The cameras were rolling at our Eagles Community Arena this week where our constructors Esh Group are working hard to meet the December deadline for our monumental move. Thanks to ITV Tyne Tees for this great report on the progress of our new ‘nest’ build so far and talking to our managing director Paul Blake…
On Saturday night in Manchester the club, our foundation, its trustees and our volunteers had reason to celebrate as Basketball England revealed the winners of their 2018 national Volunteer Awards. The ceremony was the cornerstone of the Basketball England National Game Conference which took place in the day, covering topics from FIBA rule changes to…
Basketball England have announced their annual awards which recognise the volunteers doing great things for our game across the country. There are a number of new award categories for 2018 along with existing ones which all be presented at a new Volunteer Awards dinner as part of the new Basketball England Game Conference in September….
The club remain bang on course to play BBL basketball at the brand new Eagles Community Arena before Christmas. And following the release of this season’s fixtures, owner Paul Blake admitted the finishing line is in sight following a decade of meticulous planning and tough negotiations. The 2018-19 campaign will see the organisation play in…
It has been a few weeks since we brought you an update from our Eagles Community Arena building site, so we are excited to show you how quickly our constructors Esh Group have got our new ‘nest’ flying-up. If you have passed the venue on Scotswood Road you will have seen a huge amount of progress recently…
Our Newcastle Eagles Academy star Tosan Evbuomwan has been selected for the final 12 to play in Division A of the FIBA Under-18 European Championship in Latvia this week. Tosan will make his FIBA competition debut in Group D this Saturday 28 July against Montenegro, followed by games versus Serbia and Lithuania, before Brtain’s round…
It may be the summer break from the BBL season, but as we all know by now basketball never stops and especially for two familiar faces of the Eagles and our community foundation programmes. Eagles BBL team assistant coach Ian Macleod and our academy star Tosan Evbuomwan are currently in the Spanish city of Melilla for…
Congratulations to our NBL Division 1 Team Northumbria men’s head coach Marc Steutel who has just been announced in the same job with the Great Britain Under-20 Men’s squad. Coach Steutel takes the reigns from Bristol Flyers and Basketball England men’s Andreas Kapoulas, who had been at the helm of GB over the past two…
On Saturday 9th June club and foundation staff were joined by some of our sponsors on a trek to the summit of the highest mountain in the British Isles to raise much needed additional funds for our Eagles Community Arena. After an early start around 7:45am ‘Team Eagles’ took on their Ben Nevis Challenge in…
