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The University National Touch Series heads to its second new venue this Saturday, with the northern universities going head-to-head at West Park Leeds RFC. It is the latest home of professional or semi-professional rugby to host an England Touch event, with The Sycamores having been the home of Leeds Tykes (formerly Yorkshire Carnegie) in the RFU Championship and National Leagu ...

As part of their Great Coaching Comeback campaign, UK Coaching in partnership with CIMSPA and EMDUK, has launched a new initiative ReTrain to ReTain, funded by Sport England. The fully-funded scheme aims to provide skills, training, and targeted support for 25,000 volunteer coaches, as well as 25,000 sport and activity professionals, who have been negatively impacted by the COV ...

Creating an effective and clear pathway for Touch players looking to develop their game and reach the next stage of representation can be a big ask in some areas, especially while the game is still growing. In the West Wildcats region, a Revolution has steadily been growing, providing individuals with exactly the opportunities needed to grow their skills and test themselves aga ...

Exeter’s first team had a perfect day in Oxford to open up their University National Touch Series campaign. The south-west outfit won all their games on the way to lifting the Cup title, recording two double-digit scorelines along the way. But there were a couple of scares, too, not least the quarter final against Bristol in which Exeter trailed 2-3 at half-time and only went o ...

The University National Touch Series moves to Oxford this Saturday for Round 1 South. Exeter and Bath continued in their tradition of leading the way in the recent Men’s and Women’s social event, and both universities have entered multiple teams into the opening round of the Mixed Series. Exeter and Bath have split the last few University NTS titles between them, and several al ...

Loughborough had a perfect start to their University National Touch Series North campaign with an unbeaten Round 1 in Manchester. Loughborough’s first team began and ended the day in the same fashion, beating Leeds University’s first team in comprehensive fashion, lifting the Cup title in the process. The Uni NTS’s new format of having northern and southern tournaments allowed ...

The England Women’s 27 squad began their winter training programme not with ball skills or game play, but with a half-hour session which could save a person’s life. Women’s 27 head coach Gary Lambert – himself a vascular consultant surgeon – organised the CPR session in the wake of England Touch’s charity partnership with the British Heart Foundation and being mindful of high p ...

England Touch Association Chair Mark Croston says that he is honoured to have been elected onto the new Board of the Federation of International Touch. Croston was one of five new Directors voted onto the sport’s international governing body at a Special General Meeting held on Saturday, November 6th, along with Michael Abramowitz (Switzerland), Topy Xu (China) and Australian d ...

Saturday sees the University National Touch Series enter a new era with the first regional tournament at this level. University Touch has expanded rapidly over the last few years, and pre-pandemic tournaments were regularly attracting around 30 teams. To give more teams from more universities the opportunity to experience the NTS England Touch introduced North and South tournam ...

The countdown to the 2022 European Touch Championships continues with the announcement of the winter High Performance Training Squads! In all 289 players have been chosen across the 10 age categories, with 39 individual clubs represented from as far afield as Exeter, Canterbury, Newcastle and Manchester. The first training sessions will be this coming weekend (November 6-7) wit ...