School Leaver Course Guide 2023-24
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Academy for Sport<br />
IN A<br />
LEAGUE<br />
OF OUR<br />
OWN.<br />
We work in partnership with some<br />
of the region's well-known sporting<br />
organisations including the Newcastle<br />
Eagles and Gateshead Football Club.<br />
Newcastle Eagles<br />
We've teamed up with the country's<br />
most successful team in British<br />
basketball, the Newcastle Eagles,<br />
to give talented players the chance to<br />
bring out the best in their basketball<br />
performance while studying at college.<br />
Not only do we deliver our<br />
Basketball Academy in partnership<br />
with the Eagles but our Head Coach<br />
is also the Eagles legend and recently<br />
retired player, Drew Lasker.<br />
Originally from Houston, Texas,<br />
Drew has 15 years experience of<br />
playing professional basketball in the<br />
BBL, having played the last seven years<br />
for the Eagles as guard.<br />
FLYING<br />
HIGH.<br />
Former academy players who are now<br />
playing for the Newcastle Eagles:<br />
Themba Yabantu<br />
Sauveur Kande<br />
Sean Murphy<br />
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