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13/05/2008
Cougars TV powered by Direct to Site Limited

The popular Cougars TV area is set to re-launch thanks to the support of the construction services company Direct to Site Limited (DTS). DTS are sponsoring the Cougars with new digital video equipment. The 'new' Cougars TV will offer exclusive game footage, interviews and highlights throughout the domestic, international and summer seasons. This will not only enable Coalville Basketball Club to keep all of our fans and supporters in touch with all the teams progress and successes in their newly promoted divisions and cup campaigns, but give the coaching staff a chance to review our performances and capitalise on our strengths.

DTS offer its customers a truly unique one stop shop throughout the UK, supplying construction related products to site requirements no matter how large or small the quantity may be. DTS pride themselves in being able to say YES, when most say no, for Heavy Building Materials, including Ready mixed Concrete, Aggregates, Mortar, Screed, Tarmac and Muckaway, to the Construction industry and related trades all through one telephone number - 0844 8000 144

Christopher Webster, Managing Director DTS Construction Services, said, "We are proud to be associated with the Cougars, it’s great to see local sport achieving, especially with so many young players coming through. They have excelled in their local leagues, national competition and keep pushing for excellence; both DTS and its staff will push the Cougars to continue to achieve and I offer my support as available. It’s exciting to see such ambition; they show no fear and take each game and team as they come. I wish all teams well in their newly promoted divisions and look forward to watching the future success unfold".

12/05/2008
End of Season Presentation Evening

Coalville Cougars Basketball Club are pleased to confirm the details for the Annual End of Season Presentation Evening. Following the most successful season in the club’s illustrious history, the evening promises to be a memorable one, with both teams picking up their League Championship Awards.

Booked for Friday 30th May 2008 at 7.30 for 8.00pm in the Forest Suite of The Charnwood Arms. The dress code is "Formal Dress and Green". Ticket prices are confirmed at £20, and only available to those who have paid their deposits. The evening’s entertainment will include a meal, disco and awards ceremony for the 2007/08 season.

Rooms are available at The Charnwood Arms at a special price of £35 per room - please call The Charnwood Arms Direct on 01530 813644 and quote ‘Cougars Basketball’.

The Sit Down Menu for the evening is a choice from the following – please make your decisions known to either Bruce or Charlie by Friday 16th May 2008.

Starters:-
Crisp potato wedges topped with cheese and bacon served with BBQ dip
Warm garlic bread (V)
Soup of the day with bread and butter (V)

Mains:-
British steak and ale pie served with chips and peas
Battered fish served with chips, peas and lemon
Chicken Kiev served with chips and peas
Cauliflower and cheese Tart served with chips and peas (V)

Desserts:-
Jam roly poly served with custard
Profiteroles served with chocolate sauce and ice-cream
Vanilla flavour ice cream served with chocolate sauce

The evening promises to be a fitting end to a very enjoyable year of basketball with the usual entertaining season reviews from the committee members!

06/05/2008
League and Association AGM Dates

Both the L&RBA and the LBBL have announced dates for their Annual General Meetings. The Leicestershire Basketball League (LBBL) AGM will take place on Monday 12th May at 7.45pm at the Old Anstey Working Men's Club. Presentation of League Trophies will precede this meeting.

Also taking place later this month will be the Leicestershire & Rutland Basketball Association (L&RBA) AGM. This meeting will take place at the Beauchamp College, Oadby on Wednesday 21st May and starts at 7.30pm.

01/05/2008
Junior League to launch for 2008/09

The all new Leicestershire Junior Basketball League is scheduled to tip off for the 2008/09 season. The LJBL is being introduced due to the lack of organised junior Basketball in the local area and will be an more informal junior version of the current senior Leicestershire league. If your club have a junior team or you have a group of Basketball players aged 16 years and under please click here to join in the fun!

07/04/2008
Cougars take on the RAF

The Coalville Cougars are playing a special game against the National Under 23 RAF team. This friendly game is part of the RAF's preparations for their 3 way tournament against the Navy and Army.

The Head Coach for RAF Basketball picked the Cougars as one of the high quality teams in the area and the Cougars are only too happy to help any of the British forces. The game is scheduled for 8pm on Thursday 17th April at the RAF Wittering base.

24/02/2008
Cougars miss Founders Cup Semi-Final

In their first season competition in the National Founders Cup the Coalville Cougars did themselves proud by reaching the Quarter Finals. After going down 17 points in the first leg it would need to be a super human effort to overturn the result in the 2nd leg at Cambridge who hadn't lost a game so far. After a valiant effort Coalville dealt Cambridge their first lost coming out victors by 16 points. Although it wasn't enough to see Coalville through to the Semi-Final it was an excellent team effort and everyone at Coalville Basketball can be pleased with these further steps to the next level.

