Séamus Qualter
Irish hurler and manager / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Séamus Qualter (born 1967) is an Irish former hurler and hurling manager.
Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Séamus Mac Ualtair | ||
Sport | Hurling | ||
Born |
1967 Turloughmore, County Galway, Ireland | ||
Occupation | ol | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
Turloughmore | |||
Club titles | |||
Galway titles | 1oireachtas 1992 | ||
Connacht titles | 2 Keogh cups 1994 1995 | ||
All-Ireland Titles | 2 Christy Ring cups 2005/2007 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
1 National hurling league 4 Connacht u 21 titles and 1 all Ireland U 21 title with Roscommon |
Born in Turloughmore, County Galway, Qualter played competitive hurling in his youth. At club level he is a one-time Connacht medallist with Turlougmore. In addition to this he also won one championship medal with the club. He managed Westmeath to the inaugural ChristyRing Cup triumph in 2005. That same year he was coach and manager of the Irish Shinty team when they played Scotland in Inverness. In 2006 Westmeath defeated Dublin in the Leinster Senior hurling quarter final, and he managed the team against Brian Cody's Kilkenny in the semi-final in Mullingar. Westmeath lost the game 1–23 to 1-7 attended by 8,500, a record for a Westmeath hurling game. He repeated his Christy Ring success in 2007 when Westmeath defeated Kildare in the final. In 2011 he managed Roscommon to win division 2b of the national hurling league and in 2012 managed the same county to win the all Ireland b hurling title when they defeated Kildare in the final 3–17 to 3–16 in Thurles.