Sporting Success 2010 - 2011

2010/2011 was one of the most successful years for UCC Sports Clubs.

Such successes included:

• Athletics Club:
• UCC Ladies team: U23 Cork County and Munster Cross Country Champions
• UCC Men’s team: U23 Munster Cross Country Champions
• Clare Fitzgerald won 4 gold medals at her first intervarsity outdoor track & field event in Shot Putt, Javelin, Discuss and Long Distance Throw
• Sally McCarthy – County U23 Cross Country champion
• Barry Donovan – Munster U23 Cross Country Champion
• UCC won the Annual Colours Cross Country Event against CIT for the 3rd year in a row
• Basketball Club:
• Ladies – Intervarsity winners – 3-in-a-row
• Colleges League Finalists
• Claire Rockall – MVP at intervarsities, Colleges All Star along with Aine Mckenna
• Claire Rockall, Aine McKenna members of Team Montenotte Glanmire who were SuperLeague Finalists in 2011
• Badminton Club:
• Intervarsity winners
• Munster Club winners – 5-in-a-row
• Various Cork League and Munster League and Cup successes
• Boxing Club:
• UCC won 5 titles at the Novice Intervarsities
• Camogie Club: Fresher Intervarsity winners
• Senior Colleges League winners
• Ashbourne finalists
• Julie Brien – All Ireland Club Final winner with Kilimor, Galway
• Julie Brien, Susan earner and Katrina Hayes selected on the Ashbourne All Star team for 2010/11
• Canoe Club:
• UCC runners up in the intervarsity
• Aisling Ni Ghriofa – Irish Senior Kayaking Team
• Fencing Club:
• Aoife O Loughlin – Irish Senior International
• Gaelic Football Club:
• Sigerson Cup Winners
• Colleges League Finalists
• Michael Shields, Ken O Halloran, Eoin Cotter and Sean Kiely members of the Cork team who won the All Ireland Senior Final
• Ulster Bank Rising All Star Team: Ken O Halloran, Peter Crowley, Eoin O Mahony, Sean Kiely, James Fitzpatrick, Mark Collins, Kevin O Driscoll, J B Spillane
• Southside Sports Star Awards in association with Cork International Hotel – March winner: Barry O Driscoll
• 96FM in association with the Rochestown Park Hotel GAA Award for the month of March – Billy Morgan, UCC Sigerson Cup team coach
• West Cork / Celtic Ross Hotel Sports Star Award for March: Kevin O Driscoll
• Golf Club:
• Emma O Driscoll – Irish Senior International, Munster Senior Interpro player, Selected to represent Ireland at the World Student Games in China in August 2011
• Ian O Rourke - member of the Munster Senior Interpros Team
• Handball Club:
• Ashley Prendiville – All Ireland champion at 60 x 30 singles and doubles, 40 x 20 doubles champion, intervarsity 60 x 30 champion
• David Walsh – World Collegiate Men’s A Category winner
• Hurling Club:
• Fresher’s All-Ireland Champions
• Fresher B Championship winners
• Intermediate League winners
• Junior Championship winners
• Michael Cahill – All Ireland U21 and Senior All Ireland medal winner with Tipperary in Sept 2010
• Ulster Bank Rising Stars: Philip O Loughlin, Luke O Farrell, Dean Brosnan
• Inline Hockey Club:
• UCC won their first tournament in the clubs history when they defeated Cork, Galway and Kilkenny in a tournament this year
• Judo Club:
• UCC Club won 10 medals at the intervarsities
• Kickboxing Club:
• UCC won 12 medals at the IUTF International Irish Championships
• Ladies Gaelic Football/CamogieClubs:
• Grainne Kenneally – Waterford –beaten All Ireland Finalist in: Junior Camogie and Intermediate Gaelic Football
• Orla Cotter and Jill Horan - members of the Inch Rovers team who won the All Ireland Senior Club title in 2011
• Ladies Hockey Club:
• Retained All Ireland League status
• Miriam Crowley – Irish Senior International
• Irish Universities selection: Olivia Roycroft, Kate Murphy and Ali O Regan
• Munster Senior Interprovincial team – Ali O Regan and Olivia Roycroft – Interprovincial winners
• 4 UCC students/graduate named on the Munster “Team of the Decade”: Miriam Crowley, Rachael Kohler, Julia O Halloran and Audrey O Flynn
• Men’s Hockey Club:
• Irish Trophy Cup finalists
• Andrew Gray and Peter Catchpole – Munster Senior Interpos
• Rowing Club:
• Justin Ryan – Intervarsity senior single skull champion
• Irish Senior Rower – member of the Irish Elite Squad
• Peter Hanily – Member of the Irish Elite Squad
• UCC – Cork Head of River winners
• Rugby Club:
• Retained All Ireland League Division 1b status
• Junior Intervarsity winners
• Philip Donnellan and John Ryan selected on the “Club Ireland” team
• Soccer Club:
• Collingwood Cup winners
• Josh O Shea – Man of the Match in Collingwood Cup Final
• The Gresham Metropole Hotel Cork in association with John Buckley Sports – Cork City & County Sports Star Awards – February 2011 – Josh O Shea
• Boardwalk Sports Star Awards – March – John Caufield – UCC Collingwood Cup Coach
• Glanmire & District Monthly Sports Star Awards in association with Vienna Woods Hotel – Michael McSweeney - March winner
• Tennis Club:
• UCC Men’s second’s – Intervarsity Bowl Winners
• Trampoline Club:
• Intervarsity winner
• Volleyball Club:
• Men’s Intervarsity Winners
• Ultimate Frisbee Club:
• Intervarsity winners - indoor, outdoor, mixed
• Volleyball Club:
• Men’s Intervarsity Winners
• Waterpolo Club:
• Ladies – National Senior Cup beaten semi-finalists