Beth’s The Best

Beth Carton is already a big name when it comes to Camogie and it was confirmed very much so on Friday evening when she was crowned the Division One Player of the League in this year’s National Camogie League at a function held at G.A.A. Headquarters in Croke Park.

The De La Salle youngster has made a big name for herself in the last number of years, first off on the underage scene where she helped Waterford win Under 16 and Minor All-Ireland Final titles, before showing what she can do on the adult scene helping Waterford win a Division Two League Final and an Intermediate All-Ireland Final in 2015 in her first year playing at that level.

Since then playing in the Division One section of the National League and in the Senior Championship she has continued to very much impress.

She was part of a Waterford side that played in a tough division one group that included recent All-Ireland Final winners Wexford, Cork and Kilkenny where along with the rest of the side she impressed those that made it their business to go and support the team.

During the League she hit a very impressive 1-45 which was broken down as 1-8 against Wexford, 0-9 against Dublin, 0-7 against Cork, 0-13 against All-Ireland Champions Kilkenny and rounded off the league with 0-8 against Tipperary.

To win the award as the best player in Division One in this year’s League, Beth had to fight off stiff opposition from Anne Dalton, Denise Gaule and Miriam Walsh all from Kilkenny as well as Limerick’s star player Niamh Mulcahy.

The three Player of the League awards in the three different divisions were selected by opposition managers.

This is the fourth major award that the De La Salle Club player has won this year.

In February she won the monthly award for the Park Hotel Sports Star of the Month Award and for good measure she also win the WLR.fm Granville Hotel Award for her performances with Waterford and for helping University of Limerick win the Ashbourne Cup.

February also saw the De La Salle and Waterford player win the Women’s Gaelic Players Association Player of the Month Award for Camogie fending off stiff opposition from Clare’s Chloe Morey and Ciara Story from Wexford.