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Name: Gareth Hoskins (Club Captain/Secretary)
First played for North Oxford: 1998
Other teams played for: Old Ipswichians
Other sports played: Cricket; Rugby (once upon a time), Paume Artignoscaise
Favourite shot: Left hand side-spin into the back left bricks
Favourite courts: Portugal Place, Cambridge (even though they no longer exist)
Greatest achievements in Fives: Captain of Cambridge University EFC 1996; Kinnaird Cup quarter-finalist 2007 & 2011; Hon.Secretary of the Eton Fives Association; Veterans Champion 2014 and 2015
Name: Andy Bishop (Club President)
First played for North Oxford: 1995
Other teams played for: Jesters
Other sports played: Real Tennis; Cricket; Hockey
Favourite shot: Cut return straight into the front wall and back into the body for a let
Favourite courts: Summer Fields
Greatest achievement in Fives: EFA Director 2016-2025; EFA Vice-President 2025-; Coaching Summer Fields pairs to wins in the U12 and Prep Schools' Championships 2015; EFA Coach of the Year 2015
Name: Spencer Chapman (Club Sponsor & Treasurer)
First played for North Oxford: 2004/05 season
Other teams played for: Old Citizens; Jesters
Other sports played: Boxing; Padel Tennis
Favourite shot: Any cut return
Favourite courts: Summer Fields of course
Greatest achievement in Fives: That I'm still playing the game! Part of North Oxford EFA Trophy and Division 2 winning teams 2009 and 12-14; Part of the Aston House Studs Westway Summer Superleague winning team 2010; took a game off Tom Dunbar in the Barber Cup in 2016; Oldest player to win a Half-Blue for Eton Fives; OUEFC captain 2025/26
Name: Karen Hird
First played for North Oxford: 2009
Other teams played for: Cambridge University; Jesters; Repton
Other sports played: Badminton; Real Tennis; Rackets; Paume Artignoscaise
Favourite shot: Half-Volley
Favourite courts: Hamburg
Greatest achievement in Fives: Ladies National Champion 2013-2025; Member of the NOEFC Black Cup winning team 2017, 2018 and 2021 and Repton Black Cup winning team 2025; Member of the NOEFC Boughton Bowl winning teams 2021 and 2024. National Mixed Champion 2021, 2023 and 2024. EFA Player of the Year 2018 and 2022.
Name: Justin Shaw
First played for North Oxford: 2005
Other teams played for: Old Westminsters
Other sports played: Cricket; Tennis
Favourite shot: Back court drop shot into the buttress
Favourite courts: Westminster
Greatest achievement in Fives: Very minor part in OWW Div 2 champions squad (2006); Part of North Oxford EFA Trophy and Division 2 winning teams 2009 and 12-14; Part of the Aston House Studs Westway Summer Superleague winning team 2010
Name: Ian Mitchell
First played for North Oxford: 2007
Other teams played for: Windsor & Eton; EFA; Old Salopians; Monday Club
Other sports played: None for a long time (unless you count Pool, or Mind Sports); Paume Artignoscaise
Favourite shot: Any shot that ends in the pepper!
Favourite courts: Shrewsbury, if only for nostalgic reasons
Greatest achievement in Fives: Well, er, nothing that I could consider a great achievement, but I did win the Festival at the Northern a few years ago. I can’t even remember which year! Part of the Aston House Studs Westway Summer Superleague winning team 2010
Name: Chris Lloyd
First played for North Oxford: 2002
Other teams played for: Old Stoics
Other sports played: Golf; Cricket; Squash
Favourite shot: Cross Court drive to bottom of pot
Favourite courts: Stowe
Greatest achievement in Fives: Last 16 in the Kinnaird Cup; Part of North Oxford EFA Trophy winning squad 2009; Over 50s champion 2012, 2013, 2018
Name: Chris Davies
First played for North Oxford: 2001
Other teams played for: Old Cholmeleians; The Village
Other sports played: Cricket; Golf
Favourite shot: Any that can't be retrieved by the opponents
Favourite courts: Highgate
Greatest achievement in Fives: Still playing! (Editor's note: Chris's modesty/selective memory forbids him from mentioning his part in winning the Barber Cup on several occasions with the Old Cholmeleians plus his highly successful coaching career at Highgate School); Part of North Oxford EFA Trophy and Division 2 winning team 2009 and 12-14; Over 50s champion 2012, 2013, 2018; EFA Chairman 2017-2023
Name: Martin Fiennes
First played for North Oxford: 2005
Other teams played for: Old Etonians
Other sports played: Football; Cricket
Favourite shot: Volley, volley, volley
Favourite courts: Summer Fields - light and warm!
