Morgan Park known as world’s best

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Aug 232011
 
Polocrosse Association of Australia board members

Polocrosse Association of Australia board members (front, from left) Odette Neumann, Gil Mathie, Fiona Nixon (back) Col Bloomfield, Les Fraser, Rodney Geppert, Barney Langford with Jonathan Grady (ASC) at the Coachman Inn yesterday.

WARWICK has the best polocrosse facility in the world, not just Australia, according to national president Gil Mathie.

Mr Mathie was in Warwick at the weekend for the NTI Rosebowl competition and yesterday’s Polocrosse Association of Australia board meeting.

This was the first time the board had met in Warwick, with most meetings held in Sydney.

Mr Mathie said people from other countries agreed Morgan Park was the best facility in the world.

“They don’t even question it as the best,” he said.

The board discussed next year’s nationals on April 23-29 at Morgan Park, which are expected to attract 60 teams from all states.

While he admits Tasmania and South Australia are not as strong as the other states, Mathie said the South Australians would have a strong junior team in Warwick. Continue reading »

For the First Time in History, the USA Polocrosse Team Achieves Top Four Ranking at the 2011 World Cup

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Aug 222011
 

August 20, 2011, Dallas, TX — When the final American Polocrosse Association USA team roster was announced in November, 2010, there was nothing short of serious dedication by the four men and four women as they prepared for the 2011 World Cup, which took place in July in Rugby, UK. Coach Jane Cooper, a two-time member of the Australian World Cup Champion team, expected nothing less and was an excellent motivator for team USA. The team members were expected to use their racquets on a daily basis, work on their physical fitness levels, ride as much as possible, and attend numerous tournaments. There were also many required team training camps along the way. Jane also stressed how important it was not only for the team members to be positive and united, but believe in themselves that they can win the World Cup. As the days grew closer to the commencement of the World Cup, the team’s main focus was to hit the ground running, by beating the 2007 World Cup Reserve Champions, the UK team, in the first game of the World Cup, and that they did! In the pouring down rain, the USA team pulled a huge upset for the home team with a final score of 17-12. After the game, many compliments from the polocrosse community were made to coach Cooper about the team’s ability to play smart polocrosse. Continue reading »

The Two Rivers Technology 2011 Polocrosse World Cup

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Aug 112011
 

Polocrosse Extreme,  Iain Heaton

Review:

263124_10150212817307294_540037293_6879427_4343669_nOkay so we completely failed to deliver up to date scores, match reports or breaking news during the competition, mainly because our entire editorial team was either helping run the event or because they were slightly drunk (editor’s note: mainly the former but definitely the latter on the final night!). It will be a very different story for South Africa 2015 where we intend to just go and report live from the pitch-side for each match, we might even do some online streaming.

The World Cup’s website has got all the results and final placings and so the next best thing we thought we could do is write a review of the event, the matches, the teams, the horses and anything else we couple think of! So here goes: Continue reading »

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Marvelous Zimbabwe

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Aug 112011
 

and-the-sticks-were-swingingEddie Cross:

For all our troubles this is a great place to live and raise children. I was attending a birthday party for my grandson who has just turned 8, he had invited 29 little boys of his own age (no girls) and they had a “Pirate Party” organized by my daughter. Those boys had a great evening and some stayed over to sleep in tents on the lawn.

One of the parents, sitting on the stoep coined the phrase “marvelous Zimbabwe” as it was a beautiful evening, blue skies, about 25 c and no humidity. Nearby the national cricket team was busy beating Bangladesh in a 5 days test at the Harare Sports Club – a great Dutch style complex of green grass and bars in the center of town, next to the magnificent Royal Harare Golf Course. I recalled meeting a businessman in London who said to me (we had just won the ICC Trophy) “there is nothing wrong with a country that can play first class cricket!” In a way he had a point. Continue reading »

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Challenge International de Polocrosse

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Aug 022011
 

L’équipe de polocrosse français à remporté haut la main le Challenge International de Polocrosse organisée dans le cadre de la Coupe du Monde, qui s’est déroulée du 9 au 17 juillet 2011 dans la ville de Rugby au Royaume Uni.

Huit cavaliers français et leurs montures se sont mesurés à des équipes de trois autres pays : Allemagne, Hollande, Norvège/Europe. La France a remporté tous ses matches de pré-selection et s’est retrouvée en finale contre l’Allemagne. Continue reading »

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World Cup Photographer websites, DVD’s and TV channels

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Aug 022011
 
264828_249034118440750_221903921153770_1085859_405353_nDear All,
Firstly I would just like to reiterate what i said at the IPC meeting, thank you to all the countries for coming and competing and putting up with the various problems which happened both before and during the event. Also a massive thank you to the Irish Polocrosse Association and their members for sending horses over to play, without which we would have not have had so many good horses in the pools. Continue reading »
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