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Reading Rockets Basketball Club is thrilled to announce we have applied to join the fully professional British Basketball League (BBL). The club is hoping to be accepted and participate in next season’s 2022/23 BBL season.🚀
#RocketsAreGo
#BBL
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Rockets now has 20 teams training every week on a full player pathway from U10s to Senior Men and Women.
Taken 22 years to get there.....now the work begins.
Academies, Uni links and 150 hours a week of community Coaching.
A massive mini ballers programme and a partridge in..
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Our new home kit for the 2020-2021 season🚀
What do you think? 🤔
#NewThreads
#RocketsAreGo
#BritishBasketball
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🗣 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐀𝐂𝐇 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓
We are excited to announce that Dan Pearson will be the new Head Coach of the Division 1 men's team and the Academy Director!
Rocketeers please give Dan a warm welcome! 🚀
📄 Read the full story here:
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NEW SIGNING | Reading Rockets have re-signed American forward AJ Carr for the 2019-2020 season. The 24-year-old, who originally hails from Fairfax, Virginia, becomes the eighth signing.
Great to have AJ back with the Rockets!
💻
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What a picture. So many words will never describe this well enough 🙏🏻
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Reading Rockets appoint Alan Keane as Head Coach
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We are delighted to announce that
@DecathlonUK
Reading have become our new official partners! We look forward to what we can achieve together!
#RocketsAreGo
#RocketsPartners
#Decathlon
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Sorry to have to say goodbye today to one of favourite players here in Reading as AJ leaves us to go home and get his badly broken hand repaired.
Au revoir to our friend.
And Thank you!
Wishing you a speedy recovery and safe travels back to family.
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Our new signing, O’Showen Williams, with his thoughts about playing basketball in England and competing for the Rockets next season🚀
#RocketsAreGo
#OShowenIsARocket
@Oshowen_10
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We are pleased to announce the return of Samit Nuruzade for a second spell as Head Coach!
More information here-
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South Asian Heritage Month
@itvmeridian
caught up with our Sikh-sharpshooter
@jazbains
about his basketball journey and breaking down the stigma "Asians don't play basketball"🏀
📄 Full Story here:
#SouthAsianHeritage
@SAHM_UK
@bballengland
@NBLengland
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Mental Health Awareness Week - Day 5
We caught up with Latrell Maitland (
@LatrellMaitland
) about his past year and how he has dealt with his mental health
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
[1/2]
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We have always been proud of our multicultural city and the people that share it with us. Today is a sad day and we share thoughts with all people affected by events today.
#Reading
#ForburyGardens
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@BBCSport
thank you for 30 years of athletics, snooker, darts, cross country, rowing, sailing and football coverage. They have had a good leg up now, so how about some other sports on mainstream TV??
Maybe something a little more urban and globally relevant....thank you.
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🗣Club Announcement
It is with great disappointment that Head Coach Alan Keane will be leaving the Rockets.
We would like to say a massive thank you to Alan for all his work over the years! He will be missed🚀
Full Story here:
#ThankYouAlan
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Rockets (NBL 1) and Scorchers (BBL) partner up to create more performance pathway opportunities for young players.
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Player news! Reading Rockets adds American flair to senior men's squad with
@ACTwoFive
signing -
#basketball
#rdgsport
#rdgnews
🚀🏀🇺🇸
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It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce the untimely and tragic death of one of our former Under 16 players, Sean Norbert Anyanwu. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of Sean’s mourning family and friends at this horrific time. Rest in Peace, Sean x
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New season, new venue! 👀
Rivermead has served us well, but we are now moving to Loddon Valley Leisure for the 2022/23 season!
We have many roles needing to be filled to make this an excellent experience for all involved.
Interested? Email Ben.Fisher
@readingrockets
.co.uk
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ICYMI | We unveiled our second signing of the summer with new forward
@MatchBurnham
out of
@CCSaints
!
Match had a message for all the Rockets supporters ahead of his arrival!
#letsgorockets
#gosaints
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Reis is a Rocket 🚀
Reis joins us after a successful season with the Loughbourgh Riders, where he averaged 14.9 PPG, 4.3 APG, 8.1 RPG.
Join us in giving Reis a warm welcome back to the Rockets Community!
#WelcomeReis
#RocketsAreGo
@Reis_Pinnock
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A huge THANK YOU from all the Rockets family to our owners Gary and Helen Johnson. 50 Years together!
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🥁 Drum roll please 🥁 We have some player news!
Welcome to Reading Rockets, Ronan O'Sullivan!
#basketball
#rdguk
#rdgsport
🏀🚀
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Congratulations to our very own Ben Fisher for been named
@bballengland
Dave Fisher Children’s Coach of the Year! 🎉
This is a fantastic achievement and we are extremely proud! Join us in celebrating Ben’s award with him!
#RocketsAreGo
#BritishBasketball
@BenFisher84
It is now time to reveal the 'Dave Fisher Children's Coach of the Year'
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Check out our website for all the news and views from our latest signing,
@adrian4sully
. Exciting times! 🏀🚀⛹️♂️
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We want to wish our Head Coach
@manuel_pg83
and his new wife Lorena all the best on their special day!
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𝘾𝙊𝙇𝙇𝙀𝙂𝙀 𝙎𝙄𝙂𝙉𝙄𝙉𝙂
Latrell Maitland (
@LatrellMaitland
) commits to John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas! He will suit up for the
@JBUmbb
Golden Eagles next year!
📄 Full story here:
#RocketToCollege
#OnwardSoar
#GoJBU
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NEW SIGNING | The Rockets have signed their second player for the 19-20 season with American Match Burnham. Burnham provides some much-needed height in the front court with the 6’8 forward also recently completing his college career in the United States
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Just in case you missed it... On of our coaches Ben Fishers won
@bballengland
Dave Fisher Children's Coach of the Year!
Join us in celebrating this award with Ben!
#CongratsBen
#RocketsAreGo
@BenFisher84
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Sydney Donaldson top scored with 26, Trae Pemberton 23 and Adrian O’Sullivan 18.
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The big men upfront
@DCWindsor
and
@ACTwoFive
had a big game for The Rockets against
@AbbeyBasketball
.
What did you think of the performance at 'The Mead'? Did you catch the live stream?
#letsgorockets
#letsgo
@CoachKeane14
@SURamsHoops
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Congratulations to The Stream Team 👏
Outstanding work from so many people this year to make sure our fans can still watch the games! Thank you all for the hours of dedication you have put in to make this a reality!
We look forward to what next year brings👀
#TheStreamTeam
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𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆
Congratulations Sam Grant (
@_SamGrant11
) on committing to The Florida Institute of Technology next year. We are excited to see him in the
@FloridaTechMBB
uniform next year!
#RocketToCollege
#BritishBasketball
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And a special mention for tonight’s Player-of-the-game!....Nick Richards
@fohnickblurr
with 30 points and 8 rebounds and 3 steals!
Thanks to
@NandosUK
for sponsoring the player of the game!
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Final congratulations to Sam Grant for his selection to the ‘All tournament team’ 2019.
#keeplearning
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🥉🥉🥉
Massive congratulations to our U18 women for securing a 74-66 win over Solent Kestrels, placing them third in the whole country🥳👏
#RocketsAreGo
#BritishBasketball
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“By order of the Peaky Blinders today is our last game of the year!”
Merry Christmas to you all!
Words from
@CoachKeane14
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For those of you feeling that sport has lost its innocence.....just watch our U16s boys after their last game at their tournament in London.
@JmaRockets
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The second time in 2 days we have finished with silver and the second time in 2 days we have felt very proud of the spirit and endeavour of our teams.
Congratulations to
@SolentKestrels
on their win, and well done to all our Rockets players, Coaches and staff on their weekend.
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What a win!!! Ladies are into the National Final!!
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PLAYER ANNOUNCEMENT | Reading Rockets have completed their first signing ahead of the 19-20 season with American guard Nicholas Richards. The 6’4 24-year-old joins the Reading team having completed four years in college in the United States.
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A well deserved winner of the biggest award at the Sports Awards Fran Kirby!
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Nice gesture by Coach
@blaiverson
.
Manchester down to 4 players in the last 40 seconds so asks his player not to go and attack.
@JmaRockets
#morethanagame
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The man in the middle is Jean Charles Lamotte. A friend for over 15 years. The soul of the Cherbourg tournament and simply ‘the difference’ in sport.
Totally dedicated to other people’s experiences. Selfless, generous and fantastic.
MERCI Jean Charles. Merci.
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Rockets celebrate 5 teams reaching the last four of the cup! Great continued work by all Coaches and players and parents!
U16 Boys, u18 boys and girls, D1 Men and Women!
Merry Christmas!!
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Final score Rockets with a big road win! 105-112!
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Amazing game!!!
Bristol Flyers 52 - Reading Rockets 71
Congratulations, girls, you deserve this victory!!!!
#letsgorockets
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Reading Rockets Under 12 Boys and Reading FC academy goalkeepers (9-12 years old) enjoyed a “crossover” session last night with the basketball players working on their goalkeeping skills and the footballers learning some basketball skills before playing a match. Great fun!!
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Unfortunately today was not our day for the U18s girls today. An unbelievable game of basketball - girls you did the rockets family proud! Congratulations to
@IpswichBball
.
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And don’t forget.....both ladies and u18 girls and the u18 boys are in the National Cup final coming soon!!
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From every player, in every team, of every year, forever.
We at Reading Rockets stand united to speak out against racism. It’s time for change.
#blacklivesmatter
#blackouttuesday
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What an amazing game!! Our u18 girls fight their way into the National Cup final!!!
Notts Wildcats are an absolute credit to the game and played their hearts out too. Well done ladies on both teams!
@NottmWildcats
@JmaRockets
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Time for another player announcement? We think so! Welcome to the Rockets family, Trae Pemberton (
@TraeP30
)! Read all about it 👉- 🚀🏀
#letsgorockets
#basketball
#rdguk
#sport
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Proud moment alert!
@isaac_round
receives his playing vest ahead of the
@gbbasketball
U18 Euros! We wish him and the team all the very best!
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Huge congratulations to
@rocketsreading
Under 16s who were today crowned Premier Central League Champions! Well done to Coaches Goodyear and Palmer and the team!
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We come out on top in an absolute thriller, see you next week in the Semi Final rockets family 🚀🚀
#RocketsAreGo
#britishbasketball
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Congratulations to our former head coach Manuel Pena Garces (
@manuel_pg83
) for winning third place in the
@BasketballCL
with
@CasademontZGZ
🏀
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All the way from Augusta we are pleased to welcome Troy Cracknell to the Rockets 🚀
#RocketsAreGo
#BritishBasketball
#WelcomeCracknell
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So sad to hear of the passing of Coach Andrea. A life committed to our sport and the young people within it.
London’s basketball scene will not feel quite the same without Andrea.
🏀🏀🙏🏻🙏🏻😢😢
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Great news for Adri!
@JmaRockets
has been on a significant journey over the last 3 years and his next step is now in front of him!
#proudofJMA
#effort
#resilience
#skills
#ballin
#USA
#scholarship
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We are pleased to announce that the following 5 players from our academy will be playing with the D1men. Join us in congratulating them on their continued hard work being recognised and wishing them good luck for the season!
#RocketsLaunchpad
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Hey Rockets Fans! Want to hear what Adrian and Arinze had to say after the big home win against Hemel?
Watch the video below, give it a like, and most importantly retweet!
@adrian4sully
@Arinze_2000
@CoachKeane14
@TraeP30
@ElMightyCid
@ACTwoFive
@DCWindsor
@mattjohnson1973
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International duty calls!
