Katrina Parrock

Katrina Parrock (born 2 September 1990) is an Irish camogie player, winner of All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007,^[1] 2010,^[2] 2011^[3][4] and 2012 and an All Star award winner in 2010, 2011 and 2012. She was an All Star nominee in 2006,^[5] 2007 and 2009^[6] and a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011.

Katrina Parrock

Personal information
Irish name	Caitríona Ní Pharróg
Sport	Camogie
Position	Right corner forward
Born	(1990-09-02) 2 September 1990 (age 34) Wexford, Ireland
Club(s)*
Years	Club	Apps (scores)
	St Ibar’s Shelmalier	?
Inter-county(ies)**
Years	County	Apps (scores)
	Wexford	?
Inter-county titles
All-Irelands	3
All Stars	1
* club appearances and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 Sept 2011 (UTC)). **Inter County team apps and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 Sept 2011 (UTC)).

Also an accomplished association footballer, she played for Wexford Youths of the Women's National League (WNL) from 2017 until 2019, scoring the winning goal in the 2018 FAI Women's Cup final.

Other awards

National Camogie League medals in 2009, 2010 and 2011; Leinster Championship 2007, 2010, 2011; Leinster Under-14 2002; Leinster Under-14 2002; Leinster Senior 2007; Club Senior 'B' 2007 (with St. Martin's); Ashbourne Cup 2010; Ashbourne All Star 2010; Ashbourne Cup player of the tournament 2010 and 2011.

Family background

Katrina's grandfather, Jack Cullen, was a dual Wexford Minor in the 1950s before emigrating to England. She is a first cousin once removed of Tony 'Sack' Walsh, Wexford's Senior hurling full-back in the 1980s.^[7][8]

Other sports

Katrina played hockey and soccer at representative levels.^{[citation needed]}

Soccer

Katrina Parrock

Personal information
Date of birth	(1990-09-02) 2 September 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth	Wexford, Ireland
Position(s)	Winger
Youth career
	Rosslare Rangers
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Kilmore United
2017–2019	Wexford Youths
2020–	Terenure Rangers
International career‡
2006	Republic of Ireland U19	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:13, 26 December 2021 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:13, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Parrock made her debut for the Republic of Ireland women's national under-19 football team in August 2006, as a 14-year-old player with Rosslare Rangers of the Wexford League.^[9] In October 2006 she was selected for the Republic of Ireland women's national under-17 football team as a Kilmore United player.^[10]

In 2017 Parrock had tired of camogie and decided to "step back" from inter-county competition. She accepted an offer to join Wexford Youths in June 2017,^[11] after being inspired by watching the club's 2015 FAI Women's Cup final win at the Aviva Stadium on television.^[12] Although she had continued to play soccer with Kilmore United to maintain fitness in the camogie off-seasons, she had to undertake intensive training to meet the higher standard at Wexford Youths.^[12][13]

In 2018 Parrock helped Wexford Youths secure a domestic "treble", being named Player of the Match and scoring the only goal in the FAI Women's Cup final win over Peamount United at the Aviva Stadium.^[14] In January 2019 she signed for Wexford Youths for another season.^[15] She did not remain for the delayed 2020 season, seeking a new challenge elsewhere.^[16]

Parrock expressed irritation after sexist trolling facilitated by the Hogan Stand website came to her attention in August 2020.^[17] At that stage she was playing for Dublin non-League club Terenure Rangers.^[18] The material related to an incident seven years previously, whereupon Parrock's physical attractiveness came to national attention when she appeared on television in some denim shorts while nursing a broken arm and serving as Wexford camogie's water girl.^[19] After a dalliance with playing rugby union,^[20] Parrock returned to the Wexford senior camogie panel in May 2021.^[21]

Soccer honours

Wexford Youths

• Women's National League: 2017, 2018
• FAI Women's Cup: 2018, 2019

References

1. 2007 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Times and Gorey Guardian Archived 2012-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
2. 2010 All-Ireland Final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent and Irish Independent match at a glance, Irish Times colour piece and match report, comment by Tom Humphries and Mary Hannigan, RTÉ online Archived 2011-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, Irish Times online and RTÉ online match-tracker Archived 2010-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Wexford 2-07 Galway 1-08". RTÉ Sport. 11 September 2011. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
4. 2011 final Wexford 2-7 Galway 1-8 Report in Camogie.ie^{[permanent dead link]} Connacht Tribune Archived 2012-08-26 at the Wayback Machine Enniscorthy Echo Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine Galway Advertiser Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Times, Camogie.ie^{[permanent dead link]}, RTE Online Archived 2012-01-03 at the Wayback Machine, Tuam Herald Archived 2012-04-01 at the Wayback Machine Wexford People Homecoming in Enniscorthy Echo Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine Wexford People Preview in Irish Examiner Irish Times Irish Independent
5. "Camogie All-Star nominations announced". 16 October 2006 – via www.rte.ie. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
6. "2009 All Star nominees". RTÉ.ie. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011.
7. Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460.
8. Goodison, Dean (2010). I Gotta Feeling: Wexford 2010 All-Ireland Champions. Wexford, Ireland: Dean Goodison. p. 208.
9. "Katrina Parrock on duty with the Irish Under-19s". Independent News & Media. 17 August 2006. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
10. "Katrina in Irish U-17 squad". Independent News & Media. 26 October 2006. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
11. Farrell, Sinead (5 June 2017). "Three-time All-Ireland camogie winner signs for Wexford Youths". The42.ie. TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
12. Hannigan, Mary (1 November 2018). "Katrina Parrock wants an FAI Cup to go with four All-Irelands". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
13. "Parrock excelling at a whole new ball game". Women's National League (Ireland). 4 August 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
14. "Parrock admits rugby curiosity after soccer and camogie successes". RTÉ Sport. 10 November 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
15. Donnelly, Dave (23 January 2019). "Wexford Youths' FAI Cup hero Katrina Parrock signs back for 2019". Extratime.com. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
16. Goodison, Dean (13 June 2020). "Katrina seeks new challenge". Independent News & Media. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
17. Cunnane, Alanna (8 December 2020). "'It's Not Okay For People To Comment On A Picture Like They Did. I Was So Mad'". Her Sport. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
18. O'Brien, Brendan (17 August 2020). "Sexism in Sport: 'I was absolutely gobsmacked. It made me really mad' - Katrina Parrock". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
19. McCrory, Marie Louise (24 July 2013). "Striking young player attracts fans not fouls". The Irish News. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
20. Farrell, Sinead (15 May 2021). "'I couldn't look at a hurl, it was gone that bad' - return of a four-time All-Ireland winner". The42.ie. TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
21. Goodison, Dean (11 May 2021). "Parrock back after long gap: Katrina will add experience". Independent News & Media. Retrieved 26 December 2021.

External links

• Camogie.ie Official Camogie Association Website
• Wexford Wexford camogie site