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Sunday 9th October 2011 UK Club Championships
| Game 1 | Raptors | 128 | v | 184 | Enigma |
| Game 2 | Cannons | 127 | v | 125 | Hellcats |
| Game 3 | Raptors | F | v | F | Hellcats |
| Game 4 | Enigma | 128 | v | 195 | Cannons |
| Game 5 | Enigma | 199 | v | 221 | Hellcats |
| Game 6 | Cannons | 141 | v | 80 | Raptors |
Rock-It-Ball Northern Ireland
Sponsored by Starbucks
We are pleased to announce that the Coffee Giant Starbucks have sponsored the Northen Ireland Rock-It-Ball Association.
CEO Nigel Martin said "Starbucks have been amazing not only by the support shown in their sponsorship but also with the help they are providing in advertising our sport throughout Northern Ireland" More information will follow and the RIBNI website will be up and running within the next week or so where more information on the deal and Rock-It-Ball in Northern Ireland will be posted.
Well the 2nd IRIBF Rock-It-Ball World Cup (5 v 5) is at an end and Scotland have retained the World Cup for the second term running. England who placed 3rd in the last World Cup took 2nd place and Denmark 3rd place.
| IRIBF World Cup 2011 Score's | |
| Scotland 293 v 138 Denmark | |
| England Youth 162 v 231 England Senior | |
| Denmark 206 v 242 England Youth | |
| England Senior 157 v 186 Scotland | |
| Scotland 197 v 168 England Youth | |
| England Senior 184 v 136 Denmark | |
The V2 Senior World Cup will took place on Saturday the 20th August 2011 at The Grammar School Leeds commencing at 10:00am resiluts of games are shown below
Placings for Senior V2
| 1st | Scott MacMichael | Scotland |
| 2nd | Tom Hildreth | England |
| 3rd | Chris Doherty | Scotland |
| 4th | M Bergstein | Denmark |
| 5th | Mhari Claire McGovern | Scotland |
| 6th | Tommy McGovern | Scotland |
| 7th | Jonny Main | Scotland |
| 8th | F Salskov- Iverson | Denmark |
| 9th | Matty Carr | England |
| 10th | Benjamin Salbo | Denmark |
| Time | Court | Pool 1 | Court | Pool 2 |
| 10:00 | Court 1 | B Salbo 26 v 77 T McGovern | Court 2 | M Bergstein 47 v 46 M McGovern |
| 10:20 | Court 2 | T Hildreth 82 v 62 J Main | Court 1 | F Salskov- Iverson 30 v 54 S MacMichael |
| 10:40 | Court 1 | C Doherty 61 v 67 T Hildreth | Court 2 | M Carr 35 v 49 F Salskov- Iverson |
| 11:00 | Court 2 | J Main 94 v 41 B Salbo | Court 1 | S MacMichael 57 v 45 M Bergstein |
| 11:20 | Court 1 | J Main 94 v 107 T McGovern | Court 2 | S MacMichael 64 v 45 M McGovern |
| 11:40 | Court 2 | C Doherty 76 v 31 B Salbo | Court 1 | M Carr 38 v 64 M Bergstein |
| 12:00 | Court 1 | B Salbo 20 v 77 T Hildreth | Court 2 | M Bergstein 58 v 48 F Salskov- Iverson |
| 12:20 | Court 2 | T McGovern 46 v 47 C Doherty | Court 1 | M McGovern 68 v 59 M Carr |
| 12:40 | Court 1 | C Doherty 74 v 70 J Main | Court 2 | M Carr 23 v 79 S MacMichael |
| 13:00 | Court 2 | T Hildreth 84 v 74 T McGovern | Court 1 | F Salskov- Iverson 59 v 64 M McGovern |
Finals
| 13:30 | 5 v 5 | B Salbo 37 v 51 M Carr |
| 13:50 | 4 v 4 | J Main 74 v 49 F Salskov- Iverson |
| 14:10 | 3 v 3 | T McGovern 0 v 1 MC McGovern |
| 14:30 | 2 v 2 | C Doherty 64 v 43 M Bergstein |
| 14:50 | 1 v 1 | T Hildreth 69 v 85 S MacMichael |
Results for the Ace! Activity Camps V2 Youth World Cup 2011
Congratulations to Dan Raper for winning the inaugural V2 Youth World Cup sponsored by Ace! Activity Camps.
