Antonia Bunyan feared her goalball career was over before it had barely begun but is now celebrating a nomination for SportsAid’s prestigious One-to-Watch Award. York’s Bunyan, 19, began the year recovering from a fractured elbow but in her first competition back suffered a wrist injury. An operation on her throwing hand was followed by [...]
Goalball UK has made changes to its workforce structure to spearhead its capacity to build upon its impressive growth over recent years. The new appointments see Alex Bunney move into a full-time position as participation lead and Steve Cox take the role of operation manager. The role for Alex has been made available following Becky [...]
Goalball UK have been shortlisted for an RNIB See Differently Award in recognition of their work to grow the sport and get more people with sight loss to participate and promote inclusion. Goalball UK has been shortlisted in the Team of the Year Award. The award seeks to recognise a team that has [...]
Great Britain women finished fourth at the IBSA European Championships in Rostock – narrowly missing out on a top three finish that could have seen Tokyo Paralympic qualification secured. In the group stages of the tournament, Great Britain overcame the odds to beat Israel, one of the pre-tournament favourites, in a pulsating 4-3 encounter, to [...]
The Rickshaw Challenge has launched with a new route, a new team, and a newly modified Rickshaw, as announced live during The One Show. The annual challenge, which is now in its ninth year, will see a team of six young people and The One Show’s Matt Baker take on the eight-day challenge. It will [...]
Goalball UK are looking to appoint members onto the Club and Competition Committee. The role will involve seeking the views of players to help inform the committees decision making. As part of the role you will discuss information that must remain confidential or is embargoed. We are looking to appoint for the following roles; [...]
The Great Britain women’s goalball team that will compete for a place at the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo has been announced. Head coach Aaron Ford has selected Sarah Leiter, Antonia Bunyan, Georgie Bullen, Meme Robertson, Kali Holder and Megan Smithson-Booth to travel to the IBSA Goalball European Championships in Rostock next month. The competition [...]
Derbyshire Ducks coach & player, and Goalball UK Official, Michael Payne is running the Sheffield 10k entirely under eyeshades to raise money for Derbyshire Ducks Goalball Club and Goalball UK. Michael has chosen to race only his second ever 10k under eyehsades as a unique way to raise money for a sport he has [...]
The GB Men's Goalball squad have launched their first conditioning programme in partnership with York St John University this week. The para-athletes arrived at the Sports Campus on Haxby Road on Monday to do some testing as they embark on a rigorous training regime. “We are hoping to take our strength and conditioning provision [...]
Intro from Chair: Goalball UK are looking to appoint a Non-Executive director to support our new strategy, Transforming More Lives. The role of the Non-Executive Director is, with the rest of the board, to constructively challenge and contribute to the development of the strategy for Goalball U.K.; to review the performance of management in [...]
