England Touch Association - Annual Report 2014 England Touch Association - Annual Report 2014

ETA Annual Report HIGH PERFORMANCE (Review) The elite success experienced by England Touch in 2013, emphatically winning the Open's, Senior's and Overall Championship titles at Home Nations in Dublin, was a great platform from which we would launch our 2014 European Touch Championships and the 2015 Touch World Cup campaigns. European Touch Championships At the beginning of the 2014 European Touch Championships campaign in September 2013, the HP Team’s goals were to: win the Opens points title at Euros; win the Overall points title at Euros; and to develop our elite player pool and build our elite teams with the aim to medal at the Touch World Cup in 2015 in one or more divisions. While the last of these three goals is still in progress, the first two goals were successfully achieved at Euros in a professional manner whilst maintaining the highest levels of sportsmanship. A survey of the figures below gives both an indication of the hard work that has gone into the 2014 European Touch Championships campaign (by players and staff alike), as well as the extent of success experienced by the England Touch team that ventured to Swansea University during the first week of August in 2014: Time:    287 days (41 weeks) = campaign duration from announcement of squads in October 2013 to tournament commencement 20,000 hours (in excess of) training by all touring players (circa 134 hours per player, calculated as follows: 3 x 1 hour fitness sessions a

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