Bective appoint David McAllister as New U20’s Head Coach

Bective are delighted to confirm the appointment of David McAllister as U20’s Head Coach for the coming season. David joins our U’20’s management team of We Wa Power, Emmett Sheridan , Mick Sweeney, Johnny Vaughan and Tim O‘Flanagan.

David is a former Leinster Senior professional player in the mid 2000’s with 7 caps but unfortunately, his early career was cut short by injury.

His earlier playing career was on the perfect upward trajectory of a young player with ambitions of being a pro-player where McAllister was no doubt earmarked as one for the future, at that time.
With an impressive early playing career resume, David can boast: –
• contesting 2 Schools Senior Cup Finals for Terenure College, victorious in one
• playing for St. John’s College, Hamilton, and Waikato U-19s in New Zealand
• being a member of the Irish Elite Academy
• representing Leinster at Schools, U-21s and Leinster A
• representing Ireland at Schools, U-21s and Ireland A
before embarking on a professional senior career at Leinster and in Italy.

David has also played Senior AIL with Terenure, Clontarf and was a player/coach with Monkstown.

His more recent coaching career has seen him take up roles with Terenure College SCT, Blackrock College SCT, Leinster Youths, Leinster U19’s,Terenure U20’s and Buccaneers U20’s, as well as his current roles as Head Coach with Technological University Dublin and the SCT at the High School, Rathgar, this season bringing the school to their first major Senior Schools Cup Final in over 50 years.

David brings a wealth of experience to our U20’s Programme and together with his knowledge of the game and enthusiasm and ambition for this role, we have no doubt that our U20’s squad and management will reap the benefits over the course of the coming seasons.

Everyone at Bective welcomes David to Donnybrook as our U20’s Head Coach and we wish him and his team the best of luck for the 2024-25 Season.