1st Dan Raper
2nd Scott Snowdon
3rd Aaron Perry
4th Meghan Plummer
5th Derek Van der Westhuizen
6th Hannah Hale
Joint 7th Sarah Cooper and Marcus Exelby
9th Sara Plummer
10th Mathew Horsfield
11th Davis Wishart
12th Aimee Robson
The IRIBF Person of the Year and Executive Awards
The time of year is upon us when we are to announce the recipients of the new IRIBF person of the year and the IRIBF Executive Awards. The awards are given by the IRIBF Executive in recognition of the dedication shown over the year by people involved in our sport.
Recipients of the Executive Award 2010
Conrad Broughton
Gordon Archibald
Lesley Archibald
Ian Crosby
Tom Hildreth
Tracy Pennock
Maggie Hildreth
Dan Raper
Andy Noddings
Osama Abu Jafar
Matti Bergstein
Carl Alsop
The Recipient of the IRIBF Person of the Year Award
The IRIBF Person of the Year Award goes to Conrad Broughton who, with zero budget and in the face of local internal politics, has worked tirelessly and alone to develop Rock-It-Ball in North Lincolnshire. He has drawn on his inner drive and determination and has demonstrated exceptional perseverance and innovation as a result of which he is now seeing real progress in the area.
It is a privilege to work alongside these amazing people who give their time freely to develop, grow and nurture our sport and we look forward to an amazing 2011 and taking our sport to even greater heights. The awards will be presented at the Youth v2 World Cup on Sunday 20th February 2011.
Ripon Makes Rock-It-Ball History!
A North Yorkshire school which was established in 1555 made history again recently by embracing the future! The old and the new joined forces as the historic Ripon Grammar School became the first Centre of Excellence for Yorkshire’s young sport Rock-It-Ball, widely described as ‘the fastest-growing sport on the planet.
Rock-It-Ball has enjoyed unparalleled growth since its launch in 2006, spreading rapidly into schools, colleges, universities, youth groups, the military, PCTs and spreading its tentacles into 20 countries of which ten now have National Governing Bodies.
The move to making Ripon Grammar School a Rock-It-Ball Centre of Excellence was spearheaded by Ripon’s Director of Sport, Helen Mackenzie who put forward the idea to the International Rock-It-Ball Federation. She arranged a meeting so that officers of the Federation and the England Rock-It-Ball Association could visit the facilities and meet the Headmaster, Martin Pearman and the Head of PE, Siobhan Gilfillan.
Following a successful meeting it was agreed that Ripon Grammar School would not only become the sport’s first Centre of Excellence but would also be appointed as the National Centre of Excellence for Rock-It-Ball.
CEO of the England Rock-It-Ball Association, Ian Crosby, was delighted: “This is fantastic. What a wonderful venue – beautiful location, fantastic facilities that are central and easily accessible. But most importantly it needs a champion who has the drive, vision and enthusiasm to make it succeed and Ripon certainly has that in Helen. This is a fantastic day for both Ripon Grammar School and Rock-It-Ball – not only is this the first Centre of Excellence, it becomes our National Centre of Excellence. ”
Helen was also pleased with the outcome: “I was introduced to Rock-It-Ball about 3 years ago and played for the Easi-RockIts HellFighters in the League. A successful lottery bid enabled me to introduce it into the 21 Ripon schools and the impact it has had so far has been phenomenal. I love how this sport caters for all abilities, including the children who don't normally get involved in competitive sport. It is just so inclusive and I want Ripon to lead the way. We have lots of things planned both for Ripon schools in general and for the National Centre of Excellence “
As the National Centre of Excellence, Ripon Grammar School will be instrumental in assisting the growth of the sport, will establish a local Rock-It-Ball club, host coaching conventions, international training courses and workshops, and will be the home of the England and GB squads.
We are pleased to announce that the venue for the Youth V2 World Cup 2011 has been confirmed as Garforth Squash and Leisure Centre the address is posted below. The event will commence at 10:00am on Sunday the 20th February 2011 and finish at around 5:00pm. The venue is ideally placed just off the M1 near Leeds and very easy to get to so we hope that we will have a lot of spectators involved to cheer on the players.
Once all players have been confirmed we will be doing a competition to see who can correctly predict the top 3 players so keep looking here to get that information.
Garforth Squash and Leisure Club
Ninelands Lane
Garforth
Leeds
LS25 1NX
V2 World Cup
Another player has confirmed his place in the line up for the V2 World Cup, Matty Horsfield of the Northallerton Rock-It-Ball Club, Matty said "Wow what an honour to be selected for this event I cant wait" so that's 3 down and 9 to go watch this space for more news on the V2 Youth World Cup
The IRIBF are pleased to announce that our first two players have confirmed their availability Sara and Meghan Plummer of the Falkirk Cannons that produced the Senior World Cup 2nd and 3rd placed players in Scott McLellan and Tommy McGovern. Safe to say that they will be getting some sound advice from Scott and Tommy and their Coach Davie Straiton.
