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2010 News

Kent Kicks Off the UK Season in Style

Kent Target

The UK polocrosse season started at the Kent Target tournament on the 29th and 30th of May and it was the home club who got the best results, though the new club Canterbury Colts and Vale Impi both also managed two wins and a second place. The tournament was hit by bad weather on Saturday Read more…

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Old Footage Reveals Sport’s Sexist Roots

A video of polocrosse filmed in 1947 from Australia seems to suggest that originally polocrosse was played mainly by women and that men would gather on the sidelines to watch them. Well, thank god someone put a stop to that…maybe. To watch the video in question click here. It is brought to us courtesy of Read more…

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Ireland Overcome UK in Under 21s

IPA logo

Ireland’s Under 21s continued their winning form over their UK counterparts, winning the recent test match series in Carrickmines, Ireland on goal difference. Ireland beat the UK on their home soil last September and the UK travelled to Ireland looking for revenge. In the first test match they got it as they won 25-18 with Read more…

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UK Polocrosse Stars Get Engaged

UK Polocrosse stars Greg Sargeant and Sophie Lodder today announced that they are engaged to be married. The couple, who have been dating for several years, were swamped with congratulation messages as the engagement was revealed via Facebook. It is not known when the couple, who both play for Arden Polocrosse Club in Warwickshire, actually Read more…

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Full Australian World Cup Squad Revealed

Just a mere week and a half after we leaked the first few names from the Australian World Cup squad we can finally reveal the full squad (the whole Polocrosse Extreme team might have gone on holiday again…..sorry!). The full squad is a fairly scary prospect as one might expect. It features the Western Australian Read more…

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Australia Notify Their World Cup Squad

Polocrosse Association of Australia

The Australia Polocrosse Association have sent out letters notifying potential World Cup players as to whether they have made the World Cup 2011 squad, from which their final World Cup team will be picked. So far the only names that are known of are from Western Australia (we think that the post must be quickest Read more…

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Now Who Said Polocrosse Wasn’t Glamorous?

Polocrosse has never really had a glamorous image. It is not associated with champagne and canapes in the same way that polo is (except by people who just assume they are the same thing), there is no divot treading between chukkas and Jilly Cooper hasn’t yet written a book called “Polocrosse”. However, new videos from Read more…

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Day 5 from the Australian National Championships

Polocrosse Association of Australia

The fifth day of the Championships threatened to be an anti climax after the excitement of the Masters finals yesterday but it was not to be as the final rounds of group games started and there were some exciting and important contests. First up the Victorian Senior Women took on Queensland. Both sides had no Read more…

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