Lillian Zinkant

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Lillian Zinkant
Personal information
Irish name Liliadh Níc Uincaint
Sport Camogie
Born Cork, Ireland
Club(s)*
YearsClubApps (scores)
 Blackrock ?
* club appearances and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)).

Lillian Zinkant is a camogie player, [1] who won a Minor All Ireland medal as part of the Cork Minor Team and the winner of the award for the Minor Camogie Player of the Year during the later part of the 1970s or the early part of the 1980s. [2]

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Career

The daughter of George Zinkant of the 1951 championship winning Sarsfields team, Lill played with South Presentation, Cork, before becoming the inspiration of her club's unsucessful run of games in the All Ireland junior club camogie championship.[ citation needed ] Lill scored a total of a goal and four of the club's points in all of the season, and also won the league title with the club.

After her retirement Lill did some of the camogie coaching of the different teams. [3] [4] She attended the various presentations of awards for the other people to help them in the acknowledgment. She was the winner of some of her own trophies like of the Volunteer of the Year.

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References

  1. ↑ "Camogie Archive". Camogie.ie. 30 June 2009. Archived from the original on 28 January 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. ↑ Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: An Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460.
  3. ↑ Camogie.ie May 2010: Fun and Skills Galore at the Cork Allstar Camogie Camp [ permanent dead link ]
  4. ↑ 30 June 2005 Cork camogie set up supporters club


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