Category: News

Storm Bristol Basketball Founder Nominated to Hall of Fame

Bristol Storm founder Steve Brocklehurst has been nominated into the Bristol City Hall of Fame for Exceptional Contribution.

It has been fifteen years since the club started on the Netham field with a portable basket, the growth and achievements have been extraordinary for the Storm club, regular reaching much further than you would expect but the desire and drive of everyone involved in the club saw it, it’s teams and the individuals achieve some amazing things.

For the full write up on Steve follow this link and scroll down to the Ss!!

WEBBA Women’s Invitational Cup

It was the first WEBBA Women’s Invitational Final, but it was the fourth time that Braves and FireStorm would be facing off against each other.

The game started slowly for both teams, I guess big match nerves, and half-time could not have come soon enough.  The second half though was a different game and the energy that FireStorm hit the floor with was a game changer, and FireStorm never really looked like losing the game or momentum whatever Braves tried to throw at them.

Junior Girl’s Programme

Our girl’s programme has been established for over a decade and offers regular sessions and competition for girls of all ages (10 through to 18).

The programme has numerous coaches overseen by Storm Head Coach Steve Brocklehurst.  Coaches include former juniors Pip Armitage, Whitney Thompson and Kimberley Kheing, and we look to confirm other coaches in the near future.

Recruitment for the 2018/19 season has started now and if you are interested then please do not hesitate in getting in touch, everyone is welcome.

 

 

Estella Setting Standards

 

As the Bristol This Girl campaign goes from strength to strength, improving the access to sport and creating more options for women and girls, Storm’s Estella Maloney was selected to become one of the projects ambassadors.

Estella and the team of ambassadors will be seen touring the city with pop-up stands to increase the awareness of what is on offer for women and girls out there.

We have long been a big supporter of This Girl Can and we will continue to offer open sessions for all women and girls, whether you want to just role the ball out and have a laugh with your friends or play as competitively as you can we will do our best to cater for everyone.

  

Storming to the title

They did it.

After a long season the FireStorm team claimed the WEBBA League title with the only blip on the season an out of character defeat away to Swindon on a wet and windy Monday night.

The team finished the season with a 17 – 1 record, but very importantly for Coach also the best defensive record in the league.

‘We knew if we ran at teams for forty minutes we would have a good chance of winning, but we didnt want to just outscore people, we wanted to stop people from scoring and that mentality will definitely help the players grow when they move onto the next level, it is an old saying offence wins games but defence wins championships and our defence went a long way to securing the title for us.’ – Coach Brock

Having won the league title, FireStorm move onto the WEBBA Women’s Invitational Cup next month with the pool games at UWE, and then the Final at WISE in May.