Four-time All Ireland winner with Wexford Ursula Jacob thinks that Waterford attacker Niamh Rockett will collect her first camogie All Star on Saturday night. The ceremony will be streamed live on Facebook and YouTube from 7 o'clock.
Rockett found the net three times in the 2020 championship. "She had an exceptional campaign. She is a leader on the field, she is a leader off the field. Her performances this year have been on a different level. I've seen all the Waterford games this year from their first game against Kilkenny to the quarter final defeat to Tipperary. When a score was needed, she put her hand up. She got two great goals against Limerick and got another brilliant goal against Westmeath. She has that never say die attitude. She has suffered some serious injuries, probably shouldn't still be playing but somehow she is defying all the odds and I think she would be a worthy recipient. I have her at wing forward on my All Star team."
Brianna O'Regan, Lorraine Bray, Kate Lynch and Beth Carton are also in contention in her view. "Brianna had a magnificent season, in particular the penalty save against Westmeath. Brianna has all the characteristics you need in a goalie. She's brave, she's confident, she has inner belief in herself. If a goal goes past her, she never lets the head drop. I think she is going to come very close. She had a brilliant season and she launched so many attacks with her distribution and her puckouts. I think in the coming years she is definitely going to receive one. In the back line, Lorraine Bray was very consistent throughout the campaign with her darting runs up the wing. She fully deserved an All Star last year and again she will be there or thereabouts. In the half back line, Kate Lynch is an up and coming player in Waterford. I have watched her closely this year and I was so impressed. For such a young player, she plays with such confidence. Her delivery into the forwards is brilliant, she is a great striker and she is well able to score points from long distance. Some of Beth Carton's performances this year shouldn't go unnoticed. Her free taking, her awareness and her involvement of other players around her. Beth and Niamh really worked well in the forward line this year. I can't fault her performances, she is consistently brilliant and one of the top players in the game."
Her All Star team contains six players from All Ireland champions Kilkenny, four from Galway, two from Cork and Tipperary and one from Waterford.
Ursula Jacob's 2020 Camogie All Stars
1. Aine Slattery (Tipperary)
2. Shauna Healy (Galway)
3. Sarah Dervan (Galway)
4. Davina Tobin (Kilkenny)
5. Hannah Looney (Cork)
6. Claire Phelan (Kilkenny)
7. Grace Walsh (Kilkenny)
8. Chloe Sigerson (Cork)
9. Karen Kennedy (Tipperary)
10. Niamh Rockett (Waterford)
11. Ann Dalton (Kilkenny)
12. Aoife Donohue (Galway)
13. Orlaith McGrath (Galway)
14. Denise Gaule (Kilkenny)
15. Aoife Doyle (Kilkenny)
Listen back to the full interview with Ursula Jacob from Friday's Lár Na Páirce.
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