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Ulster Elks was an Irish men's basketball team based in Jordanstown, Northern Ireland. The team competed in the Irish Super League and National League Division 1 and played its home games at the Ulster University Sports Centre.
In 1973, the Irish Basketball Association established a national basketball competition for men with two divisions. This saw many Dublin -based clubs enter their Men's A team into the top flight league, with the likes of Killester , St. Vincent's Dublin and Marian competing for supremacy against Cork -based clubs Blue Demons and Neptune . [ 1 ]
By the late 1960s/early 1970s, a Star of the Sea men's basketball team was playing in the Ulster League. In 1982–83, Dave Shehadi – an American from Bucknell University – became player-coach and this boost for the club resulted in the team entering the All-Ireland League in 1983–84 with John Copeland, a 6'9” Californian who played at ...
Other notable road racers from the province include Phillip McCallen, who took 11 TT wins, including four in one week in 1996, five wins out of six races at the 1992 North West 200, five wins on one day at the 1996 Ulster GP, as well as the Macau Grand Prix, [22] and Ryan Farquhar, another multiple winner at the TT, North West 200 and Ulster GP ...
Ulster University (Irish: Ollscoil Uladh; [1] Ulster Scots: Ulstèr Universitie [7] or Ulstèr Varsitie), legally the University of Ulster, [8] is a multi-campus public research university located in Northern Ireland. It is often referred to informally and unofficially as Ulster, or by the abbreviation UU.
In 2014–15, UCC Demons created history in Irish basketball by becoming the first side ever to remain undefeated for an entire season. They claimed the end-of-season Champions Trophy to add to their League and Cup titles in a campaign that saw them win 24 games in a row. [11] For the season, O'Reilly was named both Player and Coach of the Year ...
In 1973–74, Marian entered the inaugural National League with the Men's A team in Division One and the Men's B team in Division Two. After finishing runners-up behind Killester for three straight years between 1975 and 1977, Marian were crowned champions of the National League in 1978 after defeating St. Vincent's Dublin in the final. 1978 also saw Marian compete in the Federation Cup for ...
Killester Basketball Club is an Irish basketball club based in Dublin. The club's senior men's and women's representative teams, Pyrobel Killester, both play in Ireland's top national leagues with their home stadium being IWA Sports Hall in Clontarf .