2 more internationals are added to the Academy of Sport Squad

Newcastle-under-Lyme College’s Academy of Sport is celebrating as 2 more students have recently been selected for national representative squads. Jessica Barnes has been selected for the English Colleges under 19’s Ladies Netball squad and Taz Wara for the English Colleges under 19 men’s Rugby Squad. These 2 students will now join Keiran Bedford who was earlier selected for the Under 19’ England Hockey squad. All of the students went through a number of local, regional and national trials to achieve this amazing success.

The 3 students formed a group of 15 students that reached the West Midlands squads, and further re-enforces Newcastle-under-Lyme’s College’s status as one of the top in the West Midlands. A fact supported by the college being named West Midlands College of the year for 2012.  

All of the students form part of the Colleges Elite Sports Performance programme and regularly compete for the colleges Academy programmes.

TEAM:NULC Sports Results- Wednesday 22nd January

ACADEMY OF SPORT

SPORTS RESULTS THIS WEEK- WEDNESDAY 22^nd January 

·       Midland Floodlit Men’s Football- (home) TEAM:NULC 2-1 Solihull Moors FC

·       Category 1 Men's Football – (away) TEAM:NULC 2-5 South Gloucestershire & Stroud College

·       Category 2 Men's Football – (away) TEAM:NULC 1-0 Stoke 6th Form 1st

·       Category 5 Men’s Football (home) TEAM:NULC 3-0 Staffordshire University 3^rd

·       Men’s Basketball- (home) TEAM:NULC 80-45 Hereford 6th Form College

 

Team of the Week

This week it has to go to the Men's category 2 football side who came out on top against our local neighbours Stoke 6th Form. What make its even better is that the Category 2 team is the college's men's 3rd football team and they managed to beat Stoke 6th Forms 1st team.

 

Well done to all players and staff

 

Newcastle-under-Lyme College Knights in national cup semi-final this sunday

The NULC Knights will be travelling down to London on Sunday to take on London Lithuania in a Semi Final game on the England Basketball National Shield at the Sydney Russell Leisure Centre.

The team this year have done tremendously well to get this far, their hard work and dedication from the previous years has paid off as they have won the majority of their games this year, resulting to them getting to the semi-final of the national shield.

This week has been full of training and video sessions with Coach Jamison to enhance on their plays on court as a team. The Knights will be going into the game of Sunday with everything they have and they will not be doing it alone. Fans will also be travelling down with the team to give them support throughout the match.

Good luck to all the lads!

Borussia Teeth Win NULC Team Nineteen Cup

            

On the 12th of December NULC Team 19 were involved in a cup week. It was a bitterly cold day and all games were played in high spirits even though the conditions were poor.


Pictured below is the winner of the cup Borrusia Teeth after they celebrated the victory in a penalty shoot-out. Their road to the Final was quite tough as in the group stages they drew their first game 0-0 but then destroyed the next opponent 4-0 which made them go through as the second best placed team.
 

In the Semi final they played winners of the league Murder on Zidane Floor. It was a tense game and with only a couple of minutes left Kevyn Davies (2nd from left) struck to open the deadlock with a lofted ball that eluded the goalkeeper and went into the back of the net. A further goal in the last minute was scored to make the semi-final 2-0.

They were up against Hangover 96 in the final and after a stalemate with little chances it went to penalties. The hero was Borussia Teeth’s Goalkeeper as he saved 2 out of the 3 penalties and made sure that they progressed through to the tournament at St George’s Park in the summer and win the NULC Team 19 cup.
This article was written by Luke Birkinshaw - Chair of NULC's Student Management Team.

TEAM:NULC Sports Results- Wednesday 15th January

It was a mixed day for the Academy teams as a number returned back from their Christmas break.

·       Midland Floodlit Men’s Football- (home) TEAM:NULC 3 - 1 Boldmere St Michaels

 

·       Ladies Football – (home) TEAM:NULC 1 – 4 Dudley College

                                                                                                                      

·       Men’s Basketball- (away) TEAM:NULC 61 – 72 Sandwell Academy

 

·       Ladies Netball- (home) TEAM:NULC 48 – 11 Dyson Perrins College

 

·       Men’s Rugby- (away) TEAM:NULC 38 - 11 Shrewsbury College

Performance of the week has to go to the men's rugby squad who moved another step closer to winning their West Midlands league.

Well done to all the lads and coaches!

Local student signs pro football contract

A student studying sport at Newcastle-under-Lyme College has signed a professional contract with Crewe Alexandra Football Club.

John Johnston, aged 18 from Silverdale signed the contract following a series of trials where he was put through his paces before the Railway Men’s Manager Steve Davis deciding to offer John a one year professional contract.

The former Newcastle Community High School pupil plans to continue his studies at college alongside his professional football career.  John joined NULC in September 2012 where he studied the Level 2 Diploma in Sport before progressing to study the Level 3 Extended Diploma in Sport (Coaching and Fitness) in September 2013.  John is in his first year of the two year course.  He said: “I really enjoy college, I have a good group of friends and the staff have been fantastic in developing me both as player on the pitch as well as with my studies.  I want to continue studying at NULC as it’s important to me to have the professional qualifications needed for a career in coaching later in life.”

Shelley Brown, Head of Faculty for Vocational Studies at NULC, said: “The sports provision available at NULC is outstanding, we have top class facilities, industry level coaching and inspirational teaching, all of these factors work hand in hand to provide students like John with the best opportunities of succeeding in their chosen career path.”

Whilst studying at NULC, John is also an active member of the College’s multi award winning Academy of Sport, where he played for the College’s Football Academy against colleges from across the country in the British Colleges Sport (BCS) league.

Trevor Humphreys, Academy of Sport Manager, said: “We’re all extremely proud of John’s success, he has shown commitment and hard work to training as well as his studies.  The hard work is really paying off as he signs a professional contract for a local club, showing fellow youngsters what is possible if you train and study at NULC.”

The College’s latest Ofsted report was published last week which ranks the College’s sport provision as ‘outstanding’.  The report praises the sport departments ‘innovative teaching methods’ and ‘aspiration teaching’, stating that ‘teaching, learning and assessment are outstanding, which leads to high success rates that are substantially above national averages for the majority of vocational courses.’

To find out more about studying Sport at NULC visit www.nulc.ac.uk or contact the Information Point on 01782 254254 or email info@nulc.ac.uk.

Happy New Year and welcome back

Happy New Year to everyone from the Academy of Sport. We hope everyone is well rested and ready to push onto to what is the business end of the season.

Its was a quiet first Wednesday back with only 1 team playing. The men's basketball squad progressed to the last 64 of the national cup after a convincing win against Telford College of Art and Technology.

Result for Wednesday 8th January 2014

Men's Basketball- TEAM:NULC 98- 28 Telford College of Art and Tech

Next week the majority of teams are in action and we will keep you updated on how they progress.

Roll on 2014