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This year is rapidly drawing to a close, so before we jump headlong into 2024, here’s a recap of the past twelve months of the GB Maxibasketball national programme! It’s been an exciting and eventful 2023, not least because we offered opportunities for players to compete in Europe at the Santander Masters Basket Tournament and […]

With Christmas fast-approaching, Midland-based Sportswear manufacturer Sporting Touch has added some GB Maxis’ winter warmers to its website. From head to toe, you can bag yourself a warm woolly hat, high quality hoodies and sweat pants and even some socks!.  Undoubtedly the star addition is the popular navy gilet and new to the range is

The GB Maxibasketball Men 55+ squad travelled to Spain last weekend to take part in the 7th Murcia International Masters Tournament, 1-3 December 2023 and won GOLD! Also known as MAMBASKET 7, the 12-man British squad took on teams from Alicante, Germany and Granada to win the tournament with an unbeaten record.  Captained by Phil Pearce (Aylesbury)

This week, GB Maxibasketball confirmed staff appointments for no less than ten male and female teams, who will be competing in the European Maxibasketball Championship 2024 in Pesaro, Italy.  The appointments include coaching, management and sports science, exercise and movement (SSEM) roles, providing a full suite of leadership and support as the teams continue begin

What a night it was last night in London, as Basketball England (BE) won the 2023 Bishop Lloyd Jackson ‘Sport Organisation of the Year Award’. The news was announced on the 21 October at the Sporting Equals Awards evening, hosted at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London attended by Basketball England national and regional personnel, including

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