Dean Mason (hurler)

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Dean Mason
Personal information
Irish name Dean Másún
Sport Hurling
Position Goalkeeper
Born (2000-10-03) 3 October 2000 (age 24)
Ballyhale,
County Kilkenny, Ireland
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Club(s)
YearsClub
2018-present
 Ballyhale Shamrocks
Club titles
Kilkenny titles 5
Leinster titles 4
All-Ireland Titles 3
Colleges(s)
YearsCollege
 University of Limerick
College titles
Fitzgibbon titles 2
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
2022-present
 Kilkenny
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles 2
All-Irelands 0
NHL 0
All Stars 0

Dean Mason (born 3 October 2000 [1] ) is an Irish hurler. At club level he plays as a goalkeeper with Ballyhale Shamrocks and at inter-county level with the Kilkenny senior hurling team.

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Career

Mason had a number of hurling successes as a student at St Kieran's College in Kilkenny. He won two Leinster Colleges SHC titles, as well as consecutive Croke Cup titles in 2018 and 2019. [2] [3] Mason later lined out with University of Limerick and was part of their Fitzgibbon Cup-winning teams in 2022 and 2023. [4]

At club level, Mason first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Ballyhale Shamrocks club. He had several underage successes, including the Kilkenny MAHC title in 2016 and consecutive Kilkenny U21AHC titles in 2017 and 2018. [5] Mason was just 17-years-old when he became the club's senior team goalkeeper. Over the course of the following few years, he won five consecutive Kilkenny SHC titles, four Leinster Club SHC titles and three All-Ireland Club SHC titles. [6] [7] [8]

Mason was 16-years-old when he first played on the inter-county scene with Kilkenny as a member of the minor team. [9] He won a Leinster MHC medal in 2017, however, a change in the age limit meant that this was his only year in that grade. Mason won a Leinster U2HC medal in 2019. [10] He joined the senior team's extended panel as third-choice goalkeeper in 2022. Mason won consecutive Leinster SHC medals in 2022 and 2023.

Personal life

His granduncle, Maurice Mason, also played for Ballyhale Shamrocks and captained Kilkenny in 1981. [11]

Honours

St Kieran's College
University of Limerick
Ballyhale Shamrocks
Kilkenny

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