Code: | Camogie |
County: | Cork |
Province: | Munster |
Fiona O'Driscoll | |
Irish: | Fiona Ní Drisceoil |
Nickname: | Pocket rocket. |
Sport: | Camogie |
Position: | half forward, full forward |
County: | Cork |
Club: | Fr O'Neill's |
Clyears: | 1990–2003 |
Clapps(Points): | ? |
Clposition: | Centre forward |
Icyears: | 1993–2003 |
Icapps(Points): | ? |
Counties: | Cork |
Icposition: | Right corner forward |
Clupdate: | (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)) |
Icupdate: | (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)) |
Birth Place: | Knockadoon, Ballymacoda, Cork, Ireland |
Fiona O'Driscoll is a camogie player, winner of the National Camogie Player of the Year award in 2002 and a Lynchpin award, predecessor of the All Star awards, in 2003[1] and six All Ireland medals in 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2003.
For much of her career she was free-taker and led the Cork attack. In the 2002 final she scored 3–2 against Tipperary.[2] She won eight National League medals including seven-in-a-row between 1995 and 2001 and another in 2003. She scored 2-7 of Cork's 3-7 total in the 2000 final.
She was a member of the All-Stars Football Team in 1995.
She played on the University of Limerick team that won Ashbourne Cup titles in 2004[3] and 2005.[4] She played on three O'Connor Cup UL Football winning teams from 1993 to 1995.[5]
She coached Cork to successful 2005 and 2006 All Ireland final against Tipperary and in their unsuccessful 2007 All Ireland final against Galway, becoming the first female Coach to all-Ireland camogie winners in over 20 years.[6]
She was chair of National CCIA (the |Higher Education committee of the Camogie Association) 1995-1998 and Chairperson of the National Camogie Coaching and Development Committee (2006–2008).