New Basketball Season here we go!!!

The 2013-14 season has arrived. The NULC basketball team will be looking to retain its two year dominance in the BCS West Midlands Conference Wednesday against Sandwell academy in West Bromwich. Coach Jamison is working with a... new look squad and had this to say, “I’m sure we are probably the favorites to three peat this year but in reality we have all new faces, nobody from last year’s teams has returned. I like our chances, but I'm more concerned with developing the new crop of young men in to becoming the best student athletes the can be!!See more

NULC Basketball Players University bound

It has been a very successful season this year for Newcastle under Lyme College basketball team. NULC was again crowned BCS West Midlands champs for the second year in a row. The basketball squad then went out and won the 3v3 National cup championship. NULC basketball players have managed to achieve success off the court as well. Four NULC basketball players will be attending Universities across the country this year. Coach Jamison said, “These four young men represent everything that I’m trying to do here at NULC which is giving young men and educational platform to succeed and teaching them to play the game of basketball the right way. I would like to thank the guys for allowing me to coach them and be a part of their lives.”

Jamie Brunsdon- Manchester Metropolitan University
Kubilay Dilek- Staffs University
Mohammed Zaid- Keele University
Jack Hulme- Bath University

A great first day back in for the TEAM:NULC Squads

This Wednesday saw the majority of the TEAM:NULC squads taking part in their first games of the season after all the hard work of pre-season.

 

It seems that all the hard work is paying off as every team playing managed to win their game leaving a 100% record for the day.

 

·       Midland Floodlit Men's Football- TEAM:NULC 6 - 0 Greenhill Town FC

·       Category 1 Men's Football – Strachan Football Foundation 3  - 4  TEAM:NULC

·       Category 2 Men's Football – TEAM:NULC 4 – 1   S-o-T 6^th Form 1st

·       Category 3 Men's Football -  NULC 7 -  2   Halesowen College 2nd

·       Men’s Basketball- Sandwell College 56 – 80  TEAM:NULC

·       Ladies Netball- TEAM:NULC  62 -  22  Dudley College

 

A great start to the season for NULC with 100% win success rate.

 

Credit to all the coaches for the hard work put over the holiday period to prepare the teams especially with the new 1^st year students who will be looking to continue the previous year’s success of NULC’s Sport Academy.

 

TEAM OF THE WEEK – NULC Category 1 Football Squad

 

Academy of Sport Visit St George's Park Again !!

Last Monday and Wednesday the college was privileged enough to be able to take students across to St Georges Park.  On Monday 16th September there was 16 students and 22 students on Wednesday 18th September.

We were invited to take students across to take part in the International Coaches Course.  The delegates are from all over the world and come to St Georges Park to learn how FA Coaching sessions are delivered and structured.   The delegates came from very diverse backgrounds, although Oscar? Is worth a mention, he played in 3 world cups for Brazil, being 1978, 1982 and 1986.  One Argentine was head of Football Development for Boca Juniors.  “It comes to something when we are teaching the Brazilians how to Coach Football?”

 

The Day

Once we’d parked up, we all met in main reception and were welcomed and shown to a large changing room which had been allocated to NULC specifically.  The lads got changed quickly before we were escorted to the indoor Astroturf arena.  Again, we were met by 3 English FA Coaches that were all very nice and very approachable and very appreciative of the lads making the effort.  The Coaches explained how the day was going to work and what was expected of the players.

Basically, our players were going to be coached a specific Topic of football, this was to show the delegates how to set up the session and what points needed to be made by the coach to the players.

Each session was structured so that the session always developed into a game situation, so that the players were able to practice what they had been working on.

Once the morning session was over we went back to the changing room were a packed lunch had been prepared for us all.  After Lunch had gone down, we were all given a whistle stop tour of St Georges Park.  This was a real, ‘eye opener’ for the players to see England’s Changing facilities and the exact replica of Wembley, right down to the last detail.  The facilities are obviously second to none, but it also emphasized the importance placed on training in order to succeed.

After the break the lads were back out on the outdoor pitches for much of the same, but covering different topics.  The outdoor pitches were of the highest quality as you would expect, although still not quite to the standard of Derek’s, here at NULC.

Overall the lads were very well behaved and very receptive to the Coach’s needs.  The Coaches were extremely appreciative of the efforts made by the lads.  The Staff from St Georges Park stated that they were keen to continue to develop this relationship with our college and said that they would inform us of the next event in due course.

Our lads really enjoyed the day, they were all having some good banter on the way home as they recalled various things that they had experienced throughout the day.

I heard them saying things like;

 “That was awesome”

“I really enjoyed that”

“That was sick”

“Will we get the chance to come to St Georges Again?”

“This isn’t bad for 2^nd week in college”

 

Overall a great couple of days had by all.

 

 

TEAM:NULC Sports Results- Wednesday 18th September 2013

TEAM:NULC Sports Results- Wednesday 18th September 2013

It was back to work for the new season a week early for some of the college Academy squads as cup fixtures beckoned for the ladies Football and Men's Rugby squads, and the first league fixture for the men's Category 3 football squad.

It will prove to be long and arduous season as the number of squads and sports offered has increased.

 

 

Results for Wednesday 18th September 2013

Men’s Rugby (home)- TEAM:NULC 0-55 Ellesmere College

 

Men's Floodlit Football (away)- TEAM:NULC 1-1 Hinckley Town

Men’s CAT 3 Football (home)- TEAM:NULC 3-3 Stafford College 2nd

 

Ladies Football (home)- TEAM:NULC 12-2 Cheadle & Marple 6th Form

 

Performance of the week

The performance of the week has to go to the ladies football squad who started the season as they mean to go on. Well done.

 

The British Colleges leagues all start next week and all Academy squads will be in action so we wish them all luck!!

Hoopskills/ NULC Basketball “Makes it Happen” Camp a success!!

What a great day of basketball at the Gordon Banks Sports Centre!! The annual basketball festival which is put on by Coach Shawn Jamison and his Hoopskills organization did not disappoint once again. The two coaches for the day were Shawn Jamison and Malcolm Leak. Jamison kicked off the festival by addressing the attendees and speaking on everything from training habits, motivation, playing ball in the US, and the definition of the festivals theme. Coach Leak would also address the attendees and give his take on basketball here in the UK, self motivation, and reaching your full potential as a basketball player. When the two coaches were done speaking the theme of the festival would be put to the forefront “Make it Happen.” Coach Jamison gave his take on the festivals theme,” We as ball players have the unique ability to make things happen, through hard work and dedication there is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to fulfil your life’s dreams and goals, I am living proof of this.”

Welcome Back!!!

Hi Everyone and welcome back to the new college year. Preparations have been going well for the new British Colleges season with all squads having been in for pre-season training.

This year the Academy of Sport has grown again and welcomes the following new members of staff:

Carolyn Owen- Head Netball Academy Coach (starting October)
Ami Pickerill- Assistant Netball Academy Coach
Nathan Sutton- Football Academy Coach
Tana Owen- Sports Therapist

I am sure that these new additions will only strengthen the sports programmes as we look forward to hopefully another successful year.

British Colleges Sport fixtures start on Wednesday 25th September with all squads being involved so the season will start with a bang.

As always you can follow the results and news stories on here or via our facebook page which can be found at NULC Academy of Sport.