This year’s winner of the Sunday Times and Sky Sports Sportswomen of the Year Award for Team of the Year (which was decided by public vote) is the World Cup winning English Women’s Rugby team. After disappointing final losses to New Zealand in 2006 and 2010, Katy McLean’s team beat Canada by 21-9 to win the 2014
Howzat?! England women’s cricketers put umpiring skills to the test to help increase awareness: The ECB Association of Cricket Officials (ACO) is set to launch a new female officiating project to encourage more women and girls to become active umpires and scorers in the game. The ECB ACO currently stands as the largest group of
Both England’s Men and Women are in Champions Trophy action in the coming weeks and there’s great news for hockey fans as Sky Sports have announced they will be showing the games live. The women’s tournament from Mendoza, Argentina, starts on November 29 and runs until December 7. England’s women have been drawn against three
England Hockey has with great sadness reported the death of Barbara West, who died recently aged 100. Born on the 9th November 1913, she died five days short of 101st birthday. Known to all as ‘Bar’, she was an outstanding servant of women’s hockey for over 50 years, lecturing and coaching at Chelsea PE College,
Fancy being at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in London next summer to see the best teams in Europe battle it out to be crowned EuroHockey 2015 Champions? All you have to do to win two adult tickets to the pool stage of the competition is follow @EuroHockey2015 on Twitter and England Hockey will draw a winner at
The RFU 2014 Annual Report & Accounts published on November 14th shows investment in rugby at all levels growing for the fourth consecutive year. The total investment into rugby was £75.3m, up 13% on 2012/13 with a substantial proportion of this growth focused on the RFU’s commitment to building a lasting Rugby World Cup legacy across the
The annual ICC Awards is an opportunity to celebrate the games heroes. The awards have honoured some of the biggest names in men’s and women’s international cricket. This year the ICC LG People’s Choice Award was won by Bhuvneshwar Kumar. He becomes the fourth cricketer to win this award after Sachin Tendulkar (first ever recipient)
Reading’s Fran Kirby scooped the FA WSL 2 Players’ award, after enjoying a breakthrough season where she was top goalscorer with 29 goals, and earned regular call-ups to Mark Sampson’s England squad including a call up to the squad for the historic match against Germany on 23 November. The awards, which are an annual event
The Rugby Football Union is delighted to announce Helen Weir CBE will be joining its Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Helen is an exceptional businesswoman who combines a high calibre career spanning multiple sectors with a passion for rugby. Currently the Group Finance Director at John Lewis Partnership, Helen was previously Group Executive Director
England cricketers Gary Ballance, Katherine Brunt (both Yorkshire) and Sarah Taylor (Sussex), along with Umpire Richard Kettleborough, have been congratulated by ECB Chairman, Giles Clarke, after the quartet were announced as winners of major individual honours in the annual LG ICC Awards. The 2014 LG ICC Spirit of Cricket Award has been won by Katherine
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