San Antonio Gaelic Athletic Club

San Antonio Gaelic Athletic Club (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Naomh Antaine) known as The San Patricios is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in San Antonio, Texas and a member of the North American GAA since 2012. Currently the club has a men's Gaelic Football team, and a ladies' football team. Their club badge features the Alamo, as well as the San Antonio Riverwalk. The SAGAC is registered with the State of Texas as a Domestic Nonprofit Corporation.[1][2]

History

San Antonio Gaelic Athletic Club (Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Naomh Antaine), or the San Patricios was formed in San Antonio, Texas in 2011.

San Antonio Gaelic Athletic Club Kit

Uniform

The team kit is taken directly from the sky blue found on two of the earliest Texas flags of independence:[2] “Texas and Liberty” was inscribed on one side and a Latin inscription “Ubi, libertas habitat, ibi nostra patria est” (“Where liberty dwells, there is my country”) was also inscribed on the other.

The green found on the jersey represents the country that created Gaelic football, Ireland.

Sponsors

The Executive Club Sponsor of the SAGAC is the Lion and Rose Restaurant and Pub.[3] GLI the distributor of Guinness and Harp Lager have become major sponsors as of fall 2012[4]

The Irish Cultural Society of San Antonio, Ancient Order of Hibernians Columkille Division 1, and The Harp & Shamrock Society of Texas, all San Antonio Irish organizations have all been long time supporters and partners of the SAGAC. This year (2014), that will be commemorated as their crests will be added the 2014 SAGAC San Patricio Jerseys.

Pub League

In September 2011 the Lion and Rose Restaurant and Pub officially announced its decision to become the Sponsor of the SAGAC Pub League.[5] The SAGAC had made plans to follow in the footsteps of the Dallas GAA Team, "Fionn McCumhaill's Gaa Dallas" by creating a Pub League to help promote the Gaelic Football and increase the amount of competitive play time for each member. The SAGAC announced that the two teams of the inaugural Pub League would be named "The San Patricios" (named after the St. Patrick's Battalion of the Mexican American War) and the "Irish Citizen Army" named after James Connolly's Socialist Revolutionaries.

Active Roster

As of February 2014, the SAGAC has 58 men & women on their active roster (those who have played in either a National Tournament, Texas League or Pub League game). The Club is managed by Adrian Brett.

No. Player Position Club
1 Jerome Austin Mid Field West Plains, MO
2 Mono Aguilar Half Back San Antonio, TX
3 Jason Binkley Full Forward Fayetteville, NC
4 Adrian Brett Half Forward Cloonacool, Co. Sligo, Ireland
5 Daniel "Chris" Brown Goal Keeper Wheeling, WV
6 Betty Bowman Half Forward Indianapolis, IN
7 Gabe Castro Full Forward Cibolo, TX
8 Mike Castro Half Back San Antonio, TX
9 Brian Clark (O'Cleirigh) Corner Back Shawnee,OK (Co. Cork/Co. Galway)
10 Andy Claughton Corner Back Corpus Christi, TX
11 Keith Connolly Full Forward Hawthorne, NY
12 Brendan Cullinane Full Forward Beltsville, MD
13 Michael Cunningham Full Forward
14 Will Damron Half Forward San Antonio, TX
15 Clive Davidson Mid Field Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
16 Jeff Davis Half Back San Antonio, TX
17 Thomas Deegan Mid Field Templemore, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
18 Mike Dirksen Jr. Mid Field San Antonio, TX
19 Laura Domyancic Full Forward Okinawa & Misawa, Japan / San Antonio, TX
20 CJ Eschlinger Corner Back Wichita, KS
21 Jason Gray Half Forward New Orleans, LA
22 Carlos Hernandez Corner Back San Antonio, TX
23 Brad Hickey Mid Field San Antonio, TX
24 Sean J. Hipp Full Back Philadelphia, PA
25 Josh Hunt Mid Field O'Brien, TX
26 Phil Johnston Full Forward Decatur, IL
27 Jeff Justice Mid Field San Antonio, TX
28 Chris King Half Forward San Antonio, TX
29 Robert McDaniel San Antonio, TX
30 Daryl Mcghiey Half Forward San Antonio, TX
No. Player Position Club
31 Jon Mcghiey Corner Back San Antonio, TX
32 Kevin McManus Half Forward Portaferry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
33 Shane Mullane Half Forward Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, Ireland
34 Marian Nagle Corner Back Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, Ireland
35 Lucky Nichols Goal Keeper San Antonio, TX
36 Terri Nichols Half Forward San Antonio, TX
37 Michael O'Brien
38 Jimmy O'Halligan Corner Back Houston, TX
39 David O'Keefe Half Forward Effin, Co. Limerick, Ireland
40 Rick Ortiz Corner Back San Antonio, TX
41 Tim O'Sullivan Full Back Bronx, NY
42 Jacobo Paz Goal Keeper San Pedro Sula, Honduras
43 Michael Patrick Corner Back San Antonio, TX
44 Erin Perez Corner Back San Antonio, TX
45 Gabe Perez Corner Back San Antonio, TX
46 Juan Pina Full Forward
47 Stevie Quinn Half Forward Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
48 Scott Rankin Half Back Tehachapi, CA
49 Christian Sanchez Full Forward Mexico City, Mexico
50 Matt Scott Half Forward Cibolo, TX
51 Gerry Sheridan Half Forward Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Ireland
52 JT Thompson Half Back Lubbock, TX
53 Katie Thompson Half Forward Paint Creek, TX
54 Chris Thompson Mid Field San Antonio, TX
55 Tyler Tully Corner Back Moore, OK
56 Mario Villanueva Half Back Monterrey, Mexico / San Antonio, TX
57 Daniel White Full Forward San Antonio, TX
58 Rob Wilson Half Forward San Antonio, TX

References
  1. "San Antonio Gaelic Athletic Club". Sanantoniogac.org. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  2. Moody, Joan (2011-07-27). "GAA teams do battle in Alamo's shadow". The Irish Echo. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
  3. Thompson, Katie (2011-07-20). "The Lion and Rose Blog". Archived from the original on 2012-07-21. Retrieved 2011-09-09. The Lion & Rose is a proud sponsor and supporter of the San Antonio Gaelic Athletics Club!
  4. "San Antonio Gaelic Athletic Club". Sanantoniogac.org. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
  5. Thompson, Katie (2011-07-20). "The Lion and Rose Blog". Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. Retrieved 2011-09-09. We’re happy to announce we will be the Official Sponsors of the San Antonio Gaelic Athletics Club Pub League!
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