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This week I competed at the W.A.K.O World Kickboxing Championships in Albufeira, Portugal. With over 70 countries and 1670 athletes in attendance. Before the fighting began, I was honoured with the task of taking the Athlete’s “Fair play & Manipulation Oath” on stage at the opening ceremony of the championships, a great privilege.  

98 students across 18 sports have been awarded UCC Sports Scholarships for 2023-2024. The announcement was made at the launch of the 23.24 programmes at the UCC Sports Grounds in the Mardyke Pavilion on the 27^th of October.

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• 12 athletes selected for UCC Sport Star awards and Kickboxing Champion Conor McGlinchey – selected as overall Sports Star awards.
• Billy Morgan and Brian Cuthbert celebrated as Coach of the year and UCC Ladies basketball team win team of the year.
• JB McCarthy honoured as Kieran Dowd Recipient for outstanding to Taekwondo and sport in UCC.

UCC SPORTS SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE is approaching fast! Don't miss out, make sure you apply before closing deadline of 14th April 

Student Sport Ireland and the Irish Rugby Football Union are delighted to announce the full schedule for the finals of this years men’s and women’s rugby cup competitions, that will take place on March 15^th in University College Cork venues The Mardyke and The Farm. The host club University College Cork are hosting the finals day as part of their 150^th year celebrations of the clubs establishment, Student Sport Ireland and the Irish Rugby Football Union would like to thank them for the cooperation in organising this years finals.

82 students across 17 sports have been awarded UCC Sports Scholarships for 2022-2023. The announcement was made at the launch of the 22.23 programmes at the UCC Sports Grounds in the Mardyke Pavilion on the 24^{th of} November.

Deputy Head of Sport, Christine O Donovan and Exercise Physiologist, Trevor Woods were recognised for their 35 and 25 year, respectively, service to UCC and in particular to UCC Sport Physical Activity.
Both are the back bone to UCC Sport, always on hand to work with and assist students and clubs during their UCC journey.

UCC AFL had representation at the AFL European Championships earlier this month. For the first time since 2019, the European Championships made a return for 2022. The competition, was hosted from October 5-8 in Zagreb, Croatia, which capped off the AFL's year of international events.

• University College Cork will become the primary sponsor of Munster Hockey’s InterProvincial teams.

• Munster Hockey will have access to UCC’s world-class facilities at the Mardyke and the University’s cutting-edge expertise in sports science, high performance, nutrition, and sports psychology.

• UCC and Munster Hockey will collaborate on joint marketing initiatives.

Michael Bradley has been appointed UCC RFC’s new Head Coach, where he will head up an all-star coaching team that includes former Irish internationals Ken O’Connell and Paul McCarty, and ex-Munster fly-half Scott Deasy.

The GAA’s Student Bursary scheme funds are allocated by its Provincial Councils. Some elements of the Bursary scheme are common across the provinces; other elements are left to their discretion.

Adam Duane, captain of UCC Powerlifting, and Mia Kovacs have been selected to represent Ireland at the Junior World Championships and European Championships respectively.

University College Cork Sport is using SportsKey’s sports facility management software to help maximise the use of their sports facilities and get more people playing sport in Cork.

Of the six Irish crews that won medals at the World Rowing Cup in Poznan, four contained UCC students or alumni.

UCC Canoe Club have won Student Sport Ireland’s Event of the Year Award after hosting the organising the 2021-22 Irish Kayaking Intervarsities. 

UCC wishes to appoint an experienced Head Coach to the Department of Sport and Physical Activity.

Sponsored by the River Lee Hotel and Bank of Ireland, the UCC Sport Awards acknowledged the achievements of 19 outstanding student-athletes who have excelled with their UCC clubs, external clubs and representative teams in the last twelve months. 

University College Cork (UCC) is among six Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) around Ireland that have been awarded the Sport Ireland Institute Accreditation for Student Athlete Support (ASAS), which recognises good practice in ‘dual career’ support for student athletes.

UCC Sport is pleased to receive nominations for the 2022 Sports Star Awards

UCC Clubs and Societies Awards took place in the Rochestown Park Hotel on Thursday evening. Club of the Year, Event of the Year and Bene Merenti were just some of the awards being presented on the night. 

UCC Aussie Rules women's team travelled to Paris last week to compete in a tournament (Gallia Cup) which consisted of teams from across the continent. 

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University College Cork is delighted to confirm the appointment of two-time World Champion and three-time Olympian Sanita Puspure as UCC Sport’s new head coach for rowing.

On Sunday , 3 October 2021, UCC senior football team take on Duhallow in the Cork County Senior Football Championship. Following on from a victory over Muskerry on Wednesday on a score line of 2.13 to 2.11, college now play for the right to advance to the quarter finals of this year’s championship

Student Sport Ireland (SSI), the representative body for higher education sport in Ireland, has published its new strategic plan that will guide the organisation’s growth and development over the next three years. 

UCC senior hurlers as well as their senior football team will finally get their 2021 Cork county senior hurling and football campaigns up and running this week. First up tomorrow, Tuesday 28 Sept 2021 are the hurling team who play Imokilly in Pairc Ui Rinn at 7.30pm. This game is being streamed live by the excellent service provided by The Irish Examiner Sport website. Just log on to the site and click on the link.

FAI, Cork City Council, UCC & Cork Sports Partnership are delighted to launch a new FREE Walking Football Programme in the Mardyke Sports Grounds this September.

This Sunday, 12 Sept 2021, in Croke Park, Dublin the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Final between Cork and Galway will take place.

It is one of the major occasions in this country for female sport and with an increased spectator capacity and atmosphere , Sunday will see the best of talent take part in the Junior, Intermediate and Senior finals.