The 2016 Liberty Insurance Camogie All Star Awards were held in Dublin on Saturday evening along with the announcements of the Junior and Intermediate Soaring Star winners, plus the overall camogie players and managers of the year awards.
Following on from Kilkenny’s four hurling All Stars announced on Friday, the success continued for this year’s Senior Camogie All-Ireland winners with Kilkenny picking up 8 of the 15 places on this year’s All Star team.
Kilkenny and Carlow also won out in the Players’ Player of the Year awards while winning senior camogie manager Ann Downey scooped Manager of the Year.
2016 Camogie All Star Team
- Goalkeeper: Emma Kavanagh, Kilkenny
- Right Corner-Back: Pamela Mackey, Cork
- Full Back: Sarah Dervan, Galway
- Left Corner-Back: Collette Dormer, Kilkenny (2nd All-Star)
- Right Half-Back: Rebecca Hennelly, Galway
- Centre Half-Back: Anne Dalton, Kilkenny (4th All-Star)
- Left Half-Back: Meighan Farrell, Kilkenny (1st All-Star)
- Midfield: Orla Cotter, Cork
- Midfield: Miriam Walsh, Kilkenny (1st All-Star)
- Right Half-Forward: Denise Gaule, Kilkenny
- Centre Half-Forward: Julie Ann Malone, Kilkenny (1st All-Star)
- Left Half-Forward: Aoife Donohue, Galway
- Right Full Forward: Michelle Quilty, Kilkenny (2nd All-Star)
- Centre Full Forward: Kate Kelly, Wexford
- Left Full Forward: Katrina Mackey, Cork
Windgap’s Denise Gaule was named the overall Senior Players’ Player of the Year for 2016. Kate Kelly continues to push the record books having picked up her ninth All-Star award for Wexford at full forward.
Congratulations to Kilkenny’s Denise Gaule who is the @OfficialCamogie Senior Players’ Player of the Year! #CamogieAllStars pic.twitter.com/vSQLIlwYKC
— WGPA (@WomensGPA) November 5, 2016
Intermediate Soaring Stars Awards
Kilkenny had five of this year’s Intermediate Camogie All-Ireland winning side on the original shortlist for this year’s Soaring Stars awards
Of the five, two have picked up their first awards – Jenny Clifford and Ciara Holden taking home the honours alongside Cork’s Chloe Sigerson and Linda Collins along with Jane Dolan (Meath) and Aisling Burke (Laois).
Kilkenny’s Ciara Holden was named as the Intermediate Players’ Player of the Year.
Junior Soaring Stars Awards
With Carlow tasting glory in the Premier Junior final on All-Ireland Sunday this September, so too did Carlow’s Eleanor Treacy and Ciara Quirke on Saturday night, both picking up their first Soaring Star awards.
Completing the six awards winners were Armagh’s Ciara Donnelly and Bernie Murray along with Roscommon’s Kelley Hopkins and Westmeath’s Dinah Loughlin.
Carlow’s Eleanor Treacy also picked up this year’s Junior Players’ Player of the Year award.
Manager Of The Year
Having seen her side take the O’Duffy Cup back to Kilkenny for the first time in two decades, Ann Downey was named this year’s Manager Of The Year.
Incredible work from the Kilkenny manager @anndowney57 as she wins this year’s Manager-of-the-Year #supporthersport #camogieallstars pic.twitter.com/6pQTMcoCYJ
— Liberty Insurance (@LibertyIRL) November 5, 2016
When the All Star nominations were first announced at the beginning of October, Ann Downey had this to say.
“Well it’s nice to be recognized for the effort that they have put in for the year and the fact we have won the All-Ireland, it is an added bonus, but to be quite honest, I’d say the girls are just happy with their All-Ireland medal at this stage and anything after that is a bonus. There’s always going to be awards night, there is always going to be someone who is disappointed about it, but that’s just an added extra but happy that we have got the All-Ireland”
Check out the original shortlists for the All Star awards here.
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