NUIG Mystics latest club to achieve BI Bronze Club Mark

NUIG Mystics are the latest club to be awarded the Bronze Basketball Ireland Club Mark. We caught up with coach Kyle Walsh to talk about the club and its award.

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Club history

- Irish National Senior Cup Winner 2016

- Irish Division 1 Regular Season Champion 2016

- Irish Division 1 Champion 2016

- Irish Division 1 President Cup Winner 2022

- Irish Division 1 Southern Conference Champions 2022

Foireann Chispheile na Gailimhe [NUIG Mystics] was founded in 2012. We currently only have a women's National League team, but hope to expand soon. The club has always consisted of a variety of different players from various Galway clubs. This allows the woman to play at the national league level, without taking them from their own club, as many players structure link in. This also allows for our players to go back and help their respective clubs

We want to be able to hold ourselves to the highest standard possible to ensure the best practices and procedures throughout our club, all of which should help us progress as a club.

It was a long process to get all the correct paperwork in place, but we are sure it will be worth it in the long run.

Finding volunteers is our biggest challenge, as our club has no underage system. It can be hard to get people to help, as many of the people in the basketball community already do so much for their own clubs in Galway.

The hope is that it is a stepping stone to the higher marks. Which in turn will make our club run as professionally as possible.

Yes we will but it will take us some time, there is a few areas which we will need to do more work, most of which  will be setting up a volunteer structure, additional events to raise funds for the club and the continuing development in all the different areas of the game (coaching development plan, player pathways and officials).

The goal for this season is to gain promotion to the Women's Super League.

I would highly recommend the process as it promotes the best practice for clubs to take in order to develop on all levels (coaches, players ,officials and volunteers), all of which are required for basketball to grow.

If your club would like to apply for the Basketball Ireland Club Mark award, check out all the details here, or please contact Basketball Ireland Leinster Development Officer Paul Carr at pcarr@basketballireland.ie