NULC Netball Academy Enjoys Success

The College's Netball Academy is so far enjoying a very successful season. They remain unbeaten in the West Midlands Performance League and currently sit top of the table. The cup has also been a success as the team has now reached the quarter-finals of the British Colleges Sport National Cup.


For any information on joining the Netball Academy, please contact Trevor Humphreys on 01782 254269.

Newcastle College in Partnership with Newcastle Town Football Club

The College has strengthened its already close tie in with Newcastle Town Football Club by jointly applying to join the Football Conference Youth Alliance League for the 2011/2012 season. The team will play under the Newcastle Town banner but will actually be the College First team made up of Newcastle College students. The team will play all its home matches at the Lyme Valley Stadium on a Wednesday afternoon and will be competing against sides such as Birmingham City, FC Manchester and Halifax Town.

The decision to enter a team in this highly competitive league reflects the increase in both the standard and the number of footballers who are involved with the Colleges Football Development Centre since relocation in January 2010 and will further encourage the Colleges attempts to attract the best young sports people in the area to study at NULC.     

NULC Basketball Academy welcomes new head coach

Shawn Jamison has been named as the Head Coach of the NULC Basketball Academy, which forms part of the NULC Academy of Sport programme.

He has over 20 years experience in the game of basketball both as a coach and as a player. His career highlights consist of NBA experience with the Los Angeles Clippers. Shawn was also part of the Harlem Globtrotters who were the first team to actually showcase his skills in the UK when he played dates at the London Arena, Wembley Arena and the MEN in Manchester where he was MVP of the tour. He then began a 7 year career in the British Basketball League and spent 5 of those 7 years with the Milton Keynes Lions, where he won a cup title for the Lions.

Shawn will be taking all training sessions and providing advice on all aspects of the game to NULC Basketball Academy students. If you are interested in playing for the NULC Basketball Academy you must be the following:

• Studying on a full or part-time programme at the College;
• Aged between 16-19;
• Have a good level of playing ability i.e. club/high level at school.

For more information speak to NULC Academy of Sport Manager Trevor Humphreys on 01782 254269 or email trevor.humphreys@nulc.ac.uk

MMU Football Academy success!

Congratulations to the MMU/NULC Football Academy who beat City of Stoke on Trent Sixth Form College 1-0 to progress to the last 16 of the British Colleges Sport Elite National Cup.

Table Tennis success!

The NULC Academy of Sport Table Tennis team finished in joint 3^rd at the County Cup Tournament narrowly missing out on progressing to the 4 Counties Tournament later in the year. 

The boys played 24 games winning a total of 14 between them.

The team consisted of Michael Mccafrey, Joe Smith, Mark Bourne and Carl Bachelor. 

Find out more about our Academy of Sport programme at www.nulc.ac.uk/sport .

Sport staff became 'Mo Bro's' for charity

Four members of male staff from NULC took part in Movember, a national campaign to raise money for The Prostate Cancer Charity. 

The staff included Ross Cope, Steve Sumnal and Steve Teasdale from the Sport department and David Matthews, a member of the Senior Management Team at NULC.

Movember is an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, aimed at highlighting male health issues, specifically prostate cancer.

The ‘Mo Bros’ started their moustache growing challenge on 1 November clean shaven and then had the remainder of the month to grow and groom their moustache.

A shave-a-thon took place on 1 December at Transform Salon and Spa at the College where Level 2 Beauty students helped to remove the month-long moustache growth!

Over £1000 was raised by the staff for The Prostate Cancer Charity.

Children in Need 2010

Staff and students at NULC dressed up in outrageous costumes and took part in a range of activities to raise money for Children in Need.

Fun activities included ‘Pudsey’s Fundraising Grotto’, whilst some students raised cash to have their legs waxed – Ouch!

The College has so far raised over £900 and all proceeds will go to Children in Need.