Please answer the following question: Mick Higgins (22 August 1922 28 January 2010) was an Irish sportsperson who played Gaelic football for Cavan winning three All-Ireland medals during his career. In later years he was a successful coach.His first All-Ireland Senior Football medal came as a member of the team that won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final played at the Polo Grounds in New York United States in 1947. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete