A total of 82 students across 17 sports, hailing from Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Kilkenny, Kildare, Laois, Limerick, Sligo, Tipperary, and Waterford have been awarded, with the recipients named at the launch of the 22.23 programmes at the UCC Sports Grounds in the Mardyke Pavilion on the 24th of November. 2 sports are honoured for the first time: Equestrian & Olympic Weightlifting.

The UCC Sport Scholarship programme aims to support athletes achieve their full potential and is divided into two main strands UCC Team Sport Scholarships and UCC Individual Sport Scholarship.

Through the scholarship programme our students, including 16 First Year recipients, will be supported to develop and progress in their journey as talented athletes and meeting their academic goals through our UCC Sport Performance Programme. The purpose of UCC Sport’s performance programme is to support UCC teams and athletes perform to their full potential.

The programme is tailored for UCC’s sports scholarship students and the university’s elite teams and athletes performing at top level sport in 3rd level sport, Cork, Munster, Ireland and internationally.

The university works with its clubs, coaches and specialist staff in the areas of sports science, conditioning, nutrition, sports medicine, sports physiology and sports analysis. UCC also works in partnership with national governing bodies, provincial sports organisations, and with Sport Ireland in the delivery of their high performance strategy.