‘Fostering the virtues of sportsmanship, skill and friendship in all our children, through discipline, safe supervision and guidance’

What Our Club can offer you?
Regular training sessions, for all age groups, in a friendly environment. Opportunities to play on our hurling team in local competitions. Spacious fields with top quality playing surfaces.

Club Trainers and Coaches
Training sessions are conducted by people who care. Our club trainers are interested in the welfare of children, your children. Our trainers and coaches have completed the official coaching courses, enabling them to teach the skills of hurling and to manage and train young people.

Care and Safety
Our trainers have all completed First Aid courses and the players must always wear hurling helmets.

At Mount Sion we place great emphasis on:

Ø Enjoying healthy outdoor activity.
Ø Creating a safe and secure environment in which to train and play.
Ø Enjoying sport in a friendly and enjoyable atmosphere, where there is discipline and proper supervision.
Ø Enabling children to mix with their peers and make new friends.
Ø Helping the children to develop socially and gain personal confidence.
Ø Developing hurling skills at a level suitable to their age.
Ø Cultivating Sportsmanship.
Ø Skill Development.

Social Benefit
Participation in structured sport will enable your son to live fully as a young person, to benefit socially from mixing with their own age group in a happy and friendly environment, where there is discipline and proper supervision.

Leisure Time with Friends
The children make good friends and grow up through their teenage years in company with these friends. Therefore parents will know where their children are spending their leisure time.

Generally our trainers and coaches are parents themselves, who’s own sons are involved. Having seen their own children benefit immensely from involvement in outdoor sport, they with other children to have the same opportunities.
Our Club Welcomes Everybody
Young players are the core of our club at Mount Sion. We cater for all age groups from the age 6 upwards. Children and young people from and school or any area of the city are welcome to come along, to train and play with Mount Sion. At present our young players are drawn from all over the city area.

It is often said: You do not choose your club, you grow into it during your school days and it becomes your second home, where you spend much of your leisure time in the company of your active friends. You move up through your teenage years, occupied and active. You may never become a great player, but there is a place for everyone, perhaps as a team trainer or club administrator or just an enthusiastic supporter. It starts when you are young so give it a go and see what happens.

Facilities
Not many GAA clubs in Ireland can equal or surpass the range of facilities at Mount Sion in Waterford.

Ø Spacious playing area of our juvenile teams
Ø Top quality and well maintained surfaces suitable for sport for young people.
Ø The extensive playing area is safe and secure with adequate perimeter fencing.
Ø Separate playing area for adult training and games.
Ø Special area with floodlights for adult winter training.

There are six dressing rooms in total: four rooms suitable for juveniles and two large modern rooms for adult teams.

Our Story of Success
Our club was founded in 1932 and over a period of more than 70 years Mount Sion has been Waterford’s most successful club on the hurling field, as is clear from the following list of titles.

Waterford County Champions:
Senior Hurling - 32 Times
Senior Football - 4 Times
U-21 Hurling – 8 Times
Minor Hurling – 26 Times
Munster Senior Hurling Club Champions (1981 & 2002)

A full list of the clubs various honours, can be viewed in the ‘Honours’ section of the website.

Foundations were laid and a future secured. A massive amount of young players were involved. Sport was central to their lives as children and as teenagers. Many are now playing Senior Hurling for Mount Sion and Waterford. In 2002 Mount Sion were crowned Munster Club Champions and Waterford too became Champions of Munster with 7 Mount Sion men on the county team.

Character Building
They learn on the playing field the virtue of honest effort and sportsmanship, the importance of teamwork and the value of being part of a group intent on enjoying an outdoor pastime within a framework of discipline and supervision. Friendships are made and confidence gained.

At Mount Sion we are proud of the generations of boys whom our club has helped turn into men and equally fully aware of the generations of men who remained boys at heart. Our club is based on people with a passion for Sion and Waterford hurling.

Do you fully wish to be a part of this story and grow up active and happy in a fun-filled environment surrounded by friends?

Your Contacts:
Mount Sion Centre: 051-372648.
Under 8 & 9 – Peter Walsh and Marie Dower
Under 10 & 11 – David Thornton & Tina Gleeson
Under 12 – Pat Whelan & Paul Galgey
Under 13 & 14 – Tommy Cusack and Jossie Malone