Some of the Players
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Siobhan Herbst (0),
(EIRE) Ireland's highest handicap lady player and captain
of the winning team 9 times. Siobhan runs Polo Wicklow while doing
a degree in Agriculture at Kildalton College. This year she will be
joined again by Claire Brougham for the 3rd successive
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Liz Brayboy (0),
(USA) learned to play polo as a student at Yale and went
on to coach at a girls' high school near Baltimore, Maryland. She
has played on and off for 25 years and is currently playing with a
club in Connecticut. She has played in the Ladies Tournament for 8
years and is looking forward to a return in 2011. |
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Caroline Keeling (-2),
(EIRE) only took up polo in 2008 and has already captained
last years winning team and semi-finalist team in 2009. Caroline
runs the family fruit company, Keelings, and is also a champion
kick-boxer - so don't get in her way!! |

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Claire Donnelly (1),
(UK) has played the last 2 years with Siobhan Herbst
winning in 2009 and was a finalist in 2010, she was raised to 1
goal handicap at the end of last year making her one of the highest
rated players in the tournament and has just married, this April,
her long term boyfriend and fellow polo player Niall Donnelly. |
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Róisín O'Brien (-2),
(EIRE) began playing at the end of 2010 and will be making
her debut to the Ladies Tournament. Teamed up with Siobhan Herbst
and Claire Brougham she will be one to look out for. Róisín
combines here passion for polo with a successful international
buying career. |

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Eileen Flint (0),
(USA), started playing polo at Yale University and
subsequently managed the Yale Polo and Equestrian Center for 20
years. Eileen entered the first USA Ladies team in 2002 and led her
team to a win with Leslie Anne Masterton in 2004. |
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Nicola Foley
(0), (EIRE) began playing polo 2006 when she
decided to make the move from Polocrosse. As a polocrosse player
Nicola represented the country on many occasions and was the
highest rated lady player in Ireland. She took to polo like a duck
to water and has been in the final of the Ladies for the past 3
years winning it with Caroline Keeling last year. |

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Whitney Vogt (0),
(USA) began playing polo as a Captain in the US Army in
1996. Since then she has played polo across the US and in several
countries including the Irish Ladies Tournament in which she has
participated for the past 10 years. Whitney currently lives and
plays polo in Chicago, Illinois. |
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Naomi Shairp (-1),
(EIRE) started playing 2002 when she moved to Ireland from
the UK and has played in the ladies tournament since 2003. By day
she is the financial controller of Castle Durrow hotel and four
other associated businesses. In her own time she events and well as
playing polo. |

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Jeanine Hugo (0),
(SA), started playing in 2005, and made here debut in the
Irish Ladies Tournament in 2009. When she is not here working in
Ireland she is living out on her boyfriends farm in Mar del Plata,
Argentina training young horses, playing practices and ladies
tournaments , returning to her home of South Africa for a few
months break each year. |
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Allie Wick (0),
(UK) started playing polo in New Zealand about 6 years ago
and since then spends her time between working and teaching at the
Cool Hooves Polo School at the RCBPC during the English summers and
making young ponies in New Zealand during the winter. This will be
Allie's 3rd year playing in the Ladies in Ireland with
Naomi Shairp. |

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Lucy Taylor (1),
(UK) is one of the highest rated players in the
tournament; this will be her 3rd year playing the Irish
Ladies alongside Caroline Keeling and Nicola Foley. During the year
Lucy plays in Barbados, England, New Zealand and Argentina keeping
her very busy while also bringing on her own young horses at home
in Cheshire. |