With six goals from four games, Rachel Kearns was the outstanding candidate to pick up the first SSE Airtricity Women’s National League Player of the Month award.
The Galway WFC forward netted a hat-trick in the season opener against Cork City before scoring in the games against Bohemians, DLR Waves and Treaty United.
Today’s Daily Video shows some of the quality that is visible week in, week out in the League, as well as giving insight into Kearns’ ambitions for the year ahead.
“The commitment and quality shown by all players so far this season is a joy to watch and Rachel has really shown her excellence in front of goal to lead the Top Goalscorer chart,” said Leanne Sheill, SSE Airtricity Marketing Manager.
“This is our first year as proud sponsor of the SSE Airtricity Women’s National League and we look forward to announcing many more Player of the Month award winners this season.”
This is the first time that the monthly award has been supported by SSE Airtricity and Kearns believes that the League sponsors have helped to elevate standards since signing up.
“It’s great that SSE Airtricity came onboard this year. They were the men’s main sponsor so it was great that they came on with the women’s side of things as well,” said Kearns.
“The publicity is great. They are on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, everyone knows what every team is doing with the scores and all of the games ahead, so it’s brilliant that they are on-board and they are doing a really good job.”
Treaty United’s Aoife Horgan and Wexford Youths’ Ellen Molloy finished second and third respectively in the voting process.
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