 He became Cork's first-choice goalkeeper at the end of the year after Paddy Barry's retirement from inter-county hurling and won his first Munster medal on the field of play following a 3–14 to 0–12 defeat of Limerick in the 1975 Munster final.Coleman ended the season by receiving his first All-Star nomination.After claiming a third provincial winners' medal in 1976, Coleman later lined out in the first All-Ireland final of his career when Cork faced Wexford.