Captain Corcoran lauds team effort
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Player of the Match and Tipperary captain Sarah CorcoranImage 2 of 2
Tipperary - 2024 All Ireland Minor ‘A’ Camogie champions. Back row: Ava Wall, Danielle Butler, Ellie Franklin, Áine Dooley, Aoife Gleeson, Ciara Shelly, Caoimhe Stakelum, Aoife Fitzgerald, Ava Gaynor, Caitlyn Treacy, Sarah McLoughlin, Sarah Corcoran, Danielle Ryan, Sophie Maher, Ali O’Kelly, Éabha Dolan, Nicola Kelly. Front row: Leanna Coppinger, Aoife Mellerick, Erinn Brennan, Elana McGrath, Paula Quirke, Lucy Heffernan, Lucy Purcell, Emer Dwan, Éimhear Troy, Ava Bevans, Anna O’Brien, Hannah Butler, Rachel O’Meara. PHOTOS: MARTY RYAN/SPORTSFOCUSBy Joe Scully
Tipperary captain and player of the match Sarah Corcoran was delighted to be an All-Ireland champion, but was quick to praise her teammates admitting she couldn’t get the player of the match award if it wasn’t for them.
“I’m feeling great,” she began.
“It’s wonderful being an All-Ireland champion, but to be honest it’s not just me, I couldn’t get the player of the match award, without the other players in the starting fifteen and the players who came in off the bench. I couldn’t have done that without them at the end of the day. I took the credit, but they put in the hard work.”
The Moycarkey/Borris player admitted a little panic had begun to set in within the team towards the end of the game when Waterford started to lay siege to the Tipp goal, but once the side made an adjustment or two, they knew they could see the job through.
“Definitely, when they were coming at us for a while, maybe for about five minutes or so, we definitely panicked for a while, but then we composed ourselves. We knew we had it in ourselves to win, we knew we had in within ourselves to see the game out, and that’s exactly what we did.
“As I said, we just composed ourselves, we put the extra player back, made sure no goals were going in and that was all that mattered to us, because to be honest we knew we would see out the game and the forwards, whenever the ball went up, they were excellent and kept the ball up there, and kept the pressure off us”.
The future is very bright for Tipperary camogie with talent and belief in abundance and the county can surely look forward to more days like Saturday, at all levels, going forward.