Cork's Niamh Cotter has had 'massive impact' on Kilmacud Crokes

Glengariff native Niamh Cotter, an All-Ireland winner with Cork in 2016, is now a key player for Kilmacud Crokes. 

Niamh Cotter of Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Senior Ladies Club Football Championship semi-final against Castleisland Desmonds. Picture: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

An athletics scholarship in the US was apparently on the table for Niamh Cotter as a talented teenage distance runner.

The Glengarriff native knocked it back though, preferring instead to enrol at UCC, stick with Gaelic football and see where that took her.