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The facility is home to the College's sports students and prestigious sports academies who train alongside elite athletes.

20/09/2024

Congratulations to our Athletics Academy student, Lauren, who has been selected on to England Athletics' Youth Talent Programme.

Lauren will complete her DiSE qualification (Diploma in Sporting Excellence), as well as attending development workshops with the National talent team coaches.

Well done Lauren 👏

If you're currently in school year 11 and interested in finding out more about the Athletics National Talent Pathway, email our Head of Athletics on [email protected]

England Athletics
Gateshead College
Start 2 Finish - Sports Coaching

20/09/2024

Welcome to the team 🏐🏉

Whoop! What a result for ! Alun and Michael have joined us as our two new sport coaches. Read all about them here: https://bit.ly/4e7mIQH 👏

20/09/2024

Great week in the tank for all our 200+ players in the Men’s Football Academy ⚽️

19/09/2024

Are you a boxing coach 🥊with a passion for motivating and developing young talent? We're on the hunt for a dynamic coach to add to our existing team. We would love to hear from you,

Apply now below 👇

Gateshead College has a long-established reputation for sport and we’re currently looking for a Boxing Coach to join our team.

19/09/2024

Are you a netball coach 🏐 with a passion for motivating and developing young talent? We're on the hunt for a dynamic coach to add to our existing team. We would love to hear from you,

Apply now below 👇

Gateshead College has a long-established reputation for sport and we’re currently looking for a Netball Assistant Coach to join our team.

18/09/2024

Good luck to our men’s and women’s academy today with their fixtures 🤟⚽️

17/09/2024

A great session today working on team building, movement and fun postional play 👏👏👏👏

16/09/2024

The basketball academy were back to it today working hard in training 🏀

15/09/2024

Looks like you all had a great session 👏👏👏

13/09/2024

Congratulations to our Athletics Academy student Emily, who won the Stan Long Trophy as part of the Junior Great North Run events last weekend!

Well done Emily 👏 🏅 🏆

England Athletics
Great North Run
Jarrow and Hebburn Athletic Club
Start 2 Finish - Sports Coaching

12/09/2024

Our Women’s Football academy for 24/25 ⚽️

11/09/2024

Start of the league today for our girls and a start of a journey! ⚽️

11/09/2024

Good luck to our ⚽️ teams taking part in their games today 🍀

10/09/2024

Great session today for the netball acsdemy 🏐 working on team building, ball work and match play 👏👏👏👏

06/09/2024

05/09/2024

⚽️ Are you an experienced football coach with a passion for motivating and developing young talent? We're on the hunt for a dynamic coach to add to our existing team. We would love to hear from you,

apply here now:

https://shorturl.at/lT2J4

Closing date 18th September 24

Gateshead College Academy for Sport are seeking to recruit a football coach to coach within our Men's Football Academy and Development programme. You will be responsible for planning, delivering and evaluating a coordinated programme of activity on and off the pitch to provide quality coaching, lear...

03/09/2024

Not sure what to do this September?
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31/08/2024

We're delighted to announce the appointment of Adam McGuinness as our new goalkeeping coach! 🙌🏁

Welcome to Gateshead, Adam! 🤝

🔗 gateshead-fc.com/ladies-adam-mcguinness-joins-as-goalkeeping-coach/

29/08/2024

🏐 Final pre season session today for the netball academy. Great work on jumping and landing and movement. Looking forward to getting started next week 🏐
It’s not to late to join the netball academy if your enrolled at Gateshead College. For more info contact Head Coach Julie on

[email protected]

28/08/2024

Welcome to the team Alun Armstrong
⚽️ Head of Elite and Performance Football

Alun is an English former professional footballer and manager, he recently managed Darlington. During his playing career, Armstrong operated primarily as a forward. His career as a player, which ran between 1993 and 2007, included spells at Newcastle United, Stockport County, Middlesbrough, Ipswich Town, two spells at Darlington, Rushden & Diamonds and concluding it with a brief spell at Newcastle Blue Star. He has also enjoyed loan spells at Huddersfield Town, Bradford City and Doncaster Rovers. Alun entered into club management in 2016, joining Blyth Spartans, achieving promotion to the National League North in his first season in charge. He left the club in 2019, agreeing to join Darlington as their new manager.

For more info on the football academy you can contact Alun on

[email protected]

27/08/2024

Say hi to Enzo, our A Level student.

After combing A Level art and media with sports science and our basketball academy, Enzo is heading over to Hungary to play for Budapest Prep in the European Youth Basketball League. 👏 🏀

23/08/2024

We would like to welcome our new full time 🏉 Rugby Coach

Michael Van Vuuren

Born in East London, South Africa, Michael was schooled at Grey High School in Port Elizabeth. He played in the Grey first team in 2008 and 2009. After school, he signed with Free State and, in 2011. He also represented the South African under-20 team at the Junior World Cup that year. In a professional career spanning more than 13 years, Michael has represented Stade Francais in the Top 14 and English club sides like Bath, Northampton, Wasps and most recently, Newcastle Falcons. Michael returned to South Africa, representing the Lions in the Currie Cup and URC. Whilst in Johannesburg, he was a coaching consultant for St Stithians College and throwing coach for the SA Schools captain, He is also currently the Head Coach at Alnwick RFC.