The IRIBF is pleased to announce that the inaugural V2 Youth World Cup will take place on Sunday 20th February 2011 as with the Senior World Cup all 12 players will be selected and names will be posted as we have confirmation.
We will once again give people the chance to win a prize for correctly predicting 1st, 2nd and 3rd place correctly so watch this space for more information.
History has been made again with the establishment of Rock-It-Ball's first Centre of Excellence which is going to be the National Centre of Excellence. We now wait for the confirmation from the Board of Governors which we believe will be a formality. Helen Mackenzie who is the Director of Sports for Ripon Schools has spearheaded the project on the schools behalf and met representatives from both ERIBA and the IRIBF to conclude negotiations. ERIBA CEO Ian Crosby said "Its great to see that there are people like Helen that have the vision to see the benefits of Rock-It-Ball" The facilities at the school are second to none and we hope to be using it for a multitude of events in the future.
The IRIBF complete the next link in the chain for administration with World Regional Associations, "Although 6 areas have been identified we believe that we will need to break them down as more countries come on board" said IRIBF Commissioner Craig Buttery
The Regions are Europe, America's, Africa's, GCC, Asia and Oceania, furthermore we are pleased to announce that we have the first 3 CEO's whose responsibility will be to develop Rock-it-Ball and organise competition in their region.
We must congratulate Carl Alsop (Europe), Ibrahim Elhadary (Africa's) and Andy Noddings (GCC) for their appointment as CEO's and wish them the best of luck in their efforts to drive our sport onward and upward.
The IRIBF V2 World Cup took place today Sunday 22nd August at Thornton Le Dale Squash Club. From the moment players started to walk through the door and begin their preparations it was obvious that this was going to be something special and guess what ..... they didnt let us down in any way shape or form, hot favourites were Scott McLellan, Carl Alsop, Tommy McGovern and Tom Hildreth. This in fact was the case. Playing for 3rd and 4th spot was Tom Hildreth and Tommy McGovern it was an exciting and aggressive game and Tommy McGovern of the Falkirk Cannons came out victorious with a score of 56 - 54, just 2 points in it. The final.... well that was something special, the lead changed hands 7 times Carl Alsop from the York Rock-It-Ball Club and Scott McLellan again from Falkirk Cannons had em standing, shouting, screaming, crying from start to end and our inaugural World Champion is..... Carl Alsop From the York Rock-It-Ball Club beating Scott McLellan 48 - 45 commiserations go out to Scott but Im sure he will be knocking on the door and snapping at Carl's heals next year.
World Rankings after the V2 World on Sunday 22nd August 2010
Carl Alsop
Scott McLellan
Tommy McGovern
Tom Hildreth
Neil Young
David Harker
Paul Hildreth
Callum Watt
Dan Raper
Matty Carr
Scores
Pool 1 Prelims
Alsop 73 v 41 Harker
Carr 37 v 73 P Hildreth
McGovern 76 v 36 Carr
P Hildreth 57 v 64 Alsop
P Hildreth 57 v 64 Harker
McGovern 56 v 71 Alsop
Alsop 68 v 52 Carr
Harker 31 v 66 McGovern
McGovern 91 v 82 P Hildreth
Carr 40 v 60 Harker
Pool 2 Prelims
T Hildreth 32 v 24 Watt
Young 47 v 42 Raper
Young 30 v 55 McLellan
Raper 31 v 61 T Hildreth
Raper 27 v 34 Watt
McLellan 46 v 40 Hildreth
T Hildreth 49 v 39 Young
Watt 24 v 39 McLellan
McLellan 56 v 37 Raper
Young 45 v Watt 36
Finals
1st and 2nd Alsop 48 v 45 McLellan
3rd and 4th Hildreth T 54 v 56 McGovern
5th and 6th Harker 43 v 55 Young
7th and 8th Hilreth P 49 v 42 Watt
9th and 10th Carr 46 v 66 Raper
More news, results and photo's will follow when the official press release is posted.
The IRIBF is pleased to announce that we have installed Mr Neil Chamisa as the CEO of the newly form Zimbabwe Rock-It-Ball Association. Neil 28 and living in Harare in Zimbabwe has a wealth of knowledge of sports administration and is currently on the board of the World Volleyball and Beach Volleyball Federation, I'm sure that we would all like to welcome Neil to the Rock-It-Ball Band of Brothers and wish him well in developing the sport in Zimbabwe. This is another bit of history being made, the first of what we hope will be many NGB's out of the African Nations ho knows we may have representatives of Zimbabwe competing in the World Championships next year.