Chairman Lee Alesbrook said "We have come to the end of our Founders Cup run, for this year anyway. I would like to thank all those that took time out, normally on a Sunday, and at some obscure times to show what Coalville Basketball is about. We showed that we can play at a higher level so lets build on this and look forward to next years competition. We lost out by only 1 point on an aggregate basis so we will be looking to go a stage further in next years event".

18/02/2008
Central Sports Coalville Basketball Club

Coalville Basketball Club are pleased to announce new title sponsor Central Sports. Melton Mowbray based Central Sports was first established in 1970 to serve the needs of the growing Basketball community. For the next thirty years they continued to grow and in the process gained many loyal customers. In 2000 the company was bought by England Basketball, the governing body for the sport and traded as England Basketball Enterprises until 2006 when Central Sports was reborn.

The company has now grown to include many other products and services as well as still leading in Basketball supplies. Central Sports was and still is a family run, friendly company to whom the customer is the main concern. The partners are Maggie and Alan Hodgkinson with their son, Paul.

Central Sports are now automatically identified with the club and we will be now known as the 'Central Sports Coalville Basketball Club'. Please visit www.centralsports.org.uk for more information.

04/02/2008
Harvey Denied

Unfortunately the latest player to be attracted to Coalville Basketball Club has been denied permission to play for the club during the remainder of the 2008/09 season. Harvey Scott recently moved into the area from the USA but unfortunately will have to wait until September before he can suit up for the Cougars. The decision was voted on at a recent league meeting with a unanimous 'no' outcome. The club tried to prove that our squad wasn't being strengthened, with our best point guard sitting out the remainder of the season and the fact we are top of our division unfortunately didn't have any effect.

Cougars representative Simon Hoult commented "The unanimous decision surprised me. Whilst I understand why the rules are in place, we are disappointed that someone is being pushed away. Had the Cougars been playing in the National League Harvey would still have been eligible to sign right up to the end of January rather than the Leicestershire end of December cut off. Even further surprise is that the Leicestershire season is a month longer so the signing deadline is 4 months from the end of the season compared to the 2 months of England Basketball. We just hope that Harvey decides to stay with the club and more importantly doesn't lose interest in the game".

06/08/2007
Development Games vs Blazers

The Coalville Cougars are scheduled to play the Bosworth Blazers in two friendly games during September. The first game will be hosted by Coalville on Wednesday 5th September at 7.15pm. Whilst the return leg will be held at Bosworth on Friday 14th September at 7.45pm. The games will hopefully give both teams a good warm-up for the very different challenges they face in the upcoming season. The Cougars are looking forward to tasting their first National Founders Cup action and with their first game being very close to the start of the season these friendly games are very important.

The Blazers will be tipping off their season for the first time in Division 1 and the Cougars would like to take this opportunity to wish them the very best with their new challenge!

06/07/2007
2006/07 Basketball Awards

This years End of Season Presentation took place at the Hermitage Park Hotel and marked another stage in Coalville Basketball's development.

Chairman Lee Alesbrook started things off with a review of the past 12 months. The Cougars knew things were going to be tough after being placed in division 2 but stepped up to the challenge in what was set to be one of the most competitive divisions many players around the league could remember. Difficult injury problems with 4 of the previous seasons starting 5 missing posed problems but the Cougars still did themselves proud and managed to finish 3rd overall.

Another reason to celebrate was the excellent job done off the court. In a season with other clubs being thrown out of the league, the Cougars did the job both on and off court, and set the stage for further developments in 2008.

Coalville Basketball Club with continue to progress and continue the professional attitude that got the club to this position. The sponsorship attained along with the addition of the Summer Hoops league and another International event in Holland shows the strength of the organisation. This will be built on with a pre-season team building weekend, entry to the National Founders Cup, new team and a new look kit for the 2007/08 season.

Special thanks go to Lee Alesbrook and Steven Farmer for picking up the organising at a late stage and making a success of the evening.

29/06/2007
Cougars go National!

The Coalville Cougars have raised the bar yet again by being accepted to join one of the oldest events in the basketball calendar, the National Founders Cup. This National Cup dates back to 1951 and is an opportunity for non-national league teams aspiring to national league status to show how they can perform at national level. A good showing in the cup would assist in any applications to enter in future seasons.

The entries are split into regions before going on to Quarter and Semi-Final ties against other regional winners with the Final being played alongside the National League Playoff Finals in April 2008. All competition information and results will appear on englandbasketball.com shortly.

12/06/2007
Season Presentation Evening

The Coalville Basketball Club are pleased to announce that this years End of Season Celebration will take place on the 6th July 2007. The evening will be similar to last year with food, disco, Basketball awards and will take place at The Hermitage Park Hotel (Near Morrison's in Coalville).

As always both past and present members of Coalville Basketball Club are invited along with their friends and family. Entry will be around £20 per adult (dependent on numbers). Rooms are available at the Hotel at around £60 including breakfast. Please register your availability on our message board.