A photo of the Irish Open Team taken at the excellent Toms Tourney in Brugges (www.tomstourney.be)
Back Row (L-R) : Mark Earley (c), David Misstear, Cian O'Morain, Derryk Boyd, Chris Stokes, Tadhg Healy, Dara Hayes, Rory Kavanagh, Enda Naughton, David McAlester, David Rickard, JD Coakley
Front Row (L-R) : Fergus Weldon, Dominick Smyth, Rob Kiely, Roger Beatty, Mark Dolan, Niall Harbourne, Brian MacDevitt (c), Alan Doyle, Robert Kane, Seamus Murray
The schedule and seedings for all Divisions can now be found on the EUC 2007 website. Both Irish teams have been given favourable seedings - both 9th! - due to our attendance at both EUC 2003 (www.euc2003.org) and WUGC 2004 (www.wugc2004.org).
The Open team have been drawn in the following group:
Great Britain (4th seeds)
Italy (7)
Ireland (9)
Czech Republic (14)
The first three games for the Open team will take place as detailed below. After these 3 games the Open Division will divide into a Top Eight and a Bottom Eight each made up of 2 groups of 4 teams. The top 2 teams in each of the 2 'Top Eight' pools go straight to the quarter-finals. The bottom two teams from these 2 groups play the top two teams from each of the 'Bottom Eight' groups. Essentially a 5-12 crossoverfor the last 4 places in the quarter-finals. After this every team plays out for ranking.
Open team Schedule so far:
Game 1: Sunday 29th July : 13.00 vs. Great Britain
Game 2: Monday 30th July: 09.00 vs. Czech Republic
Game 3: Monday 30th July: 13.00 vs. Italy
The Womens team have been drawn in the following group:
Great Britain (2nd seeds)
Sweden (3)
Germany (5)
Latvia (8)
Ireland (9)
Switzerland (12)
Belgium (14)
The Womens team will play 6 pool games and then the Division will split into a Quarter-finals and a bottom 6. After this happens every team will play out for final positions.
Womens Team Schedule so far:
Game 1: Sunday 29th July: 09.00 vs. Germany
Game 2: Sunday 29th July: 13.00 vs. Belgium
Game 3: Monday 30th July: 15.00 vs. Switzerland
Game 4: Tuesday 31st July: 09.00 vs. Sweden
Game 5: Tuesday 31st July: 13.00 vs. Great Britain
Game 6: Wednesday 1st August: 0900 vs. Latvia
Earlier in the year the players selected to represent Ireland at the European Ultimate Championships (www.euc2007.org) were announced.
They are as follows:
IRELAND OPEN
Roger Beatty
Derryk Boyd
John Davis Coakley
Mark Dolan
Alan Doyle
Mark Earley (Captain)
Niall Harbourne
Dara Hayes
Tadhg Healy
Robert Kane
Rory Kavanagh
Rob Kiely
Brian MacDevitt (Captain)
David McAlester
David Misstear
Seamus Murray
Enda Naughton
Cian O'Morain (Coach)
David Rickard
Dominick Smyth
Chris Stokes
Fergus Weldon
IRELAND WOMEN
Linda Barry
Sparky Booker
Layne Caulfied
Ciara Fitzpatrick
Catherine Gainey
Yvonne Halpin
Ashling Malone (retired - injury)
Fiona McDonald (Vice- Captain)
Laura McGrath
Emer Mernagh
Sarah Jane Monaghan
Sandra Murphy
Deirdre O'Breasail
Lorraine O'Donnell
Dayne Ortved
Sinead O'Shiel Flemming
Liz Schaffalitzky (Captain)
