Emmanuel Adegboyega

Emmanuel Adegboyega

 

Name: Emmanuel Adegboyega  
 

What year did you leave the Marist? – I left Marist in 2021

 
 

What are your favourite memories of the Marist?– Would be playing sports at lunch time and with the school teams.

 
 

 

Were you a boarder day pupil? No I wasnt

 

 

 

 
What subjects from school are/were most helpful to you? The subjects that were most helpful to me was business and biology  
 

 

 

Were you part of any club or team while in school? Memories of this? I was part of the football team, and we won the Leinster cup for the first time for the school, I was also captain of the team. Was also part of the athletics and basketball teams.

 

 

 

 

 
Are you in contact with any of your class? Currently I am still in contact with some people from my class.

 

 
What has your career path been since you left the Marist? So, after leaving Marist, I attended university at DCU while still playing football in the League of Ireland at underage and senior level. Currently I have relocated to the UK after being signed for Norwich City FC to pursue my career in professional football.

 

 

 

 
If you attended College -what college/s did you attend? I attended Dublin City University.  
 

What course did you study? I studied Sports Science and Health.

 
What did the course involve subjects/assessment etc? The course involved a vast range of biology.  
Is/was there a lot of study to do? Of course, there was continual assessment, end of semester exams and practicals.

 

 
Can you tell us about what your current job involves? My current job involves me kicking a ball around a pitch for 90 minutes. Also train 5-6 times a week in a full-time set-up along with gym work.  
 

What advice would you give to our current Marist students? Enjoy your time at Marist as you won’t get anything like it again because to this day I still look back and laugh at all the memories I made.