Aimee Mackin

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Aimee Mackin
Aimee Mackin 2014.jpg
Mackin playing soccer for Northern Ireland in May 2014
Born (1997-04-22) 22 April 1997 (age 26)
Camlough, Northern Ireland
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in) [1]
Ladies' Gaelic football career
Personal information
Sport Ladies' Gaelic football
Position Forward
Club(s)
YearsClub
 Shane O'Neill's GAC
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
2015–
 Armagh
Inter-county titles
All Stars 3
Association football career
Position(s) Midfielder / Forward
Youth career
Bessbrook
Camlough Rovers [2]
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Newry City
2018–2019 Sion Swifts
International career‡
2013–2015 Northern Ireland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:25, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:25, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
Australian rules football career
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2023– Melbourne 6 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2023 season.
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Aimee Mackin (born 22 April 1997) is an Irish dual code footballer from Camlough in County Armagh. In association football she has played for Women's Premiership clubs Newry City and Sion Swifts, and represented the Northern Ireland women's national football team at both youth and senior level. She also played ladies' Gaelic football for Shane O'Neill's GAC and at senior level for Armagh GAA, competing in the Ladies' National Football League and All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship. She was named the 2020 TG4 Senior Player's Player of the Year. [3]

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Soccer career

Club career

In September 2015, Newry City won the Northern Ireland Women's Premier League, when Mackin scored a dramatic last-minute winner over Mid-Ulster Ladies. [4] Mackin signed for Sion Swifts in March 2018 after Newry City withdrew from the Women's Premiership. [5]

International career

Youth

In 2011 Mackin was called up to represent Northern Ireland at under-15 schoolgirl level while she attended St Paul's High School, Bessbrook. [6] In April 2012 she was a key player in the team which retained the Bob Docherty Cup. [7] By the following season she was participating for the Northern Ireland women's national under-17 football team in their 2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification series. [8]

In February 2015 Mackin scored a hat-trick for the Northern Ireland women's national under-19 football team in a 9–1 win over Estonia at Solitude. [9]

Senior

Mackin made her senior debut for Northern Ireland in October 2013, during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification campaign. [10] She was still 16 years old when she scored against Estonia in March 2014. [11]

Gaelic football career

From a prominent Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) family, Mackin's father Michael served as a coach and chairman of Shane O'Neill's GAC where Aimee and her five siblings all played. [12] Aimee was among four of the siblings to progress to senior inter-county football with Armagh. [12] She made her debut in 2015 and won All Star honours following a series of promising performances. She won another All Star in 2017, before her progress was derailed by an anterior cruciate ligament injury in July 2019. [13]

After a period of rehabilitation Mackin stopped playing soccer to focus on Gaelic football. [14] Exceptional form on her return led to her winning the 2020 TG4 Senior Player's Player of the Year. [15] [16]

Australian rules football career

In 2022 Mackin's sister and Armagh team-mate Bláithín signed for AFL Women's club Melbourne Football Club, but Aimee decided to remain in Ireland: "I'm probably a bit of a homebird so playing Gaelic is the priority for me at the minute." [17] At the time she was employed as a classroom assistant at her alma mater St Paul's High School. [14]

However in 2023, Aimee decided to join her sister at Melbourne, [18] where she played six games in the 2023 AFL Women's season, including two finals.

Personal life

Mackin attended St Paul's High School, Bessbrook [12] and Ulster University at Jordanstown. [19]

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References

  1. ↑ "Meet the U16 Ladies Management & Squad…". St Paul's High School, Bessbrook. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "Aimee Mackin making waves in the world of ladies' football". The Irish News. 16 April 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
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  10. ↑ James, Laure (31 October 2013). "Women's World Cup Qualifier: Northern Ireland count cost of missed opportunities". Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 22 October 2022. Striker Aimee Mackin, who is only 16 and made her senior debut last night, stood out for Northern Ireland with her battling tenacity along the left flank, showing leadership across the front of the team.
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