WORCESTER WOLVES

             
   

 

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League Record Honours Venue Facilities History Roster Competition Record
             

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LEAGUE RECORD:
  B.B.L. 2006-2008 P.  69 W.  18 L. 51   8th, 2008
  E.B.L. 1: 2004-2006 P.  48 W.  30 L. 18   4th place, 2005
NBL Div. 1/E.B.L. 2: 2001-2004 P.  58 W.  31 L. 27   Runners up, 2004
NBL 3: 2000-2001 P.  22 W.  18 L.   3 N.R.  1 Runners up, 2001
HONOURS:
National Trophy Winners 2006
EBL Div. 2 Runners-up: 2004
EBL Div. 2 Championship Winners: 2004
Patron's Cup Winners: 2004
NBL Div. 3 Runners-up: 2001.

 

VENUE:

UNIVERSITY of WORCESTER., Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ     01905-655089

From M5 Junction 7, take the A44 towards Worcester. 

At the first roundabout, turn left onto the Southern Link Road and follow signposts towards Leominster.  This will take you straight on at the next two roundabouts. 

At the third roundabout, turn right onto the A449 towards Worcester (West), over a bridge to another roundabout.  Take the second exit, to the left of the petrol station, into Malvern Road. 

Follow this road for about a mile to a T-junction (with traffic lights).  Turn right, then first left onto Henwick Road.  After three-quarters of a mile, turn left onto the campus, just before the junction with the A443, Hylton Road. 

The sports centre is the large building beyond the rugby pitch and the entrance is at the left-hand end of the building.  There is a large car park on your right, just before you reach the sports centre.

FACILITIES:

Sports hall with good wooden floor, opened in July 2000.

Tiered seating, tuck shop, big crowds!

 

HISTORY:

An earlier club, Worcester City Chiefs, were admitted to NBL Division 2 in 1994. In 1996, however, they moved to Solihull, and were promoted in 1997. Solihull themselves merged with Wolverhampton Adante in 1998, but withdrew in '99.

A new club, Worcester Wolves, was formed in May 2000 by Roger Clarke and Mick Donovan with its home venue at the new £2.5m ‘state of the art’ sports centre at University College Worcester. They were admitted into the new NBL Division 3 for September 2000, and finished as runners-up (to Bristol) in their first season.

Initially placed in the regionalised Division 2 in the "clean sheet reorganisation" of 2001, they actually played the first game of the season in that division before being elevated (ahead of Bristol) into Division One when Doncaster withdrew.

The excellent facilities and organisation which earned them that promotion continue to stand them in good stead, as they became firmly established in what has now been renamed EBL Division 2, and won promotion to EBL1 following an excellent campaign in 2003-4.

Two good seasons in EBL1 followed, with 4th and 5th placed finishes, and National Trophy triumph in 2006, and, just six years after joining the EBL, Worcester made a (late) decision  to move into BBL. 

 

ALL-TIME COMPETITION RECORD

SEASON LEAGUE             CUP CHAMPS. TROPHY PATRON'S SHIELD NAME
  Div. Pos. / P. W. NR L.            
2000-01 NBL 3 2 / 12 22 18 1 3 x   x x   Worcester Wolves
2001-02 NBL 1 9 / 12 22 7   15 x x 3rd Pool x x Worcester Wolves
2002-03 NBL 1 7 /  9 16 6   10 x   1/4 Final x x Worcester Wolves
2003-04 EBL2 2 /11 20 18   2 2nd Round Winners x Winners x Worcester Wolves
2004-05 EBL1 4 /12 22 13   9 Semi Final Semi Final Semi Final x x Worcester Wolves
2005-06 EBL1 5 /12 26 17   9 Semi Final 1/4 Final Winners x x Worcester Wolves
2006-07 BBL 10 /10 36 4   32 1st Round x 2nd Pool x x Worcester Wolves
2007-08 BBL 8 /12 33 14   19 1st Round 1/4 Final Semi Final x x Worcester Wolves
2008-09 BBL 8 /12               x x Worcester Wolves
                         

 

2008-9 Roster:

Names in bold have signed or re-signed for new season.

New signings are in green.

Names in red have departed.

