National Roller Hockey Association

Photo by Jan Cook
This years England under 19 ladies team has now been selected. They will travel to Cestas, France to compete in the 2nd Under 19 Ladies European Championships from 30th October to 1st November. Four teams (Germany, France, Spain and England) will go head to head in this round robin championships starting on […]

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The following note was sent to all club secretaries on 8th of October 2008. To date 1 response has been received:
Subject: referee contacts - Referee Association
As we begin to pull information together for the soon to be formed NRHA Referee Association, there will at some point in the future be a meeting called for referees […]

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Carlos Amaral final comments:
I am very pleased that we achieved the objective of finishing top 8 in the world. The girls had a great attitude on and off the rink which showed an improvement of their sports mentality. Our team had an average of 17 years old and compared to other teams we were the […]

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European Schoolboys Bassano del Grappa
An event that began for most on the Sunday with travel to Stansted airport and a flight to Venice Treviso. 10 players: 2 management: 1 referee and a few parents – others would arrive the following day.
Photo by Miguel Peixoto

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This coming Saturday is Euro weekend in the world of Roller Hockey and three English teams will be part of it. Middlesbrough RHC and Bury RHC both have entered the CERS Cup playing Walsum (Germany) and Roller Biasca (Switzerland) respectively. The boys from Suffolk and Cleveland both have their first matches away on 18th October […]

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Photo courtesy of Lucy Rivers
England 0 Spain 12
Half Time 0-8
Our first objective was achieved by playing in the quarter final against this year’s second seed. We played a diamond formation all game relying on the counter attack, however, in the first half Spain applied the pressure causing problems to our defence and attack strategy. The […]

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England Ladies made history by qualifying for top 8 position in World Championships.
England 5 South Africa 1
Half Time 2-1
England started the game with a diamond formation controlling possession in the first ten minutes of the game. Although we scored a goal in the first ten minutes, Carlos called a time-out and changed the system to […]

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The Executive members of the National Roller Hockey Association are pleased to announce that a sponsorship deal has been secured for the National Premier league referees.
The referees will be seen this season in new white shirts carrying the logo of roller hockey equipment supplier SLAPSHOT
Mike Richardson, who brokered the details of the deal with the […]

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England 0 Chile 9
Half time 0-4
Due to the Juniors European Championship finishing on Saturday 4th October Carlos Amaral and the President were not able to attend our first game against the world champions Chile.
The team started this game in a diamond defence, our ladies have adopted this system to break their opponents counter attacks. In […]

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The England Ladies team traveled out to Japan last week in preparation for 9th Ladies World Championships. Congratulations to all the girls who made it into the final selection after months of training at national training weekends at Bushfields Sports Centre, Peterborough.
1 Emma Russell – Plymouth RHC
2 […]

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