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Ryan Leonard, Cian Sullivan and Kieran Donaghy have been named on the Irish basketball squad.
THE success of Garvey’s Tralee Warriors has not gone unnoticed this season, with two of their players making the Irish basketball squad.
Kieran Donaghy and Ryan Leonard are among the 20 players named in head coach Pete Strickland’s squad.
There are eight of the 12 Men’s Super League teams represented on the squad which also includes another Tralee man, Cian Sullivan, who plays his basketball over in La Salle University in Philadelphia.
The former Mercy Mounthawk student went to the US on a scholarship in 2015 and is currently starring for the university’s Explorers team.
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The Irish squad is to get together in early April to prepare for the 2018 Small Nations Tournament.
Meanwhile Warriors got a great write up from ballineurope.com where journalist Emmet Ryan describes the experience at the Tralee side’s game on Saturday night against Swords, which is well worth a read (click here).
Ireland’s 20-man squad: Adrian O’Sullivan (UCC Demons), Cian Sullivan (La Salle University), Ciaran O’Sullivan (UCC Demons), Ciaran Roe (Pyrobel Killester), Colin O’Reilly (UCC Demons), Conor Meany (UCD Marian), Daniel James (UCD Marian), Eoghain Kiernan (Pyrobel Killester), Issac Westbrooks (Griffith Swords Thunder), Jason Killeen (Templeogue), John Carroll (University of Hartford), Jordan Blount (University of Illinois), Keelan Cairns (Belfast Star), Kieran Donaghy (Garvey’s Tralee Warriors), Lorcan Murphy (Templeogue), Neil Randolph (Templeogue), Paul Dick (most recently Fuenlabrada, Madrid), Paul Freeman (SSE Airtricity Moycullen), Roy Downey (UCC Demons), Ryan Leonard (Garvey’s Tralee Warriors)