 

Player

 

Height

 

Steve ARCHER

Guard

5’ 10”

 University of Worcester. From Wolves II, 2007
  Justin BROWN Centre 7' 0" Australian/British. University of Connecticut Huskies. Udine (Italy), ALBA Berlin (Germany). Perth and Brisbane (Australia).
  Jamaal CATERINA Small Forward 6' 6" USA. Southern Maine.
  Damian COPE Forward 6' 6" From Derby U-18. University of Worcester
  Harry DISY Forward 6' 7" French. Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. From Bourg Basket (French ProB Champions)
  Will FUNN Guard 6' 2" Portland State. Experience in ABA, IBL and CIBACOPA (Mexico)
  Skouson HARKER © Forward 6' 8" Ex-Bullets' player/coach. Montana State University – Billings (NCAA2). Appointed July 2007.
  Liam JOHNSON Guard 6' 0" University of Worcester
  Tommy JOHNSON Guard 6' 5" American/British. Texas Wesleyan University. Basket Groot Leuven and Royal Atomia Brussels (Belgium); Keflavik ( Iceland)
  Micheal OBI Guard/Forward 6' 6" University of Worcester
  Roy OWEN Guard 6' 2" University of Worcester
 

Ben POTTS

Forward

6’ 4”

Wales International. 
Jordan RANKLIN

Forward

6’ 6”

 University of Worcester. Also Wolves II, 2008
  Andrew WALLACE Shooting guard 6' 3" U-18 England International. From Dijon, France.

Simon STEWART

Forward

6’ 6”

 Uni. of Worcester. From Wolves II, 2007. To Wolves II, 2008
  Douaine ANDERSON 6' 5" Ex-Bullets' Junior. Franklin Pierce College, 2002-5. Bullets, '05-6. From BCU Wolverhampton, Nov 07. Released, 2008.
Colin CHIVERTON Returned, Nov. 2007, after a year away. Retired, 2008.
Colin DOCKRELL Forward 6' 8" English. From Peurtollano, Spain, 2007. Released, 2008.
Michael GAYLE Point Guard 6' 0" England U-16 & U-18. Elizabeth Forward High School, USA. From Teesside Mohawks, 2006. To Birmingham Athletics?, 2008
Oliver TURNER Small Forward

6’ 6”

 Uni. of Worcester. From Wolves II, 2007. To Birmingham Athletics?, 2008
Ivan BROSKO Forward 6' 9" Slovakian. From Mazarron Basket, Spain. Three seasons in Austria, one in Switzerland. To France, 2008
Shaun DURANT Forward 6' 8" Lipscomb University,NCAA1. Former Towers and Hackney youth player.
Chuck EVANS Point Guard 5' 11" American/German. Mississippi State. Also ALBA Berlin, CSKA Moscow, TBB Trier and Mitteldeutscher. To Cheshire, 2008
  James LIFE Guard 6' 5" USA - UMASS Minutemen. Joined early Nov. 07. To Puerto Rico, 2008
  Anthony PAEZ Small Forward 6' 6" USA - Stephen F. Austin (NCAA D1). AaB Basket, Denmark, 2006-7. Leading scorer in Danish Basketliga. To Spain, 2008

 

 

 

 

 
  Skouson HARKER Player/coach 6' 8" Ex-Bullets' player/coach. Appointed July 2007. Two year contract, 2008.
  Rob CRUMP Assistant Manager    

 

  

 

 

 

 

WORCESTER WOLVES II
LEAGUE RECORD:
  E.B.L. 3: 2004-2008 P. 72 W. 30 L. 42   5th, EBL3 West, 2005
  E.B.L. 4: 2008- P. W. L.    
HONOURS:
  EBL Shield Final: 2008  

 

Following the promotion of Worcester Wolves to EBL Division 1, a Second Team was entered into Division 3 (West), in 2004. Played in EBL3 Midlands in 2005-6., and South from 2006-8.

Retained Division 3 (South) status when EBL4 introduced in 2006.

Enjoyed a good run to the final of the EBL Shield in 2007-8, but could not replicate that form in the league, finishing in last place in the South, and dropping into Division 4.

 

2008-9 Roster:

Names in bold have signed or re-signed for new season.

New signings are in green.

Names in red have departed.

 

Player

Position

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