 Coleman won a second Cork Premier Intermediate Championship medal on 7 October 2012 after a 1-19 to 1-15 defeat of Bandon in the final.Coleman joined the Cork minor hurling team in 2001, making his first appearance in a 1-15 to 0-07 Munster Championship quarter-final defeat of Waterford.In spite of losing out to Tipperary in the subsequent Munster final, Coleman later won an All-Ireland medal following Cork's 2–10 to 1–08 defeat of Galway in the final.