Galway's Rachel Kearns has won the SSE Airtricity Women's National League Player of the Month for April.
The striker netted a hat-trick in the season opener against Cork City before scoring in the games against Bohemians, DLR Waves and Treaty United.
The Mayo native has been phenomenal and it is no surprise that she is currently leading the scoring charts in the league.
"I'm currently top in the golden boot race but at the start of the year it wasn't even a goal," said Kearns.
"I was just going out to see how I got on, I didn't put any pressure on myself, I just going out to enjoy myself and play. But in the first game I happened to get a hat-trick so that got off to a good start and I was leading from the start. Then I got a goal in every game since I've played.
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"It's great to be number one but some of the girls are catching up now, like Ellen Molloy is coming up now in second place. She will put it up to me. Hopefully when I get back (from injury) I'll try and score a few more goals and see how it goes."
This is the first time that the monthly award has been supported by the league's title sponsor and Kearns believes that they have helped to elevate standards since signing up.
"It's great that SSE Airtricity came onboard this year. They were the men's main sponsor so it was great that they came on with the women's side of things as well," said Kearns.
"The publicity is great. They are on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, everyone knows what every team is doing with the scores and all of the games ahead, so it's brilliant that they are on-board and they are doing a really good job."
Treaty United's Aoife Horgan and Wexford Youths' Ellen Molloy finished second and third respectively in the voting process.
