Friesland, Holland (15th & 16th January ’11) 10 English development squad players took part in a triangular tournament and training weekend with their Belgian and Dutch counterparts, with Peter White and Kerry White emerging victorious in the men’s and women’s competitions to highlight the strength in depth of the national team. There was good news elsewhere, with Jeremy Hindle and Jon Fagan […]
In case you missed it, UK Wallball was on BBC Breakfast with Mike Bushell on Saturday 15th January, at St. Paul’s Academy in Greenwich. Check out the video here. If you’d like to find out more about setting handball up in your school, please do browse around our website, or for any queries, or to […]
The England Team will be officially opening the UK Handball Centre of Excellence at Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood, on Monday 7th February. The school has joined forces with England Handball to build four international standard courts, which will be christened with an exhibition match by the current European Champs.
You can read the 2011 Chairman’s (James Toop) report below, and you can download the full newsletter here: [button color=”blue” size=”medium” link=”https://ukwb.burrowsca.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2014/02/Fives_Newsletter_2011.pdf” target=”blank” ]2011 Jan Newsletter[/button] [divider] England Handball Report 2010 has been another busy year for England Handball, and I can report that we have had some big breakthroughs both at home and abroad: […]
After England Handball’s groundbreaking year in 2009,writes captain Adrian Lee, I did wonder whether 2010 would prove to be a much tougher journey on the way to challenging for honours in the top international competitions. This year’s progress has taught me I must not doubt myself or my stellar group of England Handball charges in […]
England’s handball players claimed the biggest prize of their lives last night, when they won the European 1-Wall Championship in the 2010 Europilota Championships, which took place in Valencia, Spain 11-13th September. After emphatic wins against Belgium and Italy in the group stages, they then secured an equally emphatic win against the Netherlands in the […]
This year’s UK Open doubles saw players from Ireland and Belgium travel to the Westway for one of Europe’s premier 1-wall handball events. The men’s open grade was fiercely contested through the group stages – Belgium’s Bastien van Nuffelen & Phillipe de Mil qualified through to the semis along with England’s Peter Cohen & Gareth […]
The Irish Nationals are always a huge highlight on the handball calendar, writes Peter Cohen, and this year was no exception, with over 400 athletes competing over the course of the weekend. 18 English Handballers, all with a background in either Eton or Rugby Fives, made the trip over the Irish Sea and reached no […]
On Tuesday the 17th August, we made history. Two members of the CASE Team – myself and Oliver Burdall, played the highest game of handball in the world. Handball is a sport played by hitting a ball against a wall with your hands. I currently play handball for England and take the sport very seriously […]
With players from as far afield as Wales, Ireland and Belgium joining the English handballers, there was a real international flavour to the 31 players in this year’s UK Open Handball Championships. In the end, though, it was home-grown players who picked up the day’s top trophies. There were separate competitions for men and women, […]