Garry Scollard

Garry Scollard
Personal information
Sport Gaelic football
Position Forward
Born Tralee, County Kerry
Club(s)
Years Club
1960s–1970s
 Austin Stacks
Club titles
Kerry titles 3
Munster titles 1
All-Ireland Titles 1
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
 Kerry

Garry Scollard (died 2000) was a Gaelic footballer and hurler from the Austin Stacks club in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. He was a member of the Austin Stacks team that won the 1977 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship, and of the Kerry county hurling team that won the 1976 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship.[1][2] Scollard was paralysed following a car accident in 1978.[3][4] He died in February 2000,[3] and an under-16 hurling competition was subsequently named the Gary Scollard Memorial Tournament.[1][5]

  1. ^ a b Crean, Dermot (26 March 2015). "Two Great Kerry Hurlers To Be Remembered In Tournaments This Weekend". traleetoday.ie. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  2. ^ O'Mahony, John (25 March 2015). "Gary and Todd honoured". killarneytoday.com. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  3. ^ a b Collins, Martin (27 February 2020). ""The Complete Club Man" – We Remember Garry Scollard". austinstacks.ie. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  4. ^ Fogarty, John (14 February 2015). "The Odds Stacked Against Them". irishexaminer.com. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Minors face very tough task against Cork in Munster Championship". The Kerryman. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2022.