As part of its ongoing development initiatives, the Academy will look to host an open age women’s only weekend at its Collingwood venue in late September. In hosting the weekend the primary objective is to initially gauge the interest in women wishing to aspire to and develop towards future participation in national leagues polo, […]
Happy New Polo Year! 2018 is set to be a big year for Polo with the European Club Championships taking place in Nottingham and the World Championships in Canada. The ACM minutes are now online, take a read to recap on 2017 and learn about our future plans. Performance Update Chairperson Report Treasurer Report
This year’s ACM will be held on the 9th December at Warwick University, a short drive (or the 12X bus) from Coventry. The ACM is our opportunity as a committee to review the last year and discuss plans for the future with players and supporters of all levels. Our sport is run by the work […]
Dependant on the interest we shall hold an introductory weekend for those wishing to participate with the Great Britain Canoe Polo Academy on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th October at the Collingwood Liverpool Canoe Polo facility. The weekend will consist of a number of assessments of the individual’s personal core skills, fitness and game play. […]
Anyone interested in becoming a provider of the new polo coaching award please apply by this Monday!! British Canoeing launched the Coach Award on the 3rd July, which aims to create discipline specific pathways across all disciplines. https://www.britishcanoeing.org.uk/…/british-canoeing-laun…/ The closing date for Provider applications is this Monday (21st August) at noon. If you know of anyone […]
The committee has been working hard to prepare the details for the updated 2017/18 season. The greatest challenge was to manipulate the advanced pool bookings to the new formats. First and foremost we want to take this opportunity to thank Sally and Rob for their hard work across all their seasons and especially for taking […]
This competition marks the return of the National Championship event to the British Canoe Polo Calendar! Now that we have a central permanent location we hope to grow this event into one of the highlights of the year.The 2017 competition will have 3 leagues: Open: £50Ladies: £50Youth: FREE!The Open league will run on a Double Elimination […]
Congratulation to Viking on being crowned Open Div1 champions and Friends of Allonby Y Ladies team on being crowned Ladies Div1 Champions. Viking had a number of changed paddlers in their team from last year and still managed to be 8 points clear of Friends of Allonby. In the ladies competition Friends of Allonby Y […]
Latest news on the Div 1 and playoff weekend. The playlist can be found here Excel playlist and a pdf version here pdf playlist Camping is available for £5 per person per night, please let Steve Watts know ASAP if you want a space. steve.watts@canoepolo.org.uk Payment can be made on Saturday at the buildings next to the […]
At the beginning of December we shared the reasoning behind, and our current progress towards, the restructuring of the National League to ask for your feedback. I’m pleased to say we received some good constructive feedback, thank you to everyone that took the time to send in their thoughts! We have since consulted updated proposals with the league organisers, before discussing […]