The Crescent Sesquicentenary Soccer Tour, consisting of a group of 28 (18 students and 10 adults) will depart from Shannon on Thursday 2nd April. Our destination is Tacoma, a city 30 miles south of Seattle in Washington State, where we will meet up with Limerick-man Joe Waters who is head soccer coach at the Bellarmine Prep School in Tacoma. Our players will be hosted by families of students at Bellarmine and we will play four games during our stay in Tacoma as well as visiting the state capital, Olympia and Seattle itself. Joe has a great itinerary lined up for us including a tour of the school, a guided tour of Seattle, a BBQ back at his house and on the Saturday night of our stay we are invited to their main annual school fundraiser - an auction night. We will also have a farewell banquet on the evening before we leave where we will all get together with the hosting families and staff members from Bellarmine.

We depart from Seattle Airport on Wednesday the 8th April and head for New York where we will spend 4 days/3 nights with another Limerick-man, Daniel McEnery who is a soccer coach at St Thomas Aquinas College in New York. We will play two games in New York and our host has arranged guided tours of Manhattan by day and by night and we will obviously have ample time for shopping.

 

Diarmuid Mullins

Aidan Moroney

John McDonnell

Brian O’Leary

Larry White

Michael Tiernan

Tommy Murphy

John Togher

Fintan McNamara

Frank O Neill

 

 

Travelling Party (Players)

 

Ross Tiernan

Cormac Behan

Rob Lohan

David Cowpar

John Togher

Andy McDonnell

Evan O’Grady

Chris Hansom

Dara O’Doherty

Jon Harrison

Brian Murphy

Graeme Mulcair

Fergal Blake

Shane O’Donnell

Garvan Coughlan

Geoffrey Barron

Stephen White

Declan Ryan