ACC Bank Player of the Year Awards 2008

Three times winner of the ACC Player of the Year trophy Edward Cousins picked up his 4th Award at the 2008 County Badminton Awards night in the Stanville Lodge hotel.  The winner of a hat-trick of victories in the Charity Championship and the Players county championship the Taghmon star had the distinction of securing all three events in the singles, doubles and mixed doubles in the county championships for the 6th consecutive season.  It is a record that is unlikely to be equalled, but may yet be improved by Edward himself.  Edward was also a member of the Taghmon team that secured a triple success in county team events where he picked up a winners medal in the division one mixed doubles league, the men’s doubles league and the Knockout championship. 

 Edwards’s club colleague Siobhan Parle who had previously won the award twice, the most recent in 2006 was the popular winner of the ladies award.  The stylish Taghmon player is an annual nominee for the trophy and has been the dominant ladies player in Wexford badminton for many years despite the number of young pretenders to her throne.  During yet another successful season Siobhan was a winner of the Charity ladies doubles and mixed doubles titles in December and improved on that tally in March when securing a hat-trick of titles in the Wexford Players championship.  Siobhan captained the Taghmon mixed doubles team to their 6th title in a row in the Wexford division one mixed doubles league and also picked up a winners medal with the Knockout team and a runners up medal with the clubs ladies doubles team.  She is also a leading member of the Wexford county class 1 side who will be bidding to retain their All-Ireland title in Galway on the 10th May.