KATIE MCCABE

 

Katie McCabe is the Captain of the Republic of Ireland Senior Women’s team. She is also one of the stars of the Arsenal team in the Women’s Superleague in England and was named among the World’s best 100 players in a recent poll.

McCabe was handed the Captain’s armband for Ireland at the age of only 21, making her the youngest ever to have that honour and she has been a major influence under successive managers.

With qualification for at least the play-offs to the next World Cup Finals now on the horizon and a surge of support for and interest in the Women’s game at an international level, she is a powerful role model for a new generation of young girls inspired to play.

She is the leader of a team that have shown themselves willing to get involved in social initiatives as well as being stars on the pitch. In that sense, her influence can be deeper now than ever before.

 

Check out the others who have so far joined the list right here.

 

 

 

This is the ninth edition of our Sport for Business listing of 50 Women of Influence in Irish Sport.

We are proud to do so this year with a new partner in AIG, an organisation that have pledged their commitment to equality in their partnerships with Gaelic Games, Tennis, Golf and more, for whom “Effort is Equal” and with whom we have ambitious plans to extend the reach of this annual celebration of the Women who are making a difference.

They are drawn as before from the worlds of leadership, partnership, storytelling and performance.

We began this journey in 2013 when challenged that we would never be able to produce a list of twenty Influential Women in Irish Sport. The 20 stretched to 30, then 40 and 50 and it still does not do justice to the talent that is out there.

This year once more, to keep things fresh we will introduce at least 30 per cent of fresh names from last year. That will be the hardest part to have some names replaced but if it was too easy it would be of less value.

The list we will continue to build over the coming weeks is a snapshot of those women who are making a mark on how sport is played, consumed, grown and delivered.

They are part of making the role of women in sport unexceptional by being exceptional in what they do.

 

“A powerful and influential network of information and collaboration”

 

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