned with the sport