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College Coaches in National Squads
Thursday, 05 April, 2018
Wakefield College are proud to have both Men’s Head Football Coach and Men’s Head Rugby Coach part of the national teams.
Ben Severn, Head Football Coach has been selected as one of the coaches for the England Colleges U18s National team on top of his duties at Wakefield College.
Part of his role is to talent ID players in the college and the north of England to…
Wakefield College at the College Games 2018
Thursday, 22 March, 2018
Wakefield College hosted the College Games at Lightwaves Leisure Centre.
Joined by Bradford College, Greenhead College, Pontefract New College, Leeds City College, Leeds College of Building and Calderdale College, teams took part in football, table tennis, dodgeball and disability sports go ball and boccia.
Yasmin Ayub, Tackling Inactivity Project Lead at Wakefield…
Women and Girl’s Football on the Grow in Wakefield
Tuesday, 20 March, 2018
After a successful year as part of the SSE Wildcats Football Centre project pilot, Wakefield College are now delighted to be working in partnership with local primary schools adding two new centres at Martin Frobisher Infant School, Normanton All Saints Infant School, in addition to their existing centre at Lightwaves Leisure Centre.
SSE Wildcats Girls’ Football Centres…
Wakefield College at the National Championships
Monday, 12 February, 2018
This year sees Wakefield College enter four talented students from the Academy of Sporting Excellence into the Association of Colleges Sport National Championships. The National Championships are held annually and comprises of the best athletes in the United Kingdom selected from each region. Each region competes for points in an Olympic style event and the winning region takes home the…
Rugby Starlet signs pro contract
Monday, 12 February, 2018
Wakefield College Rugby Development Programme (RDP) player Stephen Gibbs has signed a professional contract with Halifax RLFC.
Wakefield College learning difficulty and disability sport programme
Wednesday, 20 December, 2017
Wakefield College started their learning difficulty and disability sport programme off this week with a futsal tournament against other colleges from around Yorkshire and Humberside.
Wakefield College going to the AoC Sport National Championships
Friday, 10 February, 2017
Wakefield College will be flying the flag for Yorkshire this April as Mark Bostock, a 1st year on the Sports Performance & Excellence course will be running in the Men’s Cross Country Final on Saturday 22 April 2017.