A brand-new initiative bringing together North East businesses to support the Newcastle Eagles Women has been launched. ‘The W Club’ unites local business leaders who are pledging both financial and strategic backing to the team for the 2025/26 season and beyond. The founding group is working closely with the Eagles to create a supporter ‘Club’…
Newcastle Eagles women’s player-coach Chloe Gaynor has secured her first ever signing in the role by returning guard Sarah Birkett to the Eagles for a third consecutive season. Gaynor took the reins part way through last season and is now building her own Super League Basketball (SLB) roster for the first time. “I’m so pleased…
Newcastle Eagles partner Lumo is celebrating the renewal of its support for the club into a third year by organising a special treat for visitors to Newcastle Pride this weekend. Lumo’s logo will once again be proudly displayed on the back of the Eagles women’s jerseys and shooting shirts in the upcoming Super League Basketball (SLB)…
Wrapping-up one of the club’s most successful campaigns in recent years, Monday 19th May’s 2024/25 End of Season Supporters Night set another record for being the Eagles’ biggest event of its kind for back-to-back years. Once again the Vertu Motors Arena played host to this special annual awards presentations and party, where fans had their…
It was five and out for Head Coach Chloe Gaynor and her players down at Sheffield yesterday afternoon. The fifth time Newcastle Eagles had faced the Sheffield Hatters this season and unfortunately the fifth loss to an excellent Sheffield side. It meant a season ending loss for the Eagles in difficult and disappointing circumstances as…
The Newcastle Eagles survived an extremely tough encounter with a talented Essex Rebels side to eventually force their way into the Play-Off Semi stage after a great game of basketball. It sets up a game in Sheffield next Sunday against The Hatters for the right to go to the O2 on Sunday May 18th. A…
The Newcastle Eagles fly into tonight’s home Super League Basketball play-off quarter-final in confident mood and with massive momentum after last weekend’s wonderful double-winning weekend. A weekend that saw them secure a highest ever League placing of third. To win back-to-back games within 15 hours of each other is one thing to do it without…
Ambitious students are aiming high thanks to an aspirational scheme matching sport with education. During the last three seasons, the Newcastle Eagles women’s team have been inspiring the next generation by using basketball to boost learning. The club’s Science of Basketball programme focuses on science, technology, engineering and maths — covering topics like percentages, ratios,…
They say that it’s not how you start it’s how you finish. At Maiden Castle, Durham that proved to be true for Newcastle Eagles although to be fair they did start well before powering through the final quarter to complete a league double over their derby rivals. In doing so the Eagles ended the regular…
