Ruairi Og Camogs collect College All-Stars

Ruairi Óg Cushendall player Brónagh Heggarty now has three successive awards, and joins an elite group of players that includes Derry’s Aisling Diamond who went on to collect a rare national Senior All-star for Ulster.

Brónagh is joined in the selection by no fewer than three of her St MacNissi’s College Garron Tower team-mates – Colleen Patterson, Alex McLaughlin and two-time award winner Ashling Ward.

All told there are six players from last year’s selection picking up another award – Garron Tower pair, Heggarty and Ward, Una McNaughton from St Louis Ballymena, Rachel Kelly from St Mary’s Magherafelt as well as St Patrick’s Maghera pair Karen Kielt and Grainne McNicholl.

Ulster Colleges’ Secretary Sr Mairead Ní Fhearáin congratulated the 23 players selected and wished them and their mentors every success in the upcoming inter-provincial.

"To achieve an Ulster Colleges’ All Star Award is to rightly earn a place in camogie’s hall of fame.  Although the scheme is just 7 years in operation, already we have seen one of our girls go on to earn a National All-star and several others play at full inter-provincial level for Ulster.”

“This year our team has a wide base in terms of schools and the overall standard of player at the trials really challenged our selectors.  It reflects well on the coaching these young girls have encountered at all levels in their formative years.”

“I particularly welcome first awards for three schools – St Colm’s Draperstown, Our Lady and St Patrick’s Knock and Sacred Heart Newry.  May they inspire greater effort from their team-mates and lead to further honours for their schools in the years to come.”

The 23 player panel will attend their first collective training session very soon in preparation for the Inter-provincial competition in Dublin on March 31st.

Ulster Colleges’ All-stars 2010