Students selected for West Midlands Representative Squads

A number of Newcastle-under-Lyme College students have been selected to represent the West Midlands in regional squads. Each student attended trials last week across the West Midlands in rugby, netball, hockey and football and competed against students from across the region.

The following students have been selected:

Men's Ruby
Zac Chadwick
Sam Longstaff
Chris Yates
Ben Adams
Peter Manning

Hockey
Kieran Bedford
Jenny Evans   

Men's Football
Callum Kenny
Callum Lovatt

Ladies Football
Ellie Fox
Emily Day
Shannon Weston
Paris O'Connor

Netball
Dom Ford Gordon
Jessica Barnes
Molly Lines

All the students will now move through to the next national trial phase from which the English Colleges sides will be selected.

West Midlands Female 3v3 IM Basketball Festival

The Gordon Banks Sports Centre at Newcastle under Lyme College (NULC) played host to the first West Midlands 3v3 IM Basketball festival on the Wednesday 9^th October.

IM Basketball is one of England Basketball’s initiatives aimed at increasing participation by helping anyone get involved in basketball regardless of age, gender, size or ability. Approximately 35 – 40 female students took part in the festival which was aimed at providing some fun competition as an exit route for female college students involved in intra college activities.

The festival was also aimed at providing a platform for student leaders to gain experience in running events. A group of four student volunteers from NULC oversaw the proceedings on the day, meeting and greeting, organising fixtures and results and officiating, all with the moral support of Dave Sutton, NULC’s College Sports Maker and Trevor Humphries, the Academy of Sport Manager. Two of NULC’s student volunteers involved were the West Midlands Regional Youth Council members Beth Wragg and Abbie Jackson.

Abbie, who is studying at the college as the Academy of Sport Apprentice, said ‘It was so much fun running this festival, and to see a good number of girls wanting to take part’

Birmingham Metropolitan, Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form, NULC and the City of Stoke on Trent Sixth Form Colleges all took part in the festival, each brining two teams. The flexible fun approach to day also meant those few extra students who wanted to participate were rotated in to ensure all had the opportunity to take part. Each team played each other once during the afternoon with Birmingham Met A topping the festival table.

Trevor Humphries said, ‘It was a fantastic opportunity for us to host this festival for the region and to provide our students with an opportunity to develop their event management skills within an inter college competition environment.’

 

 

TEAM:NULC Sports Results: Wednesday 16th October 2013

This Wednesday saw a packed week of fixtures for many of the squads and all players and coaches wanted to continue the great work developed over the last few weeks.


It was another great week as a number squads remained unbeaten and continued to show the strength and depth of TEAM:NULC.

 

·       Midland Floodlit Men's Football- (away) TEAM:NULC 1 - 0 Hednesford Town FC

 

·       Category 1 Men's Football – (away) TEAM:NULC 0-5 BMET Stourbridge College

 

·       Category 2 Men's Football – (away)TEAM:NULC 4 – 2   Dudley College 2^nd 

 

·       Category 3 Men's Football – (away) TEAM:NULC 6 -  0  Stoke 6^th Form College 2nd

 

·       Ladies Football- (home) TEAM:NULC 0- 2 Thomas Telford 6^th Form

 

·       Men’s Basketball- (away) TEAM:NULC 78- 42 Worcester 6^th Form College

 

·       Ladies Netball- (away) TEAM:NULC  62 -  32  Dyson Perrins College

 

·       Men’s Rugby- (away) TEAM:NULC 37-5 Highfields School Matlock

 

 

TEAM OF THE WEEK – Men’s Rugby Squad

 
The men's rugby squad have to get team of the week as they progressed into the next round of the Natwest Vase tournament against very strong opposition. Well done to the coaching staff and lads.

TEAM:NULC Sports Results- Wednesday 9th October

This Wednesday was the day of regional trials for both the ladies and men’s football, netball, rugby and hockey. The football squads took 5 students each down to the trials which were held in Walsall at the Bescott stadium and the Pulse Fitness and Soccer centre in Wednesbury. The day involved trial based sessions and games put on by the selectors for each sport. In total there was 36 trialists in both the ladies and men’s trials, with those students coming from colleges all over the west midlands.