Watch our guys in action here:
🏴🇮🇪🏴
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Coach Keane and the team say goodbye to AJ. Both have given a lot to each other and learned from each other too.
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So from 1997s team to what’s about to start tomorrow!
What’s 22 years between friends!
#newyear
#newteam
#footprints
Come and join us.
🏀🚀🙏🏻😊🏴💪
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Relive
@leomefrancis
’ magical triple double last night:
18 Points
11 Rebounds
£76K won on
@BBCOne
’s new gameshow The Wheel
#TheWheel
#RocketsAreGo
#BritishBasketball
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There’s a new MC in Reading!
Welcome Australian Mitch Clarke to the Rockets 🇦🇺 ✍️
#RocketsAreGo
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Exciting times for the Rockets as last night our D1 Men featured on BBC South after our unbeaten start to the season 📺
The hard work continues now this Sunday so make sure to get your tickets and watch the action at Loddon Valley:
#RocketsAreGo
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Welcome back Jonny!
#JonnyIsBack
Jonny returns to the Rockets after playing abroad in Italy, Germany and most recently in Ireland!
We are thrilled to have Jonny back with us!
#RocketsAreGo
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Great to see
@rocketsreading
SEN basketball camp fully booked for Easter. Amazing young people and super stars of the future.
@SOGreatBritain
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Welcome Amba Thompson to the Rockets 🚀
She makes the move from Sevenoaks to Reading for the new season!
#RocketsAreGo
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Welcome, Luke!
After 4️⃣ years at Solent Kestrels we are thrilled to welcome Luke to Rockets 🚀
Talented in photography and content creation, we cannot wait for Luke to get started📸
#RocketsAreGo
#BritishBasketball
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Happy Birthday to Director of B’ball Matt Johnson who is celebrating today with 18 players in Spain on the
@JmaRockets
Erasmus trip. Enjoy!
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Congratulations to the defensive player of the year and now WNBL team of the year,
@sito_gines
!👏👏👏
#RocketsAreGo
#BritishBasketball
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Congratulations
@sito_gines
on committing to St. John's University in New York next year! We look forward to seeing
@StJohnsWBB
Red Storm uniform next year!
#RocketToCollege
#SJUWBB
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FIRST COLLEGE SIGNING✅
After two successful years at JMA, Ronnie has committed to Dawson Community College in the USA🇺🇸
Congratulations
@Ronieloguekwe
and we wish you all the best👏
#RocketToCollege
#RocketsLaunchpad
#BritishBasketball
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Congratulations Asher on your scholarship to
@ReginaCougars
! We are so glad your hard work and dedication hasn’t gone unnoticed.
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Congratulations
@SolentKestrels
on their win against BBL Champions.
Does it open up more thoughts for open promotion and relegation between the divisions now?
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Great to see Rockets connections carrying on many years after these guys shared the court. ☺️☺️🏀🏀🚀🚀🚀🦾🦾
@LukeNelson95_6
@DCWindsor
@Rikki_B5
@manuel_pg83
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Moving away from our club presentation for a moment. Some fantastic news From our Academy at
@JmaRockets
@SFBK_WBB
is getting a fantastic young lady!
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A massive happy 50th birthday to Matt Johnson 🎉🎉🎂🎂
Thank you for all the countless hours of hard work and love put into the club over the years, and we wish you a wonderful birthday 🥳
#RocketsAreGo
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Happy 53rd Wedding anniversary to our amazing owners Gary & Helen Johnson!
Thank you for all your work you have done for the Rockets to make the club what it is today!
We hope you enjoy your special day!
#RocketTogether
#53rdWeddingAnniversary
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Welcome Back Lewis!
Champion returns to Reading for another season.
#RocketsAreGo
#BritishBasketball
#WelcomeBackChampion
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Well done to Matt Marsh (
@JmaRockets
) on his appearance in the Spanish National Final game for u18s. Wrong result this time but incredible level to be playing at!!
#proud
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Another coming soon......We can’t wait....
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