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From St James Park to the Euros: Tracking Exeter City Academy Players on the International Stage

As Europe’s biggest stars regroup for international duty, national team rosters for Euro 2024 are filled with familiar names - few of which trace their beginnings to the lower tiers of English football.

Exeter City’s academy may not make headlines, but its graduates are making tournament squads. And while attention builds toward summer fixtures and early Champions League predictions on many of the most popular and secure betting platforms, another narrative deserves recognition: players who started at St James Park and are now representing their countries on the international...

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Govinda HITZ back and wins national award

Before discovering HITZ, sport was the last thing on Govinda Kay’s mind – but now the rugby-mad teenager is reaching for the stars after collecting the Best Rugby Performer Award supported by Premiership Rugby.

Govinda, who found the programme through Exeter Chiefs, picked up the gong at the HITZ Awards Ceremony, hosted at Barclays HQ in Canary Wharf.

The multi award-winning HITZ programme uses rugby to increase young people's resilience, self-reliance and confidence and gives them the skills to get back into education, apprenticeships and employment. HITZ is run in...

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Chiefs side to face Saracens

Authored by Mark Stevens
Posted: Thu, 02/04/2016 - 12:44pm

Rob Hunter insists Exeter Chiefs are fully focused on the task in hand as they prepare to welcome Aviva Premiership leaders Saracens to Sandy Park today (Sunday at 1pm).

With just two points separating last season’s champions and the Chiefs at the summit of the table, the stakes are certainly high for both clubs as they reach the halfway point of the domestic season.

Buoyed by their bonus point victory at Worcester Warriors last time out, the Devon club will not only be looking to build on that success, but at the same time inflict a blow of their own on the Londoners, who...

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Nowell starts for England against Scotland

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 02/04/2016 - 11:29am

Exeter Chiefs star Jack Nowell has been named in Eddie Jones’ England squad to face Scotland in their RBS 6 Nations opener at Murrayfield (4.50 pm) on Saturday.

Jones has has also chosen Owen Farrell at inside centre while Danny Care starts at scrum-half.

Joe Marler is named at loosehead prop with George Kruis partnering Joe Launchbury in the second row.

Courtney Lawes is fit enough to be named among the replacements which include three debutants – Jack Clifford, Paul Hill and Ollie Devoto.

Harlequins' Chris Robshaw starts at blind-side flanker, James...

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Exeter 6-a-Side Football League results

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 02/03/2016 - 10:48pm

Results of the Football Mundial Exeter 6-a-Side Football League at Isca Academy on Monday 1 February:

Premier League:

Moves Like Agger 0 Huge Tackle 8, Allsorts 1 Shocking Six 1, Beacon Heath 2 Rosebank Rattlensnakes 0, Baines on Toast 0 De Jong Mustard 1.

Championship:

Idiots Utd 2 Bowling Green 1, Balls Deep 2 Gumbo FC 1, Broadoak 2 Tekkerslovakia 1, Exeter Dance Academy 1 Exeter Gently 1.

To join the league contact Tom McDonough on 01937 841 440 or email info@footballmundial.com

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Cowan-Dickie delighted to be back in Chiefs mix

Luke Cowan-Dickie admitted he was delighted to mark his return to competitive action with victory over Worcester Warriors in the Aviva Premiership.

Sidelined since November with a broken thumb sustained in the European Champions Cup clash with the Ospreys, the young Cornishman was thrown straight back into the deep end at Sixways.

Initially pencilled in to start the game on the bench, illness to club captain and fellow hooker Jack Yeandle meant Cowan-Dickie was thrust right into the action on his return.

"It was a good game to get back involved with," he said. "I...

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Exeter School alumnus enters record books

1995 Exeter School leaver Ian Williams has entered the record books as the first skipper to win sailing's World Match Racing Tour title six times.

The former Senior Prefect and Captain of Hockey, and GAC Pindar sailor previously won the title in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2015, beating his own record when he won the title for the fifth time last year.

Ian won the Final of the Monsoon Cup on Saturday 30 January, and extended his record as the most successful match racing skipper in the history of the World Match Racing Tour.

The victory was won after an exciting...

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Double LTA tennis win for Exeter club

Exeter Golf and Country Club is celebrating a double win at the Devon LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) Awards.

Head of Rackets, James Temple was awarded 'Young Tennis Coach of the Year', with trainee coach Tom Slack winning 'Volunteer of the Year'. Exeter Golf and Country Club was a finalist for the prestigious 'Club of the Year'.

James has worked as a tennis coach since the age of 16. He stared coaching in Wiltshire before moving to Devon, working at Exeter Tennis Centre, Victoria Park and Exwick Tennis Club before joining Exeter Golf and Country Club in 2011.

Devon...

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Colin Jackson confirmed for Devon Sports Awards

Celebrated athlete and popular broadcaster, Colin Jackson CBE, has been confirmed as the guest speaker at this year’s Devon Sports Awards.

Colin is regarded as one of the greatest athletes in the history of British Athletics, ranking in the top ten hurdlers in the world for two decades and retaining the 110m record for thirteen years. Since retiring in 2002, Colin has become a popular broadcaster, particularly as part of the BBC Athletics team. Colin was also a finalist in Strictly Come Dancing in 2005.

Chairman of the Exeter Foundation, Tony Rowe OBE, said: “We’re...

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Exeter City active on deadline day

Striker Tom Nichols departs for an undisclosed fee, while popular forward David Wheeler signs new deal.

EXETER CITY can confirm that striker Tom Nichols has completed a deadline day transfer to Peterborough United. Tom heads to the ABAX Stadium for an undisclosed fee.

Read the full club statement regararding Nichols here http://bit.ly/1WY9Xdx

The Grecians also confirm that fan favourite forward David Wheeler has signed an extended contract with the club. One of the Grecians’ key performers so far this season, David has been at the club since August 2013, and...

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Aussie addition pleases Baxter

Authored by Mark Stevens
Posted: Mon, 02/01/2016 - 12:06pm

Rob Baxter admits he sees a lot of similarities in new signing Dave Dennis to that of former Exeter Chiefs skipper Dean Mumm.

It was back in 2012 that Baxter brought Australian international Mumm to Sandy Park from Super Rugby outfit NSW Waratahs.

Three years later and Mumm departed Sandy Park as somewhat of a club legend, having made quite an impression during his time in Devon with the Chiefs.

Now back in Sydney, Exeter’s former talisman - who helped lift the LV= Cup back in 2014 - has played his part in helping to persuade 30-year-old Dennis to follow a similar...

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