The NULC girls did really well, did themselves and the college proud with their performances and we have high hopes for them all to get selected. Again just as the girls, the men’s players did they did themselves and the college proud with their performances. We are hoping that again they get selected having seen how well they did in the trials.

The netball and hockey trials were held at Warwickshire college and TEAM:NULC sent 5 netballers and 1 hockey player. All of the students did extremely well and we should hear if any were selected early next week.

The men’s rugby was a local affair as it was held at Trentham rugby club. TEAM:NULC were well represented with 10 players trying to make the midlands squad. Again we should hear early next week on whether they have progressed.

Overall it was a great day for the students to go down and showcase their abilities and we are hoping to hear back from the selectors who has and hasn’t been selected for the next round.

TEAM:NULC Sports Results

 

·        Midland Floodlit Men's Football- (away) TEAM:NULC 2 - 3 Ellesmere Rangers FC

 

·        Category 4 Men's Football – (home) TEAM:NULC 12-1 Keele University

 

 

TEAM OF THE WEEK – All regional trialists

 

All the students who competed in the regional trials should be proud of their achievements. Well done!!!

College student shines at Hockey Trials!

 

One of Newcastle-under-Lyme colleges sports stars has once again had success on the hockey field. Keiran Bedford has been selected to feature in the England Hockey Futures Cup, which could eventually lead to the full England set-up.

What is the England Hockey Futures Cup?
The England Hockey Board Futures Cup is a competition which forms part of Junior Regional Performance Centre (JRPC) Tier 2 activity. The EHFC is for players in the U16 and U18 age groups, who are selected for squads from JRPC Tier 1 activity. These squads are called the Saxon Tigers, Pennine Pumas, Wessex Leopards and Mercia Lynx.
The EHFC aims to give players in the U16 and U18 age groups first-hand experience of an international tournament environment, in preparation for potential future involvement in a National Age Group Squad (NAGS). Selected players from the Futures Cup will be invited to attend National Age Group Squads (NAGS) (U16 & U18) training. 

The U18 age group will play a round robin competition over three days followed by classification matches on the fourth day. Squads will also be involved in training days leading up to the tournaments.

The Academy of Sport would like to say a huge congratulations to Keiran and good luck in the cup.

TEAM:NULC Sports Results- Wednesday 2nd October 2013

This Wednesday saw the second week of fixtures for many of the squads and all players and coaches wanted to continue the great work that started last week.

It was another great week as all the squads remained unbeaten and continued to show the strength and depth of TEAM:NULC.

 

·        Midland Floodlit Men's Football- (away) TEAM:NULC 2 - 0 Hereford United FC

 

·        Category 1 Men's Football – (home) TEAM:NULC 3-1 TCAT

 

·        Category 2 Men's Football – (away)TEAM:NULC 2 – 2   Codsall 6^th Form 1st

 

·        Category 3 Men's Football – (away) TEAM:NULC 4 -  2   Walsall College 2nd

 

·        Category 4 Men’s Football – (home) TEAM:NULC 3-2 JCB Academy 6^th Form

 

·       Category 5/6 Men’s Football (home) TEAM:NULC 4-2 JCB Academy Year 11

 

·       Men’s Basketball- (home) TEAM:NULC 96- 24 Warwickshire College

 

·       Ladies Basketball- (away) TEAM:NULC 41- 37 Birmingham Met College

 

·       Ladies Netball- TEAM:NULC  39 -  32  Keele University 1^st Team

 

A great week for all and a major achievement was that we had over 120 students representing the college in football alone.

TEAM OF THE WEEK – Ladies Basketball Squad

The ladies basketball squad have to get team of the week as they managed to defeat the traditional powerhouse of ladies basketball in the region Birmingham Met College. What makes it even better is that is was the ladies first game together. Well done to all the students and staff.