BBC Sport have shone the spotlight on former Eagles Academy graduate and British Basketball’s brightest star Tosan Evbuomwan. Watch the video below to hear more from Tosan, about his journey from Tyneside to the brink of the NBA. The 2023 NBA Draft, featuring Tosan, will take place at Brooklyn’s Barclays Centre on Thursday 22nd June.
Our Newcastle Eagles Academy will be offering a new experience to players aged 16-19 years old from this September. An academic and sporting partnership between Eagles Community Foundation and NCG has lead to the creation of a new structure which will enable players to access to: Up to 14 hours of training per week Specialist Strength…
The Newcastle Eagles Academy, along with friends, family and supporters joined us at The Vertu Motors Arena recently to celebrate our academy class of ’23 and to acknowledge some standout performances from our athletes. This year’s event was made a little more special given recent news that Eagles Academy graduate Tosan Evbuomwan will enter the…
Eagles Academy graduate Tosan Evbuomwan, who recently declared for the 2023 NBA Draft, has been invited to the illustrious NBA Combine after he impressed at the Elite Camp in Chicago over the weekend. The 6’7″ former Royal Grammar School and Newcastle Eagles basketball prodigy flew to great heights this year under and found himself firming…
The trials dates and summer schedule for our 2023-24 Eagles Academy at the Vertu Motors Arena have now been confirmed. There will be two tiers of trials, invite only and open trials. The invite only trials take place on the 10th and 11th June and are for current Academy and Advanced Development Group players. All this…
We are now accepting expressions of interest for people who want to be involved in the Eagles Academy for the 2023-24 season Please fill out the Eagles Academy Expression of Interest form if you are interested in Head Coach, Assistant Coach or Team Manager positions. The closing date for entry is 5pm on Friday 5 May 2023….
Newcastle Eagles Academy Under 16s player Jakub Bobkowski has been selected by Basketball England for their Under 15s team competing in Spain next week. Bobkowski attend the England Talent Programme camp at the National Basketball Performance Centre in Manchester this week and impressed the home nation’s coaching staff to get a spot on the roster….
Newcastle’s Tosan Evbuomwan could become the first British basketball player since 2010 to be drafted into the NBA. Earlier this month the former Eagles Academy star completed a fairytale run to the Sweet 16 of this season’s NCAA tournament with surprise package Princeton. And with NBA scouts, their affiliate G League colleagues and clubs from…
It was the Cinderella story that captured the imagination of a nation. But the final word has been written on Geordie star Tosan Evbuomwan’s fairytale run to the Sweet Sixteen of US college basketball’s premier competition. A global audience of millions tuned in to discover if ultimate underdog Princeton could add another huge scalp to…