Greatest achievement in Fives: It's all about the taking part etc etc (disguising lack of real achievements save winning the House Fives at Eton in 1979); Part of North Oxford EFA Trophy winning squad 2009
Name: Graham "Grandad" Pulsford
First played for North Oxford: 2007
Other teams played for: Cambridge University; Old Aldenhamians; Heath; EFA; Jesters; Old Edwardians
Other sports played: Cricket
Favourite shot: Left hand volley from top step to back right hand bricks
Favourite courts: Portugal Place, Cambridge now Aldenham
Greatest achievement in Fives: Still waiting - watch this space! Part of North Oxford EFA Trophy and Division 2 winning teams 2009 and 12-14; Serial winner of the MJS-J Cup
Name: Nick Shaw
First played for North Oxford: 2007
Other teams played for: Cambridge University; Old Harrovians
Other sports played: Squash; Tennis; Paume Artignoscaise
Favourite shot: Back court shot round three walls with extra side spin dying in the buttress. Just remember to avoid the vertical ledge on the right wall.
Favourite courts: Eton for their consistency, North Provence for the sunshine!
Greatest achievement in Fives: Winner of Schools' Open Championship '94; Captain of Cambridge University EFC '99; Part of North Oxford EFA Trophy winning team 2009; Member of North Oxford Division 2 and Old Harrovians Division 1 winning teams 2008/09 and 2016/17; Part of the Aston House Westway Summer Superleague winning teams 2010 & 2017; Kinnaird Cup quarter-finalist 2011; NOEFC Three Code Challenge winner 2018
Name: Peter Scholey
First played for North Oxford: 2006
Other teams played for: Old Edwardians
Other sports played: Moped endurance racing national champion (1991). Rubbish golfer.
Favourite shot: Two walls into the buttress from low back right.
Favourite courts: The old lilac grey courts at City of London.
Greatest achievement in Fives: Part of North Oxford Division 2 winning teams 2009 and 12-14; Old Edwardians Division 1 winners 1975 and 1976. 1994 Graves Cup. 2003 Vets. 2014 over 50s. Also I think Warwickshire County Champs...but no idea when. Greatest achievement was getting my daughter to play so that we can (exactly) equal John Cooley's record of competing with all three sons and a daughter in the father and "sons" tournament. Member of the NOEFC Boughton Bowl winning team 2021.
Name: Nigel Cox
First played for North Oxford: 2006
Other teams played for: Lancing Old Boys; The Brigands; Newbury
Other sports played: Croquet
Favourite shot: Without doubt the most satisfying single shot of my whole career was when, after begin fouled in a very Hughesian manner on an easy front court volley, I was able to drill Tony Hughes straight between the eyes hitting the ball as hard as I could on a foot down cut
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Greatest achievement in Fives: The pinnacles are so far in the past I have difficulty remembering them!
Name: Jeremy Hindle
First played for North Oxford: 2007
Other teams played for: Old Etonians
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Favourite courts: Eton
Greatest achievement in Fives: Part of the Aston House Studs Westway Summer Superleague winning team 2010
Name: Adrian Fort
First played for North Oxford: 2008
Other teams played for: Old Etonians; Jesters
Other sports played: Real Tennis; Squash
Favourite shot: Long distance cut
Favourite courts: Westminster; Summer Fields
Greatest achievement in Fives: TBA
Name: Jon Staley
First played for North Oxford: 2009
Other teams played for: Old Wellingtonians; Westminster; EFA
Other sports played: Golf, Running, Rugby
Favourite shot: Tight back right hand side of court drop shot off right hand wall into pepper pot. (Editor's note: this should really read the bash straight down the middle that goes 10 feet out)
Favourite courts: Wellington before they were knocked down (Now the cherry court cafe!)...Shrewsbury since then
Greatest achievement in Fives: Northern Tournament Festival Winner 2008/09; Schools' Championships Plate Winner 1997
Name: Mandie Barnes
First played for North Oxford: 2009
Other teams played for: Windsor & Eton
Other sports played: Tennis; Paume Artignoscaise
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Greatest achievement in Fives: EFA Director; Member of the NOEFC Black Cup winning team 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2023
Name: Emily Scoones
First played for North Oxford: 2010
Other teams played for: Old Cholmeleians
Other sports played: Running
Favourite shot: cut return into the pepper (running in from the back court and returning round-the-wall-cuts especially)
Favourite courts: Highgate
Greatest achievement in Fives: Ladies Under 21 champion 2010. Schools Nationals semi-finalist 2009; Ladies Under 25s champion 2011; Part of the Aston House Studs Westway Summer Superleague winning team 2010; Ladies Finalist 2017 - 2025; Mixed Champion 2022 and 2025 EFA Director
Name: Chris Austin
First played for North Oxford: 2010
Other teams played for: Old Wulfrunians; Heath
Other sports played: Cricket, Football, Badminton
Favourite shot: Round-arm from back left over the buttress and hugging the wall; Any right-hand volley I don't fluff horribly!
