Irish Basketball Association Women’s Super League 1997-2003

BI Women’s Super League 1997-98

 PWLPFPAPts
Avonmore Snowcream Wildcats16160  48
Openet Naomh Mhuire16133  42
Tolka Rovers16124  40
Meteors16106  36
Blarney Spring1688  32
Killester1679  30
Supermacs Limerick16511  26
Riverisland Castleisland16115  18
Lee Strand Tralee16115  18

[1]

DateHome Team Away Team 
 Semi-Finals   
 Snowcream Wildcats65Meteors43
 Tolka Rovers64Naomh Mhuire61 ot
 Final   
 Snowcream Wildcats82Tolka Rovers68

[2]

BI Women’s Super League 1998-99

 PWLPFPAPts
Avonmore Snowcrem Wildcats16142  44
Tolka Rovers1697  34
Meteors1697  34
Killester16610  28
Supermacs Limerick16214  20

[3]

DateHome Team Away Team 
 
Quarter-Finals
   
 Crusaders55Killester91
 Meteors59Supermacs Limerick36
 Firhouse Coasters50Tolka Rovers73
 
Semi-Finals
   
 Snowcream Wildcats84Tolka Rovers82
 Killester63Meteors45
 
Final
   
 Snowcream Wildcats68Killester61

[4][5][6]

BI Women’s Super League 1999-2000

 PWLPFPAPts
Tolka Rovers20173  34
Avonmore Snowcream Wildcats20173  34
Meteors20119  22
University of Limerick20812  16
Killester20614  12
Crusaders20119  2

[7]

DateHome Team Away Team 
 
Quarter-Finals
   
 Tolka Rovers81Portlaoise Panthers50
 Meteors87Blarney30
 Killester61University of Limerick46
 Snowcream Wildcats106Crusaders32
 
Semi-Finals
   
 Snowcream Wildcats80Killester53
 Meteors52Tolka Rovers48
 
Final
   
 Snowcream Wildcats57Meteors44

[8][9]

BI Women’s Super League 2000-01

 PWLPFPAPts
*Wildcats15132  26
Tolka Rovers14104  20
University of Limerick1578  14
Sasha Meteors15411  8
Killester15312  6

[10]

League abandoned 7 March 2001 due to outbreak of foot-and-mouth-disease and title awarded to Wildcats as they couldn’t be caught by their nearest challengers

BI Women’s Super League 2001-02

 PWLPFPAPts
*Tolka Rovers15123  24
*Waterford Wildcats15114  22
*University of Limerick15105  20
*DART Killester1569  12
Meteors15510  10
Glanmire15114  2

[11]

DateHome Team Away Team 
 
Semi-Finals
   
 Tolka Rovers59Killester50
 Bausch & Lomb Wildcats41University of Limerick65
 
Final
   
 Tolka Rovers66University of Limerick59

[12][13]

BI Women’s Super League 2002-03

 PWLPFPAPts
*University of Limerick16151  30
*Bausch & Lomb Wildcats16133  26
*St. Paul’s Killarney16106  20
*Sasha Meteors1697  18
DART Killester1688  16
Tolka Rovers1679  14
Drimnagh Dynamoes1679  14
Glanmire16313  6
Tipperary Talons16016  0

[14]

DateHome Team Away Team 
 

Semi-Finals

   
 St. Paul’s Killarney62Wildcats57
 University of Limerick72Sasha Meteors57
 

Final

   
 University of Limerick70St. Paul’s Killarney56

[15]

Report

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The Amateur Basketball Association of Ireland was founded in 1947 and set up the first National League for men in 1971. In 1979 the League brought in professional players from America and the ABAI became the Irish Basketball Association and also started up the first Women’s League with a 1st and 2nd Division.

In 1997 the two Divisions were merged into one Women’s Super League, with a Regional League bbelow this, which in 2003 reverted back to two Divisions – Super League and Division 1 – with another rebranding of the Association to Basketball Ireland.

Wildcats of Waterford won the first Super League title in 1997-98 defeating Tolka Rovers 82-68 in the Final, and the following year they defeated  Killester 68-61, They completed a hat-trick of Super League titles in 1999-2000 winning against Dublin’s  Meteors 57-44. In the 2000-01 season they were awarded the title after the league was abandoned due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease as they were too far ahead to be caught by their nearest challengers.

The 2001-02 season saw the wildcats knocked off the top spot when Tolka Rovers finally won the title 66-59 in the Final against the University of Limerick. The students of Limerick, however, would come back stronger the following year and win the final 70-56 against St. Paul’s Killarney in an All-Munster Final.

This marked the end of an era as in 2003 the IBA rebranded as Basketball Ireland.

References

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Internet Archive

[38] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Basketball Ireland (2004) SuperLeagues Womens Results – League Table from the 17th of July [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20040717140926/http://www.basketballireland.ie/asp/results.asp?leagueID=13 [Accessed 26 March 2017]

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[40] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Basketball Ireland (2007) Womens – SuperLeague [Internet] available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20070703030653/http://www.superleagueball.ie/ [Accessed 26 March 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ann Hanley, Killester and Ireland National Team.

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Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 13 January 2019

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