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Coaches & Support Staff

Meet the coaches and support staff for Ireland Women's squad

Ireland v England - Women's T20 International Series - Match Two
Lloyd Tennant
Ireland Women's head coach

Lloyd is an ECB Level 4 qualified cricket coach with over 30 years’ experience in coaching and developing international, regional and first-class cricketers and teams. He is also the former Head Coach of Central Sparks, for which he led for four years.

Lloyd has significant experience in women’s cricket as Assistant Coach for the ECB Female Academy and ‘A’ Team, Assistant Coach for Manchester Originals Female Team, and as ECB Women and Girls’ Talent Manager for two years.

Glenn Querl
Women’s Performance & Pathway Coach

Appointed to role in 2021, Glenn has coached across a range of sports since 2007 in Zimbabwe, South Africa, England and Ireland, and holds an ICC Cricket Coaching Level 3 Coach certificate, as well as formal cricket coaching qualifications in South Africa.

He was appointed Scorchers Head Coach for the 2020 season, and has been a coaching consultant with the Ireland Women’s squad since mid-2020. In 2019, Querl also worked with the national underage boys and girls system.

James Cameron-Dow
National Spin Bowling Coach (Women)

James is a former Irish international who turned to coaching post-international retirement.

He was appointed Dragons Head Coach  in the Super Series in 2022, and has was working as a coaching consultant with the Ireland Women’s squad until being offered a permanent role in 2024.

Catherine Simpson
Women's & International Pathways Physiotherapist

Catherine was appointed to the role in 2017. She worked as a contractor until 2021 when she decided to leave her position as Lead Physiotherapist at Dublin Sports Clinic to pursue the Cricket Ireland role full-time.

Catherine qualified with BSc. Physiotherapy from Trinity College Dublin in 2014 and went on to complete a MSc. Sports and Exercise Medicine in 2016. Catherine has also worked across other sports most noticeably Paralympics Ireland Cycling Squad and Railway Union Women’s 1st XI rugby team.

Calum Burdett
Women's Strength & Conditioning Coach

Calum was appointed in November 2023.

Beth Healy
Team Operations Manager (Women's)

Beth was appointed to the role in 2019. Graduating from university with a BSc Hons Sports & Exercise Science, she has gained eight years experience in event management, team administration and logistics.

Prior to joining Cricket Ireland, Beth was Games Team Manager for The Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council (NICGC) for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018.

Beth's current role sees her manage the end-to-end team logistics relating to events, training camps, matches and tours both domestically and internationally. She is also  appointed as venue manager and match manager periodically within the Irish performance system.

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