Waterford woman Lynne McEnery is poised to make history at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. She will become Team Ireland’s first-ever female Olympic boxing coach the moment she steps on the field of play.
In January of this year, Lynne became the inaugural female boxing High-Performance staff coach, working daily with boxers preparing for, at that time, qualification for the Olympic Games. She was a key coach at the 2nd Olympic World Qualifier in Bangkok, where 4 more boxers qualified for Paris.
Since joining the IABA’s High-Performance Unit, first as a member of the Paris Pool Coach Programme and then as staff, Lynne has coached at the prestigious Strandja Memorial Tournament, at the 2024 European Championships and at 3 multi-nations training camps hosted by IABA – with Ukraine, Spain, Turkey and France.
Lynne, a former Elite international boxer in her own right, is a proud member of Waterford’s St. Paul’s Boxing Club.
She contested for club and country at two Women’s European Championships (2011 – Netherlands and 2013 – Hungary).
IABA has commissioned profiles on all 10 boxers, 4 coaches and the High-Performance Director in celebration of qualifying the largest Olympic Boxing Team since Rome of 1960.
The full list of boxers is below.
Boxers.
50kg Daina Moorehouse (Bray)
54kg Jennifer Lehane (Ashbourne)
57kg Michaela Walsh (Belfast)
60kg Kellie Harrington (Dublin; defending champion)
66kg Grainne Walsh (Tullamore; member of Dublin club St. Mary’s, Tallaght)
75kg Aoife O’Rourke (Roscommon; Tokyo Olympian)
57kg Jude Gallagher (Tyrone)
63.5kg Dean Clancy (Sligo)
92kg Jack Marley (Dublin)
Support Staff.
Coach James Doyle (Dublin)
Coach Lynne McEnery (Waterford)
Head Coach, Zauri Antia (Bray)
High Performance Director, Tricia Heberle
Chef de Mission, Gavin Noble.
