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OH YES! Popular basketball coach Ruth Eytle has been nominated for a Sporting Equals Award – and public voting is now open. The Londoner has coached England junior teams and in Basketball England’s Aspire programme and runs Activities 4 U, the popular HoopsB4Work – a weekly adults recreational basketball programme in Central and South London […]

We continue the journey on our road to the European Maxibasketball Championship 2024, in Pesaro, Italy!  We have the first of our open training days at the end of this month, for which registration has now closed. The great news is that players that are still interested in participating in the Euros next year can

Saturday 2nd September was the final day of competition for Great Britain at the World Maxibasketball Championship FIMBA – Mar Del Plata 2023, and we finished on a high note with the GB Women’s 40+ team defeating Argentina convincingly 89-27 to finish just outside the top eight nations, placing 9th overall.  VILMA JURGAITYTE led the

Earlier today, the University of Greenwich announced a new three-year partnership with GB Maxibasketball, that will see the provision of opportunities for staff and students across the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences to work with elite masters athletes, and also enable much needed research into mature athlete motivations, performance, health and well-being and the

With little over five weeks to go before our five national teams head to the XVI World Maxibasketball Championships 2023 in Argentina, we are already looking ahead to the XII FIMBA European Championship next year in Italy and with our eyes set firmly on places on the medal podium for Great Britain. We warmly invite

We are delighted to announce the players who have been given the honour of leading their respective teams at the forthcoming World Maxibasketball Championship FIMBA – Mar Del Plata 2023 in Argentina. Players were selected by the coaches and confirmed at the penultimate training camps before our five GB teams head off to Argentina. Leading

Last week Brighton’s ITV Meridian News reporter, Charlotte Wilkins, caught up with some of the Sussex-based members of the Great Britain Over 40 and Over 50 Women’s team members, who are just now only 7 weeks away from flying out to Argentina for the World Maxibasketball Championship from 26 August to 3 July 2023. In

GB Basketball Board Member and GB Maxibasketball programme lead, Sadie Mason MBE, was among the British basketball family who gave the GB Senior Women a great send-off from their camp in Manchester ahead of the teams’ departure to next weeks’ FIBA Women’s Euro Basket in Slovenia. They will travel via France where they will stop

GB Women’s 50+ team have won the Santander Masters Basket Tournament in their competition category, racking up 4 wins from 4 games over the course of the 3-day international event in the gorgeous northern Cantabrian city of Santander. In a hard fought Gold medal game coached by the well-matched duo of David Mason (Sussex) and

Huge congratulations to GB Maxibasketball Coach Liam Jefferson who has been named GB Basketball Men’s Under 20 Assistant Coach! Liam will assist Head Coach Krumesh Patel alongside Bristol Flyers Chris Bourne and Team Manager Ruchae Walton in this year’s FIBA U20 European Championships from 7-16 July in Skopje, North Macedonia!  Last year Liam headed up