Our sport grows on a day to day basis, remember "work hard, play hard and compete like there is no tomorrow"
Here is the opportunity to win a limited edition Rock-It, all you have to do is correctly predict who will come 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the V2 World Cup and you will be placed in the draw. The players above are vying to be crowned World Champion and the competition will be hot on the 22nd August at Thornton le Dale Squash Club once the competition has concluded any player can break into the world rankings by challenging one of the players to a match. However you must start with one of the bottom 3. If you win you take their spot and everyone moves down one, if you loose you can try again another time.
To enter the competition for the limited edition Rock-it email competition@iribf.org the competition will close at midnight on the 21st August 2010 and is restricted to one entry per person.
The IRIBF V2 World Cup will take place on Sunday 22nd August at Thornton Le Dale Squash Club commencing at 10:00am the finals will start at 1:20pm.
The players that are to compete for this prestigious trophy are:
Matty Carr, Tom Hildreth, Carl Alsop, Paul Hildreth, Jonathon Cooper, Callum Watt, Scott McLellan, Tommy McGovern, Dan Raper and Neil Young. Who do you think will win and can you predict the top 3 and the whole top 10 places, so come on tell me who you think it will be those who get the correct answer will go into a draw to win a new Rock-It. email me on craig@iribf.org
Project Coach 20-50 is now up and running and the very first coaches have been qualified up in Falkirk, we now need to get more people involved and the IRIBF are looking for people willing to step up to the plate.
20-50 is a project that has been initiated to increase the numbers of both people qualified as Rock-It-Ball coaches and clubs/teams.
Historically we have qualified teachers and although this has created an awareness of our sport across the UK it has not provided us with exit routes for the kids that have tried the sport in schools.
So.... 20-50 is here to address that issue we are going to qualify 20 coaches in 50 area's UK wide free of charge. The stipulation for inclusion in 20-50 is that the people that we qualify then go on to set up their own clubs and liaise with local schools that may have already tried the sport but the pupils have had no way of taking the sport further.
So if you are in an area that wants to get people qualified please contact the IRIBF by email craig@iribf.org or by phone 07809 716423
News in from Dubai
15 Teachers from UAE State schools have been qualified to level 1 and more teachers are to follow suit this is amzing news for our sport and proof that we are growing on a day to day basis .... more news to follow.
The V2 World Cup will take place on Sunday 22nd August 2010 from 10:00am - 4:00pm at the Thornton le Dale Squash courts this will be an invite only event and players that are to be invited will be contacted soon. We hope that the event will be well attended by spectators to support their favourite players, for further details contact Craig Buttery on craig@iribf.org or 07809 716423
New Rock-It-Ball V Court to be launched soon
The IRIBF will be attending Leisure Industry Week and will have a stand over all 3 days why not visit us and see what else is happening in the Sports and Leisure Industry.
June 29th 2010
The first 20-50 Coaches have been qualified in Falkirk
May 3rd 2010
June 2007. The final of the inaugural Rock-It-Ball World Cup. England are leading Scotland by 15 points at the beginning of the final quarter. The Scots gradually catch up but with 120 seconds to go England are still hanging on – but then in the final seconds Scotland draw level and take the lead right at the death to snatch the World Cup from the grasp of tournament favourites England.
Almost three years on and the thought hurts as much as ever, only slightly assuaged by the England Youth team’s victory in the Youth World Cup in 2008, but with the first ever England-Scotland friendly we have the chance to start to heal the wound.
Since that demoralising defeat the English Rock-It-Ball Association has established a successful national program which resulted in the England Youth Squad’s World Cup victory and which is now preparing for the Youth and Senior World Cup tournaments in 2011 – however recently the senior squad’s attention has been focussed on meeting the auld enemy again and even though only Tom Hildreth and Carl Alsop from the original World Cup squad made it into the team there was no doubting the motivation!
Although not taking anything for granted the England team were confident and ready for a tough battle. From the whistle the English side tore into the Scots and the hard work which has been put in by the England squad paid off handsomely as they totally outclassed the Scots in every department – teamwork, communication, tactics, blocking and shooting. At the first break England had overwhelmed their opponents and went in 64-19 ahead. The Scots were fighting hard and blocking well but England maintained the pressure and went into half time having built up a comfortable lead of 81 points. They continued to overwhelm the Scots and finished the match at 233-116, smashing the World Record for the highest score in a match in the process.
