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Welcome to Durham Wildcats Official Website**2010 - 2011 Season**

New Signings

Paul Nelson

Ivy League graduate Paul Nelson.... read more...

Kevin Bulgar

Kevin Bulger arrives on September 4th...read more...

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New Under 13 Team

Not all the excitement at the Wildcats is centred on the promotion to EBL1. For the first time ever the Club has entered a team in the U13 Boys National League. The club see this as the first step to set up a network of County wide Community Clubs and produce a golden generation of young players, year on year. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to develop the World’s biggest indoor sport in County Durham, and the man Head Coach Dave Elderkin hopes to persuade to lead the programme is Joe Riley.  Joe has 3 years National League coaching experience at U14, U16 and U18 level, all with Gateshead  Wolves in the Northern Conference. He has spent the last six months studying the training methods of one of Spain’s best development programmes with Club Estudintes, Madrid – Spain are ranked No. 2 in World Basketball behind the USA – and Joe is keen to pass on the skills and knowledge he has acquired to County Durham youngsters.

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***BREAKING NEWS***

WILDCATS UNDER 18 FACE TOURNAMENT CHALLENGE

Durham Wildcats U18 National League Squad have accepted an invitation to the Sheffield Hallam Tournament to be played on Sunday 5th September in Sheffield

12.15   DERBY v ARROWS
13.45   DERBY v WILDCATS
15.10   ARROWS v WILDCATS

WILDCATS TO FACE EAGLES

Newcastle Eagles and Durham Wildcats have agreed to a pre season friendly to be played on Friday 10th September at the Eagles new home court, SPORT CENTRAL at NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY. The match tips off at 7.30pm.

Ticket Details will be released by the Eagles. www.newcastle-eagles.co.uk

Wildcats Head Coach Dave Elderkin expects that all new signings will be available to play

On the Prowl

Wildcats Make Progrss

With just over a month to go before the first tip-off Head Coach Dave Elderkin reports good progress as he looks to build a first team squad of 16 to take on the challenges of EBL1 and the BUCS Premiership. Subject to a few final details, Dave hopes all of the players listed will be wearing Wildcats uniforms this season.
Mark Paul Stephen Michael
Mark Elderkin, Paul Elderkin, Stephen Jones and Michael Davies, all regurlar starter's in the last 2 seasons, are looking forward to the new campaign
John Sam Jordan Adam

Into the 16 and challenging for minutes: John Morgan, Sam Chambers, Jordan Bohannon and Adam Henderson, all played for Team Durham Wildcats last season and if your maths work 4 + 4 + 8 - which players take us to 16?

maybe these 5 new signings?

Colm Hickey

6'3'' Guard

Loughborough

Kevin Bulger

6'3'' Guard

Coumbia - USA

Chris Pearce

6'4'' Guard

Northumbria

Paul Nelson

6'10'' Centre

Yale- USA

Graham Pape 6 ' 8'' Forward Tyne Met

Your saw it first on the official website, and as soon as Visas, transfers and International clearance are complete, you'll get full details right here. We first came across Colm when he played for the Irish Universitites in the 2009 4 Nations Competition - last season Colm played for Loughborough. Chris, a full Welsh International, was a key player for the Team Northumbria last season and division 2's fourth highest scorer, and has been on the Wildcats radar for sometime. A former student of Northumbria, Graham Pape was a Wildcat in our Division 3 days, and has 1st Division experience with the Teesside Mohawks. For those of you keen to find out about our new overseas players google Columbia University Basketball for Kevin and Yale University Basketball for Paul. Also in the frame are second year Durham University point guard Luke Watson and Andrew Bottger a 6' 6'' fresher from Switzerland. - 1 place left! - fingers crossed we get another Anthony Trigg or Andrea Consolati.