At club level he is a dual player with Liatroim Fontenoys and is also a member of the Down senior hurling team.
McCrickard first played hurling as a student at St Colman's College in Newry.
[1] McCrickard also played hurling during his time at St Mary's University College in Belfast, and was part of the Fergal Maher Cup-winning team in 2018.
[2] At club level, McCrickard first played for Liatroim Fontenoys in the various juvenile and underage grades, before later joining the club's adult teams as a dual player.
McCrickard was a back-to-back Christy Ring Cup runner-up in 2019 and 2020, however, in spite of those defeats he won a National Hurling League Division 2B medal in 2020.