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England Scholars did the country proud this weekend, with silver medals in both the men's and women's categories at the 2017 EFT Championship Permit.The men's game was end to end stuff, with some great scores from both teams to entertain the crowds, but the boys narrowly missed out on cup final victory, with an 8-7 loss against the experienced and highly capped Nederland Lions ...

The rapid expansion of the Ryvita Touch Nationals over the past two years has encouraged the England Touch Association to launch specific national competitions for Juniors and Masters later this year.Both of these tournaments will be played at Droitwich RFC in the West Midlands on Saturday, October 7th. Each will have four categories – Mixed 15s, Mixed 18s, Boy’s 18s and Girl’s ...

They say you never lose the skill, and this was certainly true in Cheltenham as a team including former professional stars took home the inaugural England Touch Leagues: Cheltenham Cup title.Nick Wood, Nicky Robinson and Olly Morgan – who all have plenty of Premiership and international appearances under their belt – were part of the A Touch Passed It team that won the main pri ...

England W27s player Louise Rickard has received the accolade of being made a Fellow of Aberystwyth University.Louise was both an undergraduate student at the university and completed her PhD there, too, and during her time at Aberystwyth she took up rugby union, playing for Wales a record 112 times and appearing in four Rugby World Cups.Short-listed for the Wales Sports Persona ...

More teams will be representing England this weekend, this time in the European Federation of Touch Championship Permit tournament.Men's and Women's England Scholars squads have headed to Fonteney-Le-Comte near La Rochelle for a long weekend of action against teams from across Europe, including France, Spain, Germany, Guernsey, the Netherlands and Switzerland.As with the recent ...

The clock has ticked into the final 365 days before the European Touch Championships come to England.The continent’s premier international tournament will be taking over the pitches at the University of Nottingham between July 18th and 21st, 2018 as the best Touch players from across Europe battle it out for the right to lift the silverware.In 2016 there were 14 countries takin ...

Hit n Run continued in Northampton where they left off in Manchester by taking home the Cup title in the third round of the 2017 STEEDEN DTS.Hit n Run’s squad has a heavy Pacific Island influence and they showed plenty of tricks and skill en route to a perfect afternoon of results.Regular showers swept across Northampton – no surprise, given that there seems to be rain every ti ...

There was twice the celebration for England Crusaders at the inaugural EFT Premiership Permit competition.Both the Men’s and Women’s Open teams took home the Cup finals after four days of intense action, but there were different ways to the titles for the respective sides.The Women had an outstanding weekend, and aside from a draw with Scotland Kelpies at the end of day one had ...

The inaugural European Federation of Touch Premiership Permit is nearly upon us!Teams from across Europe are heading to Scotland’s capital city for four days of stiff competition to decide who will have bragging rights in 2017.The Men’s Open competition features three teams from England (Knights, Royals, Crusaders), two from Scotland (Kelpies, Stags) and one from each of Irelan ...

Touch Football Australia hall of famer Peter Bell says that getting Touch played in schools is important in growing the sport in the future.Since 2010 Touch in Australia has seen an explosion in participation numbers, with nearly 700,000 people playing the sport in 2016. This growth has been underpinned both by Touch Football Australia’s partnership with the National Rugby Leag ...