The Front Row Union caught up with Ulster Women’s Captain Lizzie Ballentine and Ulster Women’s Coach Benjy Van Der Byl to get their reaction on the Ulster performance during the recent Inter Provincial Series.
Despite showing significant improvement Ulster still only finished third in the four team series. They got off to a disappointing start losing to Leinster in the opening round, but nearly caused a major shock in the next round only narrowly failing to beat Munster (the Women’s Interprovincial champions for the last 6 seasons) in Limerick. The Ulster girls then recorded their first win in two seasons by beating Connacht in Ballymoney last weekend to finish off the series on a high.
This is the second season in coach Benjy Van Der Byl’s redevelopment plan and Ulster continued to blood new faces this season with a fair degree of success with Gemma McCutcheon, Ashleigh Baxter, and Nikki Caughey all having impressive debuts at Inter Provincial level. Crucially Ulster also managed to fit in a . . .
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