Jackie McWilliams

Jackie McWilliams is the rare athlete who carried two nations on one stick, winning Olympic bronze for Great Britain in 1992 after years of defensive work for Ireland. She was born in Ballymoney in 1964, played for Randalstown and Ballymena, and was still striking the ball in her late forties. The fact that her own nephews became internationals suggests the game ran through her family like a river through a valley, carrying forward what she first learned on northern pitches.