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Night of the stars… Picture gallery 2 from the NI Women’s Football Association annual gala awards presentation at the Hilton Hotel, Belfast

Karen Donnell, of Mid-Ulster, receives Special Achievement award for her 25 years with the club from NIWFA's Valerie Heron

All the award winners

PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Championship : Lucy Redmond (Greenisland)
Division 1: Lucy Carville (Comber Rec)
Division 2: Shairee McVey (Coleraine)
Division 3: Bethany Kerr (Antrim Town)
Division 4: Caitlin Rae (Valley Rangers)
Division 5: Aliyah Monthe (Greenisland II)
Division 6: Sarah Jane Reid (Ballynagross)
Division 7: Natalie McCullough (Ards Rangers II)
Club Pathway: Lauren Wilson (Newhill)

TOP GOAL SCORERS

Championship – Amber Dempster (Bangor) and Chloe Tully (St James Swifts)
Division 1 – Sophie Graham (Craigavon City)
Division 2 – Shelley Stothers (Carrick Rangers Falcons)
Division 3 – Bethany Kerr (Antrim Town)
Division 4 – Caitlin Rae (Valley Rangers)
Division 5 – Aliyah Monthe (Greenisland II) and Janey Clements (Greenisland II)
Division 6 – Jane McStravick (Ballynagross)
Division 7 – Alex Shearer (Ards Rangers II)
Club Pathway – Lauren Wilson (Newhill)

Fair play awards

Club Pathway – Limavady United

Div 7 – Belfast Ravens III

DIV 6 – Ballynagross

Div 5 – Holywood

Div 4 – Dromara Village

Div 3 – Moneyslane

Div 2 – 22nd Ladies

Div 1 – Rosario YC

Championship – Greenisland

Club of the Year – Sponsored by Barclays – Ballynagross

Special Achievement award – Karen Donnell, Mid Ulster Ladies – 25 years at the one club

Goal of the Year – Hannah Gibson, Sion Swifts

PICTURES BY LAURA DEVINE PHOTOGRAPHY

Greenisland

Goalkeeper of the Year presenter, Brian Hutchinson, Uhlsport

Holywood

MC Jana McCabe and Colin Hopkins from 1880 Video Productions CIC

Jana McCabe and Top Goalscorer presenter, IFA President, Conrad Kirkwood

Jane McStravick, Ballynagross

Jana McCabe, Julie Kirkwood and Denise Watson

Jasmine Graham, Craigavon City

Lauren Wilson, Newhill

Lisa Woods, Lisbellaw United

Lisbellaw United

Lucy Carville, Comber Rec

Mid-Ulster

Moneyslane

Natalie McCullough, Ards Rangers

Natalie Wallace, Valley Rangers

Newhill

NIWFA committee

Oonagh Hamill, Newhill

Lauren Wilson, Newhill, receives her Player of the Year award from Kim Turner, Glentoran Women and Girls Academy Director

Player of the Year award winner, Bethany Kerr, Antrim Town

Player of the Year award winner Natalie McCullough of Ards Rangers

Rachel Lyons, Carrick Rangers Falcons

Rathfriland

Rosario YC

Sarah Jane Reid, Ballynagross

Shelley Stothers, Carrick Rangers Falcons

Sion Swifts

Sophie Graham, Craigavon City

Daniel Wallace, Kelli Appleton and Leon Stevenson of NIWFA title sponsors Barclays, and Uhlsport’s Brian Hutchinson

Tiarna Hunter accepts award on behalf of winner Chloe Tully, St James Swifts, joint top goalscorer with Amber Dempster, Bangor

Valley Rangers