Athlone Town’s Emily Corbet and Tommy Hewitt took home two of the top prizes at the 2022 SSE Airtricity Women’s National League Awards.
Corbet was named the SSE Airtricity Player of the Year and Hewitt as SSE Airtricity Manager of the Year following a sensational season for the Midlanders, who finished second in the League and runners-up in the EVOKE.ie FAI Women’s Cup.
There were three Athlone players included in the Team of the Year, including Corbet and her teammates Jessica Hennessy and Muireann Devaney.
Double winners Shelbourne also had three players selected in Jess Gargan, Shauna Fox, and Jessie Stapleton, while Wexford Youths had Ellen Molloy and Ciara Rossiter and there was one apiece from Bohemians (Rachael Kelly), Peamount United (Áine O’Gorman) and Sligo Rovers (Emma Doherty).
Shelbourne ace Stapleton claimed the SSE Airtricity Young Player of the Year, while Tara O’Hanlon (Peamount United) and Hannah Healy (Shelbourne) won the EA SPORTS Women’s Under 19 and Under 17 League Player of the Year Awards respectively.
The EVOKE.ie Golden Boot for top goalscorer went to Peamount United captain Áine O’Gorman for the fifth time in her career and Shelbourne goalkeeper Amanda Budden retained the Bank of Ireland Golden Gloves award for most clean sheets.
O’Gorman was named earlier today as the first signing for the new Shamrock Rovers women’s team that will be playing in the League next season.
The Buy4Pets Online Goal of the Year went to Sligo Rovers’ Aoife Brennan following an online vote that included many superb goals.
At the ceremony in the Gibson Hotel, Dublin, attended by Minister of State for Sport Jack Chambers, there were two recipients of the Services to the Women’s National League in Galway Women’s FC Chairman Stephen Moran and freelance photographer Mick O’Shea.
