Alex Carlisle
Division One Player of the Year. A Vermont scoring machine who dropped 41 in the final to fire Limerick into the top flight.
The scorer who lit up the final.
Alex Carlisle grew up in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, and learned the game in cold gyms a long way from anywhere. By the time he reached Wheaton College in Massachusetts he was good enough to captain the side. He started all 71 games he played and left as the programme's ninth-leading scorer with 1,245 points, 17.5 a game. As a junior he topped the entire NEWMAC conference at 22.0 per game; as a senior he made the NEWMAC First Team and the NABC All-District Second Team, and one night he dropped a school-record 46 points. The scoring travelled with him.
He came to Limerick to study at TUS and the basketball came too. In his first Eagles season, 2024-25, he finished as the third-highest scorer in the league at 27.6 points a game, took College Player of the Year and dragged the TUS Mid-West side to a Division One college title. He is not a volume shooter who ignores everyone else, though. Carlisle reads a defence, picks his moment, and finds the open man when the double comes. The captaincy at Wheaton was earned on that basis, not handed over. Between games he turns up for more than just game nights, coaching the club's holiday camps alongside Ryan Leonard.
Year two was the one people will remember. He was named Domino's Men's Division One Player of the Year and March Player of the Month, then saved his best for last: 41 points and the MVP award in the Division One final as the Eagles beat Titans BC 82–63 to win promotion to the Super League. From a small state in New England to the top flight in Limerick, not bad for a lad nobody here had heard of two seasons ago.
“Unbelievable. He scored 38 in the semi-final and 41 in the final, and he can win you a game with his passing too.”
Head coach Niall McDermott on Carlisle, via Basketball Ireland2025-26 with the Eagles
Division One Player of the Year and March Player of the Month. Carlisle averaged big numbers all season, 32 points and 7 assists in the double-overtime win over Galway Titans, 27 v Mhaigh Cuilinn, and was named MVP of the Division One final after a 41-point display in the 82–63 win over Titans BC that sealed promotion to the Super League.
Profile sources Wheaton College Athletics roster & D3hoops.com (college stats, records, awards); Caledonian Record (All-Region honours); Limerick Sport Eagles club material (signing posts); Basketball Ireland (2025-26 Division One final report & Player of the Year).