Melanie Walsh
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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My name is Melanie Walsh.
I am the school girls secretary here in Lakewood.
I'm also coach with the under-15s and under-16s school girls team.
And I was a parent.
My daughter's just moved to Cork City now from Lakewood.
I suppose I was a bit inspired because last year my daughter played on the Cork gainer team.
Conor rolled out the course to the Gaynor coaches and my daughter participated as a volunteer to help do some of the drills and she came home and she was absolutely buzzing after it and very much aware of you know potential injuries and different warm-ups and she spoke a lot about it so I was inspired and I contacted Conor then to see what he wanted here in Lakewood.
One of the things she actually came home and said to me was that we need to make sure that we're doing kind of proper warm-ups to build her muscles, her quads and so on, just applying it within the club.
She gave me facts and figures about ACL injuries, so she certainly, and she's continued that and she always makes sure that, you know, she applied proper warm-ups and she actually took the warm-ups that Conor did with them.
during the course and the practical part of the course and ensured that we adhered to it really.
So the main motivator is that, you know, I've coached girls and as a parent as well, two girls in sport.
I always feel that the needs are going to be quite different for girls, especially as they reach puberty.
They tend to have more ACL injuries and obviously changing bodies and so on.
And I thought it'd be my very good educational program
for the actual coaches within our club.
A lot of our coaches, while we have a lot of female coaches, we do have a lot of male coaches as well that may not necessarily have daughters.
And I thought it might be very good for them to actually learn a little bit about, you know, female needs, especially, you know, as they're approaching their kind of teenage years when they're playing sport.
I think what really surprised me is the lack of application of warm-ups to actually support changing needs.
I think what also surprised me was the other coaches' reactions to say that they didn't think of just even changing bodies and so on, even when they're choosing jersey types.
when they're packing their medical bags.
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