Garry Scollard (died 2000) was a

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...

er and hurler from the Austin Stacks club in Tralee,

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, Ireland. He was a member of the Austin Stacks team that won the 1977 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship, and of the

Kerry county hurling team The Kerry county hurling team represents County Kerry, Kerry in hurling and is governed by Kerry GAA, the County board (Gaelic games), county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the Joe McDonagh Cup and the National Fo ...

that won the 1976 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship. Scollard was paralysed following a car accident in 1978. He died in February 2000, and an under-16 hurling competition was subsequently named the Gary Scollard Memorial Tournament.

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