Daithí Sands
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Daithí Ó Seachnasaigh | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Full-forward | ||
| Born |
1998 Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Portaferry | |||
| Club titles | |||
| Down titles | 1 | ||
| Colleges(s) | |||
| Years | College | ||
| Ulster University | |||
| College titles | |||
| Fitzgibbon titles | 0 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
2018-present | Down | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Ulster titles | 0 | ||
| All-Irelands | 0 | ||
| NHL | 0 | ||
| All Stars | 0 | ||
Daithí Sands (born 1998) is a Northern Irish hurler. At club level he plays with Portaferry and at inter-county level with the Down senior hurling team.
Career
[edit]McCrickard first played hurling as a student at St Patrick's Grammar School in Downpatrick.[1] He also played hurling during his time at the University of Ulster and lined out in the Ryan Cup and Conor McGurk Cup competitions.[2]
At club level, Sands first played for Portaferry in the various juvenile and underage grades, before later joining the club's adult team. He won a Down SHC medal after beating Ballycran in the 2020 final replay.[3]
Sands first lined out at inter-county level with Down during a two-year stint with the minor team in 2015 and 2016. He later lined out with the under-21 team before making his Down senior hurling team debut in 2018. Sands was a back-to-back Christy Ring Cup runner-up in 2019 and 2020, however, in spite of those defeats he won a National Hurling League Division 2B medal in 2020.[4][5][6] He was also named on the GAA/GPA Champion 15 in 2019.[7] Sands claimed a second personal accolade in 2022 when he was selected on the Joe McDonagh Cup Team of the Year.[8]
Career statistics
[edit]- As of match played 25 May 2024.
| Team | Year | National League | Ring Cup | McDonagh Cup | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| Down | 2018 | Division 2B | 4 | 1-06 | 3 | 6-05 | — | 7 | 7-11 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 3-08 | 5 | 7-08 | — | 8 | 10-16 | |||
| 2020 | 1 | 0-03 | 3 | 1-02 | — | 4 | 1-05 | |||
| 2021 | Division 2A | 5 | 1-06 | — | 2 | 1-04 | 7 | 2-10 | ||
| 2022 | 6 | 1-03 | — | 5 | 4-08 | 11 | 5-11 | |||
| 2023 | 2 | 0-04 | — | 5 | 0-03 | 7 | 0-07 | |||
| 2024 | 6 | 6-09 | — | 5 | 5-08 | 11 | 11-17 | |||
| Total | 27 | 12-39 | 11 | 14-15 | 17 | 10-23 | 55 | 36-77 | ||
Honours
[edit]Team
[edit]- Portaferry
- Down
Individual
[edit]- Awards
- Joe McDonagh Cup Team of the Year: 2022
- GAA/GPA Champion 15: 2019
References
[edit]- ^ "College Hurlers make History". Newry.ie. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "Gaelic Games: Ulster University defeat young Saffrons in Conor McGurk Cup". Belfast Media. 5 January 2022. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "Down SHC final replay: Sands seals the deal". Hogan Stand. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "Herity guides Kildare to Christy Ring Cup triumph over Down in Croke Park decider". The42.ie. 22 November 2020.
- ^ "Meath storm past Down to win Christy Ring Cup". Irish Examiner. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Down claim Division 2B title as Derry suffer another final defeat". Irish Examiner. 18 October 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Ring, Rackard, Meagher Champion 15 announced". GAA website. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Joe McDonagh Cup Team of the Year announced". GAA website. 19 October 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2024.