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The unique demands made on Touch referees have been put at the heart of significant cutting-edge research undertaken at Edinburgh Napier University. Led by Dr Duncan Mascarenhas, Associate Professor of Sport Psychology and Coaching, the research team sought to investigate how sports officials integrate perception and cognition to manage in-game decisions. Dr Mascarenhas, who is ...

Surrey Stags showed just how far they have developed over the last 24 months by taking home the first Cup title of the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) University Touch Championships national rounds in Nottingham. Coming out of the pandemic, Surrey’s Touch club was – it is fair to say – facing its challenges. But thanks to the hard work of the committee, led by pa ...

The first national round of the 2022/23 British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) University Touch Championships will be giving England Touch the Association’s biggest ever single-day domestic tournament. Thirty-two teams have signed up to the event, which will be taking over the University of Nottingham’s Riverside Sports Complex this coming Saturday, with spaces being fu ...

The 2023 England Touch Association Annual General Meeting will be held between 9:30am and 11:00am on Sunday, February 26th, 2023. As with previous AGMs this meeting will be held by Zoom, and will have a formal agenda as well as the opportunity for informal discussions with the ETA's Board and senior management. All members of England Touch are invited to attend and participate ...

Since the England Touch Association (ETA) announced that we would be delivering a schools event for the Independent Schools Association (ISA) on Friday May 12th at Maidenhead Rugby Club, we have since received a number of enquiries from other schools asking if they could join the event. We have agreed with ISA to extend the invite to ALL schools, ie independent and state schoo ...

The England Touch Association (ETA) and In2Touch have agreed a new strategic partnership for at least the next three years to help grow Touch Rugby across the country and to work together to develop all aspects of the sport. The ETA and In2Touch have worked together for many years, but this new partnership marks the start of a new era for both organisations and for Touch Rugby ...

The England Touch Association (ETA) and Boing have announced an exciting new partnership which will introduce primary school age children across the country to the core skills which underpin Touch Rugby. 2022 saw the ETA launch Super6, a version of Touch Rugby specifically designed for schools to introduce the sport to new young players, which was successfully rolled out by coa ...

The survey, titled Touch Rugby Environment in the UK, is designed to help better understand those that play the game and ultimately make it even more inclusive for everyone. Together with Pride In Touch, we’re calling on all Touch players in the UK to complete the survey. It takes 15 minutes and can be accessed by CLICKING HERE. By taking the survey, players are helping to cre ...

England Touch has teamed up with the Independent Schools Association to offer its 608 member schools the opportunity to take part in a Touch festival at Maidenhead RFC in May. The festival, which will run between 10:30am and 3:00pm on Friday, May 12th, 2023, will be for Mixed teams (3 boys and 3 girls on the field at any one time) in the Under-11, Under-13 and Under-15 age cate ...

England Touch is consolidating the Mixed National Touch Series for 2023, bringing the previous Elite and Development competitions together into one coherent structure in which teams can progress through the national ranks. The move formalises the way that the Elite and Development competitions were organised in 2022 into four divisions, with space available for up to 16 teams i ...