As the newest country to the World Cup (2011 will be their first ever appearance), Zambia are a bit of an unknown quantity and there are probably several coaches who would love to know a bit more about their players and how they will perform on the world stage. The names of the World Cup Read more…
The UK have called up Annemeike Mitchell to the 16 strong squad from which their final world cup team will be selected. Annemieke (known to her friends and fans as Annie) comes into the squad to replace Kerry Bean, who has withdrawn herself from the squad. Annie is, at 20 years old, one of the Read more…
by Richard “Chappers” Chapple, our man in Africa Zambia have announced their final 8 person team for next year’s world cup, being held at Bishop Burton College in the UK. Zambia named the squad after a weekend of top quality action at the Zambia high goal invitational tournament. The final 8 players who will represent Read more…
South Africa have named the 12 players who form their World Cup squad and from which they will select their final 8 players. The squad is very similar to the men’s and ladies teams which toured the UK in 2009, which will probably come as something of a relief to most, as rumour had suggested Read more…
Both New Zealand and the USA have named their squads for the 2011 Polocrosse World Cup, due to be held in July in the United Kingdom. That means of the 8 countries competing so far 3 of the countries have declared their squads, from which their final teams of 8 players will be picked. Australia Read more…
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…
A committee had been formed with the responsibility of finding enough good polocrosse horses for the World Cup 2011, which is taking place in the UK. They are Jason Webb, Guy Robertson, Wayne Henning, Rick Murray and Penny Webb as Secretary. Whilst they put budgets together and put proposals to the Directors, they want to Read more…
The UKPA announced that the World Cup committee has decided that the 2011 Polocrosse World Cup will be held at Bishop Burton College near Beverly. The World Cup Commitee contacted over a hundred sites and visted approxmiately twenty before making their decision. Bishop Burton won due to the excellent transport links and due to outstanding Read more…
Firstly, apologies for the delay! I stayed over in Australia visiting some friends and so only returned to the UK on Monday, however here is the World Cup Report! Friday 20th of April And so it begins! The first thing I do is study the world map in order to discover exactly where Singapore is Read more…
As one commentator put it, “It’s the worst thing to happen to UK polocrosse since Dan Duhig injured his thumb” and they could well be right. News has reached us that Sophie Lodder has broken her wrist in the run up to the World Cup. The injury happened while the team were based in New Read more…