Newcastle Eagles Women’s Team will have their head coach at the helm and shooting hoops this season as Chloe Gaynor prepares to fully embrace her player-coach role. Despite her relatively young age to be holding the reins of such a professional setup, Gaynor continues to show her obvious basketball nous and behind the scenes this…
Newcastle Eagles Men’s Head Coach Marc Steutel has been a busy man this summer. Not just recruiting his new 2025/26 roster but also managing to find time to get married and lead Great Britain in the EuroBasket finals. All meaning that he’s only just landed back on Tyneside. And there was no rest for the…
Head coach Chloe Gaynor is delighted to add emerging forward Grace Rae, last season’s Newcastle Eagles Academy MVP, to the Women’s 2025/26 Super League Basketball (SLB) roster. Promotion of the Eagles pathway star is something that will be celebrated across the entire organisation as Gaynor is able to confirm Rae to the senior level. “I’ve…
Perhaps no surprise to anyone as head coach Marc Steutel completes his 2025/26 roster with the return of Eagles legend Darius Defoe. The man known as ‘Mr. 28′ will begin an astonishing 22nd season on Tyneside and in top-flight British basketball. Defoe has been a member of every single one of the Eagles’ 28 national…
Newcastle Eagles are thrilled to announce the return of 5’11” power forward Jada Dapaa for the 2025/26 season. Dapaa who had a short but successful stint with Newcastle in the 2023/24 is back in Toon with unfinished business in the black and white. Quickly becoming a fan-favourite in her time with the club, Dappa played…
Newcastle Eagles are delighted to have brought Maria Mongomo to club in player-coach Chloe Gaynor latest addition to the women’s 2025/26 team. The 5’9″ Spanish guard has vast experience in the professional game as well as being a former Spanish junior international from age 16 to 20. Mongomo played at Fribourg in Switzerland last year averaging…
In what is largely a new-look roster for Newcastle Eagles, head coach Chloe Gaynor is delighted to return a familiar face to the Tyneside club as Zoe Willis flies back in for her fourth season in black and white. Willis has become an integral part of the Eagles franchise both as a player on court…
It’s a fourth season in a row for popular 5’7” guard Alex Campbell as head coach Chloe Gaynor returns her to the roster. The recently turned 21-year-old will once again provide support from the bench and in practice. “Alex has been around the programme for a few years now and heading into her fourth year…
Canadian Sarah Wells is the latest recruit to Newcastle Eagles 2025/26 Women’s Super League Basketball roster. The ex-Durham Palatinate will join her former teammate Shanique Lucas on Tyneside in a busy summer of recruitment for head coach Chloe Gaynor. The former NCAA Division 1 University of Vermont graduate returned figures of 7.1 points and 4.6…
