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TENNENT'S/UGAAWA
MONTHLY MERIT AWARD
May 2006
Terry McCourt of Tennent's Ireland. (on left) and new UGAAWA
Chairman, Sean McMahon, with Jane at the presentation of the award.
When any player plays seven games with club and county during a month and scores 13 goals and 57 points he or she must come in for serious consideration for our Tennent’s Monthly Merit Award. And so it was with JANE ADAMS in April 2006 and her performances have earned her the accolade.
Jane returned to the Antrim camogie team this year after establishing her fast foods business and settled in immediately again. In four National League games last month she cracked home 6-29 for the Saffrons and, in the meantime, in three Ulster Club Premier League games with O’Donovan Rossa she hit an amazing 7-28.
Even without playing county camogie last year, Jane won our Camogie Award for 2005 and surely she has taken a major step to repeating the feat in 2006.
“This is brilliant, excellent,” Jane enthused when told of the award. “It’s a really great honour and I’m thrilled with it.”
Pressure of business kept Jane out of the Antrim team last year but she returned this season to be, once again, a stalwart of the side. She also played handball in her younger days and looks up to Fiona Shannon as a model for all handball players.
“With work and camogie, I just haven’t time for any other sports now,” she says. “I would have liked to continue playing handball but I just don’t have time. I don’t have time, either, to play football. I just have to concentrate on camogie.”
With seven games in a month, plus training and running a business in Belfast it stands to reason that there cannot be much time left for other sporting activities. She is the first camogie player since Paula McAtamaney in September 2000 to win our award.
At a presentation function on Wednesday, May 10, in the Ulster Brewery, Terry McCourt of Tennent's Ireland presented Jane with her award of a £100 Tennent’s Ireland voucher, an engraved Belleek China vase, wet and dry training gear from Pro*Star Sports and jewellery from Gareth Mallon Omeath. She will also receive two tickets and overnight accommodation for our annual banquet next November. The presentation was made by…..
Jane Adams was chosen for the award ahead of Antrim hurler Johnny McIntosh, Donegal footballer Michael Doherty, teenage Tyrone footballer Sarah Connolly and Monaghan-based Louth Football Manager Eamon McEneaney.
