| Daithí Sands | |
| Irish: | Daithí Ó Seachnasaigh |
| Birth Date: | 1998 |
| Birth Place: | Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Code: | Hurling |
| County: | Down |
| Province: | Ulster |
| Club: | Portaferry |
| Clcounty: | 1 |
| Colleges: | Ulster University |
| Fitz: | 0 |
| Counties: | Down |
| Icyears: | 2018-present |
| Icposition: | Full-forward |
| Icprovince: | 0 |
| Icallireland: | 0 |
| Nhl: | 0 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Icupdate: | 11:49, 26 March 2024 |
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.
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]
| 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 | |||
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