West Midlands Warriors WRC

The West Midlands Warriors (WMW) WRC are a developing club which cater for the whole of the West Midlands. The club has recently formed a partnership with the Worcester Warriors rugby club. The rugby club are supporting the WMW to recruit volunteers and players. The club welcomes all levels of experience and any one just interested in an additional training session. Read an article on the WMW recently featured in the Worcester Warriors' match day magazine here. Please also visit their Facebook page for updates on training dates and times: https://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Midlands-warriors/6...
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Paul Jenkins – Wales Sports Coach to the Disabled 2014

Top coach and top man Paul Jenkins was awarded 'Wales Sports Coach to the Disabled' at an awards ceremony in Cardiff last night. Jinx is well known to everyone in wheelchair rugby and has coached the Pirates for over ten years. Along with Mike Spence, he was one half of the coaching duo who coached the GB Invictus team to a gold medal at this year's Invictus Games. Congratulations to Jinx on a fantastic achievement and to his love...
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WWRC15: Sign up for news and tickets

Thank you to the Rugby World Cup 2015 team who are helping us to promote the World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge. Front Row goes out across the world to over a million subscribers and as soon as it was published we had a spike in registrations on the WWRC15 website. Have you and your friends signed up yet? If you want first call on news and tickets then sign up at www.wwrc15.com now as with only 6000 tickets per session demand will be high especially for the evening matches David Pond ...
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WWRC15 Community Programme Manager Appointed

Former England Hockey player and Sport England Project Manager to head World Wheelchair Rugby Community Programme Message from CEO: I am pleased to announce the appointment of Julie Bunnage as the 2015 WWRC Community Programme Manager. The post which is supported by Sport England funding will ensure that we maximise the opportunity that WWRC15 presents by building community programmes and events which increase the opportunities for people to volunteer, play and support our game. ...
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Rugbymania 2014: GBWR Talent Development Team Announcement

Phil Zealey as the lead talent development coach, and Ross Morrison the Talent Assistant Coach selected the following Talent Development squad to compete in Rugby Mania 5-7 December 2014. The Squad has been training hard over the summer months, and will compete for the first time as a team at the Rugby Mania Tournament. Alex Smart - 0.5 Richard Devine - 0.5 Ryan Cowling - 1.0 (Captain) Josh Williams - 1.5 Nick Cummins - 1.5 Jonny Collingwood - 2.0 David Anthony - 2.5 Daniel Dawoud - 2.5 Matt Hignett - 2.5 Ryan Dickin - 3.5 Lead Talent Development Coach: Phil Zealey Assistant Coach: Ross Morrison This will be their first International competitive outing, and will see the...
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Wheelchair Rugby Arrives in Dorset

GBWR are running a series of 4 taster sessions as part of our Sport England funded club development programme in a small town called “Broadstone” just outside Poole. The Dorset Destroyers are bidding to be the newest wheelchair rugby club and working in partnership with the Junction Sports & Leisure centre, the sessions have been designed to attract new players to the sport. Following the first session the numbers taking part have already increased three-fold and with visits from the local Mayor, local Councillors and the local paper the Destroyers are certainly growing at an impressive pace. With one session left on the 9th November, the Dorset Destroyers, led by Nick & Sue Coombs...
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