Newcastle Eagles have swooped add experience to their roster with GB international Kyle Johnson. Tomorrow night will be the 6’5” guard’s first time playing for a British club, but not his first time at the Vertu Motors Arena, where he recently suited-up for the national team in this summer’s clash against Turkey. “The BBL is a…
Great Britain will once again make Newcastle home as they face Serbia in the next stage of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Qualifiers at the Vertu Motors Arena on Friday 11 November. The fixture announcement continues a consistent run of sold-out crowds in the national team’s previous outings in the North East. It will…
Stability is the key for Marc Steutel as Newcastle Eagles’ head coach prepares to consign an unsettling period of flux to the history books. Donovan Johnson represents the penultimate piece in a puzzle that’s proved tough to solve during the first few weeks of an unexpectedly challenging roster-wide reset. And after the US star touched…
Nette Lewis has pledged to add leadership, toughness and positive energy to Newcastle Eagles after bagging 24 points and 13 rebounds on debut. The 23-year-old centre started yesterday’s WBBL clash at Sevenoaks Suns alongside in-form Katie Nolan. But despite the Newcastle duo dominating in the paint, serial contenders Sevenoaks closed out a 15-point victory at…
Another heroic effort from in-form Javion Hamlet was not enough to deny London Lions a fourth league victory on the bounce. Newcastle Eagles’ new fan favourite dropped a game high 29 points before fouling out in the final 10 seconds of a fiery Friday night clash. And Hamlet will be a marked man at Plymouth…
Newcastle Eagles have added a further piece to their 2022-23 jigsaw with the signing of 6’7” forward Donovan Johnson. “I’m excited to get to work with the guys. I had a good talk with coach Steutel and he was optimistic about getting going”, said Johnson. “I played a season at Manchester Giants in 2020-21 so…
Newcastle Eagles go into tonight’s tough home game with BBL Championship favourites London Lions looking for their first win of the 2022-23 season. The Eagles lost both games last weekend although in truth they could have come out with two wins. Last Friday night in a sold-out Vertu Motors Arena they led after three quarters…
Instrumental in our Eagles picking up their first win of the WBBL season, Katie Nolan has been rewarded with her first starting spot in the league’s All-Star Five. Our newly recruited 6’1″ centre flew into Tyneside straight out of Seton Hill where she averaged a double-double. Nolan already picked up the game MVP title as…
It’s two games and two losses for new Head Coach Marc Steutel’s new-look Newcastle Eagles after defeat last night on the road at the Ellesmere Port Sporting Village, Cheshire against the Phoenix. With the all-star heavily stacked London Lions to come to the Vertu Motors Arena this coming Friday, the Eagles are staring down the…
