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The England Touch Association are pleased to announce the appointment of 19 new Development Officers that will work within their local areas to develop our sport.Congratulations to the following:Anthea JoyceSouth West (Bristol/Bath/Chippenham)Ben MeakinMidlands (North), Midlands (South), Midlands(West- Birmingham/Coventry/Leicester)Chris GarlandSouth England (Surrey/Kent/Sussex ...

On behalf of the ETA, I would like to thank all those who came along to this years meeting, it was great to have so many people there and I hope it gave you an insight as to what goes on in the association and how we are growing year upon year.At 10.00am on Saturday 6th December, we held the 2014 England Touch AGM, were all members (that contribute financially to the ETA, i.e. ...

When: Saturday 21st March 2015Where: Chippenham RFC, Allington Fields, Frogwell, Chippenham, Wilts, SN14 0YZTime: 9:30 StartFormat: Women’sCost: £125Entry: Email jen.palmer@bristol.ac.uk  This event is particularly suited to those new to Women's touch. Players of all level encouraged. Following the success of the inaugural Spring Chick in 2014 - with 13 teams entering, it ...

The ETA medical team members joined forces with our sponsors SPORTTAPE to support the elite athletes, teams and fun runners in the inaugural Urban Attack  held at the national cycling centre in Manchester, hosted in the impressive indoor BMX track. The indoor obstacle race was the first of its kind, combining both the physicality of OCR with the atmosphere of a fun run.The SPOR ...

England Men’s Open player James Heptonstall has upped his game again, this time by racing a boat!James, of viral video #RaceTheTube fame, has created another video from his 'Epic Challenges' YouTube channel and took on the Thames Clipper from the London Eye to Bankside Pier in his #RaceTheBoat challenge..James and co-founder Noel Carrol had just 8.30 minutes to beat the boat, c ...

The England Women 27s team hosted a fundraising evening on Saturday 6 December to raise money to support their trip to Australia for the Touch World Cup in 2015.GJ’s pub in Wandsworth, London opened their doors to the festive beach themed night which saw outfits from a bikini wearing reindeer and Santas with kiwi accents to impressive combos of boardies and Christmas jumpers.Fu ...

The England Touch Association Medical Team are looking to expand.  This expansion is to occur in order that we provide the medical cover for the National Touch Series events.  This will ensure consistently high standards of medical cover throughout the season in all competitive Touch competitions. . The Medical Team are in the process of recruiting Chartered HCPC Registered Phy ...

Plans are now fully underway for the 2015 season which we hope will see more clubs, more teams, more new players and a large increase in referees across the summer.NTS 2015NTS Clubs have undergone a nomination process for the hosting of tournaments in 2015. Below is the season overviewRound 1 - Nottingham - May 30Round 2 - Maidenhead, Thames Valley - June 13Round 3 - Manchester ...

Last weekend the Women’s 27's and Men’s 30's had the privilege of experiencing life as an army recruit at the Winchester Army Recruit Training Centre. We fell in, got our briefing and dressed off towards the high ropes course to start. The aim was to get four members to balance upright on a 20m high pole whilst being held on ropes by bilayers below. It sounds easy but 20m is a ...

After a hugely successful and competitive #TouchNationals and Open Trials, the England Touch High Performance Team along with the elite coaches announced players who were part of the initial training squads for the upcoming 2015 Touch World Cup in Australia.Since then, the squads have had numerous training sessions and have been put through their paces at the All England Camp a ...