| Simon Kennefick | |
| Irish: | Síomón Ciniféic |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Birth Date: | 1999 |
| Birth Place: | Cork, Ireland |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Code: | Hurling |
| County: | Cork |
| Province: | Munster |
| Club: | Glen Rovers |
| Clyears: | 2018-present |
| Clapps(Points): | 18 (7-28) |
| Clcounty: | 0 |
| Colleges: | University College Cork |
| Colyears: | 2018-2022 |
| Counties: | Cork |
| Icyears: | 2019-present |
| Icposition: | Left wing-forward |
| Icapps(Points): | 0 (0-00) |
| Icprovince: | 0 |
| Icallireland: | 0 |
| Nhl: | 0 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Clupdate: | 18:09, 24 November 2021 |
| Icupdate: | 22:15, 21 May 2021 |
Simon Kennefick (born 1999) is an Irish hurler who plays as a forward for club side Glen Rovers and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team. He is a grandson of Christy Ring.[1]
Kennefick joined the Glen Rovers club at a young age and played in all levels at juvenile and underage levels. It was the club with whom his grandfather, Christy Ring, won a record 14 championship titles.[2] Kennefick had his first championship success at minor level when Glen Rovers secured the 2017 Premier 1 Championship title after a 0-19 to 1-11 defeat of Midleton in the final.[3] He was subsequently drafted onto the Glen Rovers senior team and made his championship debut on 28 April 2018 when he scored 1-03 in a first round defeat of Ballymartle.[4] Kennefick lined out in three successive county finals over the following three seasons, experiencing defeats to Imokilly in 2019, Blackrock in 2020 and Midleton in 2021.[5] [6] [7]
Kennefick never played at minor level for Cork, but was drafted onto the under-21 team in 2018. He was a member of the extended training panel when Cork secured the Munster Championship title after 2-23 to 1-13 defeat of Tipperary in the final.[8] He was again eligible for the now renamed under-20 grade the following year and made his first appearance at right wing-forward in a 1-20 to 0-16 first-round defeat of Limerick.[9] On 24 August 2019, Kennefick was a late addition to the Cork starting fifteen that suffered a 5-17 to 1-18 defeat by Tipperary in the All-Ireland final.[10]
Kennefick made his first appearance for Cork at senior level when he was selected on the team at right wing-forward for the annual Canon O'Brien Cup game against University College Cork in January 2019. He scored four points from play in the 1-24 to 1-23 victory but was not included on the Cork panel for the rest of the season.[11]
In May 2021, Kennefick received his first competitive call-up at senior level when he was named amongst the substitutes for Cork's National League game against Westmeath.
| Team | Year | Cork SHC | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Score | |||
| Glen Rovers | 2018 | 2 | 1-05 | |
| 2019 | 5 | 1-06 | ||
| Total | 7 | 2-11 | ||
| Year | Cork PSHC | |||
| Apps | Score | |||
| 2020 | 5 | 5-08 | ||
| 2021 | 6 | 0-09 | ||
| Total | 11 | 5-17 | ||
| Career total | 18 | 7-28 | ||
| Team | Year | National League | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| Cork | 2019 | Division 1A | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 2020 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| 2021 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | |||
| Career total | 9 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | |||
2019
2018