University of Chichester Spitfires American Football

It is with great sadness that we share with you all the passing of one of our Alumni, Alex Langham.

Langham, as he is fondly known, was involved with the club between 2014-2017 as a player and assistant on game days.

After a tragic accident at his home in Suffolk Alex passed away this morning at 7am.

Langham was always the life and soul of any event, bringing sunshine into the lives of all he came in contact with. Whether it was his special team heroics, his devilish laugh or belting out Anastasia, you always had a great time when Langham was around. As well as this, he is an incredible human being who had the biggest of hearts and smiles. Always dependable if called upon and an all around fantastic young man.

Taken too early from us at the age of 28, all of us at the spitfires send out love to Tony, Clare, Theo, all family and friends of Alex in this tough time.

Rest easy Langham, once a spitfire always a spitfire 💛💙💛💙

A massive thank you to everyone who came down to support us today. It means an incredible amount to see so many friends, family, alumni and students on the sidelines of our games.

Thank you to Kingston for a competitive and well fought game. Good luck for the rest of your season.

Not the result we wanted today but we bounce back and look forward to Oxford next weekend.

Finally, a massive thank you to Julie and Tim Musk for coming down and bringing Will’s jersey. It was a privilege to honour Will today and we hope we did yourselves and him proud.

Once a spitfire always a spitfire!

Today marked the day of our jersey presentation and the naming of our captains for game day one.

We are honoured to name Will Musk our team captain for our first game of the 2021/22 season against Kingston.

Sending huge love to Julie Musk, Tim and Rosie. Thank you for letting us share our memories of Will and allowing us to honour him at the game on Sunday.

Once a spitfire, always a spitfire.

Calling all University of Chichester freshers. Come and join the spitfires and make your univeristy life a memorable one. Drop us a dm or come and visit us at freshers fair to find out more.

News alert

Former Club Captain and passing record holder Tom Read has been invited to join the GB Women’s coaching roster as QB coach.

Tom was a spitfire 2014-16 featuring for the club at safety and wide receiver but starring at QB where he holds records for single game and season yards and TDs.

Tom’s highlights at the club include a 6 TD display vs BNU and leading the club in a historic 20-7 comeback to defeat Southampton Stags to help the club to its first ever win.

We wish Tom all the best in his new role and know he’ll do great.

Joining Chichester University and think you have what it takes? Come down to our rookie dates in September and find out.

The club are incredibly excited to announce that Dan De Lucia will be joining the coaching staff to coach our defensive backs for the 2021/22 season.

DDL has been around the game for 13 years and represented Great Britain against Russia, Holland, Sweden, Italy and Denmark at youth level as well as being a member of the Sussex thunder and a current member of the Solent Thrashers. If you’d like to see what DDL is all about then click the link below.

https://youtu.be/LBthbL7TmFM

Welcome to the Spitfires Coach DDL

Today marks one year since we lost our brother Will. Will was able incredible young man, student, team-mate, brother and son who will remain in our memories forever.
We would like to take this moment to send our love and thoughts to the Musk family whom we have also grown to love as part of our spitfires family.
Once a spitfire always a spitfire.