Favourite courts: Old courts at WGS before they became a minibus garage!
Greatest achievement in Fives: Winner of Schools' Open Championships 1993; Member of Old Wulfrunians EFA Trophy winning team 2010; Member of Aston House WSSL winning team 2017
Name: Stefan Nowinski
First played for North Oxford: 2010
Other teams played for: Oxford University Peppers
Other sports played: Running
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Greatest achievement in Fives: National Over 60s champion 2022; Three Code Challenge Winner 2021
Name: Carl Rennie
First played for North Oxford: 2010
Other teams played for: Old Aldenhamians
Other sports played: Squash and Hockey
Favourite shot: A nice and lofty defence with the left hand over the buttress
Favourite courts: Aldenham
Greatest achievement in Fives: Kinnaird Festival winner 2010 and a victory over Eton's second pair at the Schools' Nationals long before I knew what good Fives looked like
Name: Jonny Nelmes
First played for North Oxford: 2007
Other teams played for: Oxford University; Lancing Old Boys
Other sports played: Cricket
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Name: Harriet Asquith
First played for North Oxford: 2012
Other teams played for: Oxford University
Other sports played: Paume Artignoscaise
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Greatest achievement in Fives: Oxford University Half-Blue 2012 and 2013; Mutiple Ladies Semi-Finalist. Member of the NOEFC Black Cup winning team 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Member of the NOEFC Boughton Bowl winning team 2021
Name: Francesca Turnbull
First played for North Oxford: 2013
Other teams played for: Windsor & Eton
Other sports played: Tennis, Karate
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Greatest achievements in Fives: Member of the NOEFC Black Cup winning team 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023; NOEFC Three Code Challenge winner 2016
Name: Seb Cooley
First played for North Oxford: 2014
Other teams played for: Old Olavians, Jesters
Other sports played: Cricket (badly); Paume Artignoscaise
Favourite shot: "the Parham"
Favourite courts: Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz
Greatest achievements in Fives: starting a few fives careers (Cobb, Piggott, Kirkby, Breese, Panayi... ); developing a few others (Lewis, Parham, Sale, Weld...) Part of and then coach of Schools' Championships winning pairs 20 years apart. Editor's Note: Rumour has it Seb has also won the odd trophy or two in his Fives career so far.
Name: James Piggot
First played for North Oxford: 2015
Other teams played for: Oxford University; Old Etonians
Other sports played: Squash
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Greatest achievements in Fives: National Schools' Winner 2014; Universities Champion 2015, 2016 & 2017; U21 Champion 2016; Universities Mixed Champion 2016; U25 Champion 2017
Name: Stephen Thatcher
First played for North Oxford: 2016
Other teams played for: Old Edwardians; Oxford University
Other sports played: Badminton; Cricket
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Greatest achievement in Fives: Kinnaird Pepperpot Trophy Winner 2022
Name: Robert Wilson
First played for North Oxford: 2012
Other teams played for: Cambridge University, Windsor & Eton
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Greatest achievements in Fives: Cambridge University captain 2013/14; Kinnaird Cup quarter-finalist
Name: Ralph Morgan
First played for North Oxford: 2012
Other teams played for: Old Citizens, Jesters, Old Cholmeleians
Other sports played: None
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Favourite courts: Grillon and Zuoz
Greatest achievement in Fives: Graves Cup Champion 2015; NOEFC Three Codes Champion 2014
Name: Nathan Turnbull
First played for North Oxford: 2015
Other teams played for: Cambridge University, Windsor & Eton
Other sports played: Rugby Fives
Favourite shot: Hard shot backwards into the back bricks, rebounding up onto the front wall - the "Jack Parham"
Favourite courts: Cambridge
Greatest achievements in Fives: Cambridge University Half-Blue 2017 and Captain 2017/18
Name: Faye Kerr
First played for North Oxford: 2017
Other teams played for: None
Other sports played: Hockey; Shouting
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Greatest achievement in Fives: Member of the NOEFC Black Cup winning team 2017, 2018 and 2021
Name: Robert Thorogood
First played for North Oxford: 2018
Other teams played for: Cambridge University, Old Uppinghamians
Other sports played: Village cricket
Favourite shot: Any cut return, frankly
Favourite courts: Uppingham first court (with the 4th court being the worst)
Greatest achievement in Fives: 1988, Guinness World Record Holder for Endurance Fives. Four of us played (and had to score) a match that lasted 38 hours.
Name: Rachel Wood
First played for North Oxford: 2018
Other teams played for: None
Other sports played: Squash
Favourite shot: A leaping right-hand volley of the cut return into the pot, preferably avoiding the returner's face. Or the occasional backwards-through-the-legs on top step....
