Susie O'Carroll is a
camogie
Camogie ( ; ga, camógaíocht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities.
A variant of the game of hurling (which is played by men onl ...
player. She has won an All Ireland Junior Camogie Championship with Kildare in 2013 as well as an All Ireland Junior A Camogie Title (
Nancy Murray Cup
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) in 2010. She was also part of Kildare's victorious National League Division 2 team in 2004.
Susie has won
Soaring Star awards in
2009
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,
2012
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and
2013
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. She was the 2009 & 2013 Kildare camogie player of the year award winner.
She captained UCD to the
Ashbourne Cup in 2008 and was named the Player of the Tournament. With a total of 1-24 she was the highest scoring player in the
Kay Mills Cup
The All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship is a competition for third-tier county teams in the women's field sport of camogie and for second-string teams of first-tier counties. In accordance with the practice in GAA competitions the term juni ...
of 2011.
Susie was also the top scorer in the 2013 All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship.
Career
In 2004 Susie o’carroll two goals in opening 20 minutes of Kildare's
National Camogie League second division victory over Laois.
[2004 Kildare 2-11 Laois 2-6 report i]
Irish Independent
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Susie was captain of the victorious UCD team in the 2008 Ashbourne Cup. She also starred in the 2007 decider as UCD won their first title in 19 years.
Susie was part of the Kildare team that lost the 2013 National Camogie League Division 2 final to Limerick. Later that year Susie scored a brace of goals in a two-minute salvo that helped Kildare on the way to the 2013 All Ireland Junior Camogie title. She finished the game with a tally of 2-2. In 2015, O'Carroll captained Kildare to the 2015 All Ireland Intermediate Final where they lost to Waterford.
References
External links
Official Camogie Website
of 2009 championship in On The Ball Official Camogie Magazine
* ttp://www.kildare-nationalist.ie/tabId/423/itemId/5461/pageId/2/Camogie-Bridge-begin-with-a-bang-but-Larries-fi.aspx 2009 Kildare Camogie championship final report in Kildare Nationalist
2007" UCD land Ashbourne Cup for first time in 19 years from the irish Times
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Living people
People from Celbridge
Kildare camogie players
Year of birth missing (living people)
UCD camogie players