Everyone at Ulster Hockey is saddened to learn of the passing of former Olympian and Irish Hockey international Maeve Kyle, aged 96.
The sporting all-rounder competed at three Olympic games in athletics and also earning 58 Ireland Hockey caps.
She was also a strong competitor in tennis, swimming, sailing and cricket and in 2006 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Ulster.
Born in Kilkenny in 1928, Maeve spent the majority of her life in Ballymena, where she also founded the Ballymena and Antrim Athletics Club with her late husband Sean seeing much success with her coaching.
The former Ireland international was the only woman on an 18-strong Irish team at the Melbourne Games in 1956 and the first to represent Ireland in Olympic track and field. She went on to compete at three separate Olympic games (Melbourne, Rome and Tokyo).
In her hockey career, she earned 58 international caps and was inducted into the Hockey Ireland Hall of Fame and was named in the World All Star team in 1953 and 1959.
In the same year that she was inducted into the Hockey Ireland Hall of Fame, she was also awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2006 Coaching Awards in London in recognition of her work with athletes at the Ballymena and Antrim Athletics Club.