Naomi Carroll

Naomi Carroll is an Irish field hockey player described as an Irish Olympian and a senior international for the Ireland women's team. She was born on 13 September 1992 and is originally from Cratloe, County Clare. Alongside hockey she played camogie and ladies' Gaelic football at senior inter-county level for Clare, and in her youth she represented the Republic of Ireland women's under-17 association football team. She made her senior debut for Ireland on 24 August 2012 in a 4-0 win over Wales and reached her 100th senior appearance against Spain in February 2018. At club level she won the Women's Irish Hockey League title with Hermes in 2015-16 and later played for Cork Harlequins, who finished runners-up in the league in 2017-18. Away from sport she studied maths and Irish at Mary Immaculate College and NUI Galway and works as a teacher.