The teams had a break before the next game which allowed the shell-shocked Scots to re-evaluate their tactics – but their efforts were in vain. England carried on where they left off and went into the first break of the second game leading 71-28. The English team totally dominated the match with an awesome power play leaving the Scots not knowing which way to turn as the English tactics and teamwork allowed them to record another record-breaking score as they continued to build their lead and again smashed the record they’d just set to win the second match 254-118 and lead the series 2-0.
The final game was fast and furious as the Scots fought hard to finish on a high – and indeed they managed to both reduce England’s total and take more points off them, however it wasn’t enough and England won the final match 243-130 to take the series 3-0.
IRIBF Commissioner Craig Buttery was delighted with the matches: “It is fantastic to have had the first friendly international. We hope that the next time these two sides meet it will be in the Home Nations Championships and then in the World Cup. Those games today were a fantastic spectacle and I know the Scots will be much harder to beat next time, but all credit to England for the work they have put in with their coach Paul Reed, for that was an absolutely outstanding display!”
Team Roster England
Coach: Paul Reed, Tom Hildreth (c) - Raptors, Matthew Carr – Tees Valley, Neil Young – Tees Valley, David Harker – Tees Valley,
Carl Alsop – Raptors, Emily Wilson – Tees Valley, Jonathon Cooper – Easi, Graeme Wood – Tees Valley, Callum Watt – ex Easi, now UCLAN, Alex Nottage – Raptors
Team Roster Scotland To follow
April 16th 2010
On Sunday 2nd May England will host Scotland for the first ever Home International game. The venue for the fixture is Howe Bridge Sports Centre, Eckersley Fold Lane, Atherton Manchester M46 0PJ. The match will be a 3 game series and will commence with the first game at 1pm. Expectations are of a hard fought match with England looking to take the scalp of the reigning World Champions.
During the series their will be an opportunity for people to try the new Version of V2 so make sure you bring some sports clothing so that you can have a go.
Entry for spectators is free and we welcome as many spectators to the game as possible we expect the day to finish around 4:00pm
April 15th 2010
Hall of Fame
The Rock-It-Ball Hall of Fame is the highest award that can be bestowed in Rock-It-Ball. Two members of the IRIBF are to be inducted in 2008, 2010 and 2012 after which it is intended that the award will be made on an annual basis.
The award is intended to honour those people who have made an ongoing, consistent and outstanding contribution to the development of Rock-It-Ball. The process goes through two stages: nominations are received by IRIBF members. Anyone receiving three nominations then progresses to consideration by committee, however even if only one person makes it to committee stage this is no guarantee of induction as the committee has to agree that the contribution is outstanding and consistent enough to warrant the inclusion.
This year three people received the required 3 nominations to proceed to committee stage. Unusually the committee felt unable to differentiate between the three outstanding nominees and therefore voted to treat the 2010 awards as ‘exceptional circumstances’, voting to induct all three nominees.
Carl Alsop
Since first being introduced to the sport Carl's effort has been unstinting, supportive and enthusiastic. He has been instrumental in the development of Rock-It-Ball in the Air Cadet organisation, setting up two teams for participation in the national league and organising the first Air Cadets tournament, working hard to propagate the sport through other squadrons. On top of this he has established another successful club (York) which features teams in the senior league and junior pairs league. As well as this Carl works as part of ERIBA, is an international player, and has also taken on the role of International Development Manager for the IRIBF. Carl is also a key figure in the organisation of the ENRL Yorkshire and Humber region and the v3 tournaments.
As with everyone else Carl works as a volunteer alongside his day job but the amount of time and effort he puts in is second to none and has been consistent from the moment he was introduced to the sport.
Ian Crosby
Since first seeing Rock-It-Ball Ian has been a great servant to the sport. In his role as CEO of the England Rock-It-Ball Association Ian has done sterling work to move the Association forward and to grow the sport of Rock-It-Ball. He has been a dedicated and consistent servant of the sport, working to promote the sport on both a local and national level. He has some very innovative ideas and is working very hard to increase the profile of the sport in the North West and across the country. He has been a great ambassador for Rock-It-Ball and continues to put in an immense effort alongside his day job
Graeme Wood
Graeme has been a dedicated and faithful friend of Rock-It-Ball from the moment he got involved.
He became part of the England program and an important part of the IRIBF, heading up the coaching and umpiring side of the sport.
Alongside this, as part of his role as a teacher, he did a lot of unnoticed work to spread and establish Rock-It-Ball in his local area. More recently, in his new role, he has been making great efforts to help spread Rock-It-Ball through the Extended Services provision with a view to it spreading nationwide.
Graeme's work is ongoing, consistent and effective. What is most noticeable is that he quietly gets on with the job of promoting the sport of Rock-It-Ball without any shouting about it. His work is often unseen but no less important or effective.