Favourite courts: Zuoz upper courts
Greatest achievement in Fives: Member of the NOEFC Black Cup winning teams 2018, 2021 and 2022; runner-up in the 2021 National Ladies Championships; member of the NOEFC Boughton Bowl winning team 2021 and 2024; Universities Champion 2021 and 2022. EFA Director.
Name: Matt Chinery
First played for North Oxford: 2018
Other teams played for: Windsor & Eton
Other sports played: Football; squash
Favourite shot: Slow overarm slap from back right off front wall into an unguarded pepper
Favourite courts: Zuoz
Greatest achievement in Fives: Midlands Festival winner 2018, Engadin Challenge Cup finalist 2018, Northern Festival Winner 2022, Kinnard Pepperpot Trophy Winner 2022. Member of the 2022 WSSL Aston House Stampede team. EFA Chair 2023-.
Name: Simon Cass
First played for North Oxford: 2017
Other teams played for: Old Ipswichians; Cambridge Chroniclers
Other sports played: Does the guitar count?
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Greatest achievement in Fives: Graves Cup winner 2022
Name: Oli Lawton
First played for North Oxford: 2016
Other teams played for: Aldenham
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Name: Tom McCahon
First played for North Oxford: 2018
Other teams played for: Team Westway, Emanuel
Other sports played: Pool. snooker. squash
Favourite shot: A running backwards return around the walls and into the pot.
Favourite courts: Emanuel centre court with a chair in the middle.
Greatest achievement in Fives: U12 Individual Tournament Finalist; Kinnaird Cup quarter-finalist 2021
Name: Chris Lumbard
First played for North Oxford: 2016
Other teams played for: Old Citizens, Lancing
Other sports played: Running
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Name: Steve Kaaber Gore
First played for North Oxford: 2019
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Name: Kirby Clayton
First played for North Oxford: 2019
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Greatest achievement in Fives: Dossi Dish winner at the 2021 Mixed Championships
Name: Alex Abrahams
First played for North Oxford: 2019
Other teams played for: Lancing; Brigands
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Greatest achievement in Fives: Runner-up 2019 Under 25 Tournament; Member of the NOEFC Boughton Bowl winning team 2021 and 2024; Kinnaird Cup quarter-finalist 2024 and 2025
Name: Toby Bush
First played for North Oxford: 2019
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Name: Tom Hoskins
First played for North Oxford: 2017
Other teams played for: Old Edwardians
Other sports played: Hockey, Cricket, Table Tennis, Paume Artignoscaise
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Greatest achievement in Fives: Winner of the 2019 Mike Fenn Plate at the Aberconway Cup; Universities Tournament semi-finalist 2023, 2024 and 2025
Name: Noah Caplin
First played for North Oxford: 2018
Other teams played for: Oxford University
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Greatest achievement in Fives: Oxford University Half-Blue; Under 25 Champion 2020, 2021 and 2022; Kinnaird Cup semi-finalist 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; Northern Tournament finalist 2022; Member of the NOEFC Boughton Bowl winning team 2021. EFA Young Player of the Year 2022.
Name: Sophie Clifford-King
First played for North Oxford: 2022
Other teams played for: Oxford University
Other sports played: Squash
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Greatest achievement in Fives: Oxford University Half-Blue 2022; Member of the NOEFC Black Cup winning team 2022
Name: Matt Asquith
First played for North Oxford: 2021
Other teams played for: Old Etonians
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Name: Isaac Weaver
First played for North Oxford: 2024
Other teams played for: Old Ipswichians
Other sports played: Hockey, Squash, Rugby Fives
Favourite shot: Angled shot from half way up the court; front wall, side wall into back bricks
Favourite courts: Ipswich Court 2
Greatest achievement in Fives: U25s winner 2025; Graves Cup winner 2023
Name: Archie Cameron-Blackie
First played for North Oxford: 2023
Other teams played for: Cranleigh on occasion. Repton by association.
Other sports played: Climbing/Bouldering
Favourite shot: A good cut that makes a nice solid thud against the returner's left shoe. Alternatively, a perfectly weighted top court shot to the right - just dying enough that neither opponent knows whether to call it for themselves.
Favourite courts: Repton/Eton
Greatest achievement in Fives: Being dragged kicking and screaming to the Midlands title by Charles Plummer in 2023; Being fortunate enough to help the sport through my photography work.
Name: Fred Prickett
First played for North Oxford: 2024
Other teams played for: Old Harrovians; Emanuel Wanderers
Other sports played: Cricket, Football (Rather poorly), Padel, Fly Fishing
Favourite shot: Two walls from the back-court into the pepper pot with excessive spin
Favourite courts: Harrow Court 2, Summer Fields Right-sided Court (Only because you don't have to constantly go and as for your ball back when serving)
Greatest achievement in Fives: U25 Winner (2025) and Finalist (2024), Barber Cup Finalist (2020)
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