DCU Saints (basketball)

DCU Saints
Leagues	Super League
Founded	1973; 49 years ago (1973) as St. Vincent's
History	St. Vincent's 1973–2007 DCU Saints 2007–present
Arena	DCU Sports Complex
Location	Dublin, Ireland
Team colours	Blue & yellow
Head coach	Mark Kiernan
Championships	3 (1979, 1994, 2006)
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] The Irish National League was created in 1973, with St. Vincent's winning their first league title in 1979. The team won two more league titles in 1993–94 and 2005–06.^[2] The team also won National Cup titles in 1984, 1993 and 1994.^[3] In 1999, the team won their fifth National Championship.^[4]

For the 2000–01 season, the team was known as O'Hagan Saints.^[5] For the 2002–03 season, the team was known as Irish Travel Partner Saints.^[6][7] 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.^[8]

Achievements[]

• 3× Irish National League champions: 1979, 1994, 2006^[2]
• 3× Irish National Cup champions: 1984, 1993, 1994^{[citation needed]}

References[]

External links[]

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