DCU Saints

DCU Saints
Leagues	Super League
History	DCU Saints 2007–present
Arena	DCU Sports Complex
Location	Dublin, Ireland
Team colours	Blue & yellow
Head coach	Joey Boylan
Championships	4 (1979, 1980, 1994, 2006)
Uniforms
Home Away

DCU Saints is an Irish basketball team based in Dublin. The team competes in the Super League and plays its home games at the DCU Sports Complex. The team is a division of St. Vincent's Basketball Club and is directly associated with Dublin City University.

History

Basketball was first introduced in a school yard of St. Vincent's C.B.S. by Brother O'Farrell in 1958. The sport took off in 1961, and in September 1962, St. Vincent's Basketball Club registered with the ABBA.^[1] With the creation of the Irish National League in 1973, St. Vincent's quickly rose to prominence by the late 1970s with back-to-back titles in 1978–79 and 1979–80. The team won two more championships in 1993–94 and 2005–06.^[2] The team also won National Cup titles in 1984, 1993 and 1994.^[3]

For the 2000–01 season, the team was known as O'Hagan Saints.^[4] For the 2002–03 season, the team was known as Irish Travel Partner Saints.^[5][6] Then between 2004 and 2006, the team donned they name of Roma St. Vincent's. The team became known as DCU Saints for the 2007–08 season after moving out of the gymnasium of St. Vincent's C.B.S. and into the Dublin City University Sports Complex.^[7]

Achievements

• 4× Irish National League champions: 1979, 1980, 1994, 2006^[8]
• 3× Irish National Cup champions: 1984, 1993, 1994

Current roster

DCU Saints roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. 3.5 !F IRE ! Brannelly, Graham 7000190000000000000♠1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 1.5 !G IRE ! Darling, Eoin 7000186000000000000♠1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) IRE ! Davidson, Shane 3.5 !F IRE ! Gilligan, Conor 7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) IRE ! Guebali, Tariq 3.5 !F IRE ! Heaney, Daniel 7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 3.5 !F LAT ! Makarenko, Arkadijs 7000194000000000000♠1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 1.5 !G IRE ! Nagle, Mark 7000191000000000000♠1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 3.5 !F IRE ! Neary, Martin 7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 1.5 !G IRE ! O'Hanlon, Kevin 7000186000000000000♠1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 5.0 !C LAT ! Provizors, Martins 7000202000000000000♠2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 1.5 !G IRE ! Sullivan, Robert 7000188000000000000♠1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	Head coach Joey Boylan Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 1 October 2016

References

External links

• Old St. Vincent's BC website at the Wayback Machine (archived May 4, 2001)
• Old St. Vincent's BC website at the Wayback Machine (archived August 7, 2002)
• DCU Saints on Facebook
• DCU Saints on Twitter