If you would like to join the men’s or women’s rugby academy please email

[email protected]

19/08/2024

Now is your time, for class mates, proper graft and sound staff. Like the look of college life? Come and join us at one of our enrolment events. Sign up here: https://bit.ly/34IqbRE

13/08/2024

Say hi to Ruby, our DiSE boxing academy student. 🥊

After studying with us for two years she's now moving onto Teesside University in September.

Good luck Ruby!

11/08/2024

A huge congratulations to our DiSE Boxing coach Gavin Rickelton on his international coaching success. Gavin has been working with Team England’s Youth Performance Team at the Brandenburg Cup in Germany. Team England achieved outstanding results being awarded:

TEAM OF THE TOURNAMENT 🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Nine gold, one silver, one bronze 🥇🥈🥉

Best Female Boxer ✅
Best Male Boxer ✅
Best Female Finals Day bout ✅

Winning 26 out of 30 International Contests.

07/08/2024

03/08/2024

Say hi to Caitlin our Sports and Exercise Science student. 🙌

After playing in our Women's Football Academy, Caitlin has developed her football skills and has been selected for a scholarship at Iowa Lakes Community College in America. ⚽

Congrats Caitlin!

26/07/2024

Congratulations and good luck to former netball academy Captain Holly Jones 👏👏👏

17/07/2024

Awesome training session today with the netball academy working on bands, movement, attacking, team work and match play 👏👏👏👏

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Friday only means one thing…fun day 😎🥳

Our Women’s Football academy for 24/25 ⚽️

A great team bonding session down the beach for our women’s football academy yesterday followed by some well deserved fish n chips 🐟 🍟

Our Basketball Academy were back at it this week with pre season training. Great to see so many new faces. Fab work everyone. It’s not too late to enrol 🏀 For more info contact [email protected]

See how good our Women’s Football Academy players are at their next challenge! 📸. Lots of fun! #womensfootball #thisgirlcan

A flash back to our successful trip to the AoC Athletics North event in Leeds earlier this week. Well done to our Athletes for all of their efforts on the day and throughout the year during training. Find out how you can join our Athletics Academy via the link below 👇 https://www.gateshead.ac.uk/events/say-hello-athletics #HardWorkWins #Athlete #Students #StudentAthlete #Athletics #AoC #trackandfield #Sport #Winners Gateshead College Leeds Beckett University AoC Sport England Athletics Start 2 Finish - Sports Coaching

Miami 24 ❤️

👀 Fancy a kick about at the Heed? Secure a place 🤩⚽️ | If you require any further information please 📧: [email protected] https://www.gateshead.ac.uk/events/say-hello-to-womens-football

Numbers are flying! Come and have a kick about at the heed 🤩⚽️ https://www.gateshead.ac.uk/events/say-hello-to-womens-football

Try Time 🔥🏉

🏉🔥 Sophie Richardson finished off a fantastic team try in Wednesday’s AoC NE & Midlands League victory over TyneMet/Bede College. That result see’s the girls sit at the top of the league with 1 more game to go. #TeamGateshead #HardWorkWins #WomensRugby #Rugby #inspirationalwomen

Sign up for our taster morning! Limited spaces available 👀🤩 https://www.gateshead.ac.uk/events/say-hello-to-womens-football

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Calling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Women’s Captain Sophie Price has been called up to Scotland U18’s for the upcoming 6 Nations Festival. A few people wanted to pass on their congratulations too……….

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Calling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Women’s Captain Sophie Price has been called up to Scotland U18’s for the upcoming 6 Nations Festival. A few people wanted to pass on their congratulations too……….

🎥 Trylights 🏉 Trylights from last weeks win over Hartlepool 6th Form College. Want to know more about our Women's Rugby Academy click on the following link https://www.gateshead.ac.uk/sports-academies/womens-rugby-academy Sign Up for our Taster Day - https://www.gateshead.ac.uk/events/say-hello-womens-rugby Durham County Rugby Football Union Durham County RFU Women and Girls Northumberland RFU Gateshead College #TeamGateshead #hardworkwins #womensrugby #rugby #collegerugby #gatesheadcollege #Trylights #highlights

🎥 Trylights 🏉 Trylights from last weeks win over Brooksby Melton College. Want to know more about our Women's Rugby Academy click on the following link https://www.gateshead.ac.uk/sports-academies/womens-rugby-academy Durham County Rugby Football Union Northumberland RFU Durham County RFU Women and Girls Gateshead College #TeamGateshead #hardworkwins #womensrugby #rugby #collegerugby #gatesheadcollege #Trylights #highlights

"Kicking off team bonding week at Gateshead Women's Academy with a fun forfeit challenge! ⚽🤣 Strengthening bonds, one kick at a time. #TeamBonding #GWAFunTimes"

England Boxing’s DiSE Programme is now recruiting for September 2024. Please contact DiSE & England Boxing Performance Pathway Coach Gavin Rickelton for more information. [email protected]

Apply now for September 2024. Contact DiSE & England Boxing Performance Pathway Coach Gavin Rickelton: [email protected]

Huge well done to our Netball Academy players Evie Iles, Eve Waterston and Olivia Metcalf for this weekends 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 camp. Congratulations to Evie as well for CPOM 👏👏👏👏