Dublin, Ireland - Former Manhattan College women's basketball player and current Sport Changes Life
Victory Scholar Maeve Parahus was recently named a 2017-18 Basketball Ireland All-Star. Parahus, who graduated from Manhattan in 2017, plays basketball for Ireland's IT Carlow, and was named to Basketball Ireland's Women's Super League All Star Team Three.
This past season, Parahus helped IT Carlow to an 8-8 overall record, shooting 34.6 percent from the floor for the season. The 12th Jasper in program history to hit 100 threes in their collegiate career, she went 33-88 from beyond the arc for IT Carlow, earning the second-highest three-point shooting percentage on the team. Parahus averaged three rebounds per game, as well as 1.8 steals and 1.5 assist per contest.
Basketball Ireland All Stars were voted for by the head coaches of every team in each of the four Basketball Ireland National League divisions: Men's Super League, Women's Super League, Men's Division One, and Women's Division One. Coaches were given a shortlist of players that were named Players of the Month throughout the season, and were also given a wildcard vote in each category.
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Sport Changes Life organization aims to raise the aspirations of young people through sporting excellence, vocational and academic achievement, and personal development. Each year, new Victory Scholars are selected to help change the lives of young people and enable them to develop a global perspective and build life-long friendships with people and communities throughout Ireland. While playing basketball through the
Victory Scholar program, Parahus is also pursuing a graduate degree in sports performance at Carlow Institute of Technology, located approximately an hour and a half southwest of Dublin.
