Player Profile spotlight

Name: Danielle Smith 

Club: St. Vincents

County: Dublin

Occupation: Trainee Accountant, KPMG

Honours with camogie: 1 Leinster Under 18 Championship, 2 Senior Club Championship titles

Favourite sporting moment: Winning the All-Ireland Feile with St. Vincents

Favourite camogie player: Rena Buckley and Jane Adams

Favourite sports star: Brian O Driscoll and Anthony Daly!

Biggest sporting influence: My first manager, Hugh O’ Neill

Do you have any pre-match rituals before big games-  I’m not very superstitious but I always stretch my left leg before my right!

Last book you read: The Club

Last film you watched: The Guard

Favourite holiday destination: Holiday home in Puerto Pollenca, Majorca

Best piece of sporting advice: Believe in yourself, work rate is the one thing you can control and earn your luck.

Worst piece of sporting advice: That any one player might be greater than the team.

Favourite music: Everything

If you did not play camogie, what other sport do you think you would play at a high level? Gaelic football and Triathlons

Top two things you would like to see changed in camogie: A rule against playing the stick as it penalises the player who is out in front and full integration of the Camogie Association into the GAA.

Sports event you would most like to see: Dublin Hurlers to win an All-Ireland Championship.

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