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Events over Christmas

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Some dates for your diaries over the Christmas period…

December 2012

Thursday 13th, 5:30-6:30pm – last youth session of the year at Ardler
6:30-8:00pm, festive adults session at Ardler (bring a seasonal hat – there may even be a prize for the best one.)

Saturday 15th , evening: Party at Alan’s house. Details from Tanjeel / Alan.

Thursday 20th, 6:30-8:00pm – last adult session of the year at Ardler

January 2013

Thursday 3rd, 5:30-6:30pm – first youth session of the year at Ardler
6:30-8:00pm– first adult session of the year

Tuesday 8th, 6-7:30pm – first session of the year at Craigowl

Sunday 13th, 1-4pm at Douglas Sports Centre (DD4 8TG): Mini tournament to say farewell to Amy & to Steve Gilchrist

After School Korfball Clubs starting on Oct 23

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We’re all set to start up two new after-schools clubs beginning on October 23…
The first one will be at Birkhill Primary, and is being hosted by the Angus Active Schools Coordinator, Jo Whaite. This one will run from 3:30 to 4:30pm.
The second one is a bit later on, from 6:00 to 7:30pm, and will be hosted by Mark Brash, who is the ASC for the Craigowl cluster in Dundee. These later sessions will be aimed at secondary school kids, but will be held in the main sports hall at Craigowl Primary (download the flyer here).
Anyone wanting any more details for either club should contact Nigel Cooper, DKC’s Youth Development Officer, on 07817 640432.

And don’t forget that our regular youth section is still running every Thursday evening at the Ardler Complex, from 5:30-6:30pm. Everyone is welcome here, and everyone’s first session is completely free of charge.

Community Chest Competition

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DKC has registered for a chance to win £500 in The Evening Telegraph’s Community Chest competition. All that we have to do is collect as many Community Chest tokens as we can over the next 10 weeks. Tokens will be printed on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the Evening Telegraph, from now until November 10. Please cut them out and keep them to add to the collection box that we will be putting in a local shop / community centre sometime soon. Many thanks!

SKL announces provisional league fixtures for 2012/13

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The provisional schedule for the SKL 2012/13 has been released, and sees Dundee pitted against 11 other teams across 6 multi-game-venues. Our games are spread out fairly evenly between Sept 23 and Nov 25, and include 2 home fixtures (possibly 3, if we can convince Mavs to come up here to play in a 3-way MGV). Full details* are included in our events calendar.

* As the schedule is only provisional at this stage (I’ve guessed the game-times based on last year’s programme, for example), please remember that all games are subject to change.

A jump start for youth korfball in Dundee

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Thank you letter

I love korfball

Over the past few months, a small bunch of dedicated korfaholics have been trying to kick-start youth korfball in the Dundee area. Working with the Active Schools Coordinators for 10 primary schools (and one High School), we have managed to deliver taster sessions to over 700 kids in and around Dundee between April and June of 2012. We also managed to run a fledgling after schools club in Birkhill for 6 weeks, just before the start of the Summer holidays.

The main outcome of all this activity was the formation of DKCs own junior section, which is now up and running every Thursday evening at the Ardler Complex (from 5:30-6:30pm). Continue reading →

DundeeDay 2012 (27/5/12)

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Plans are coming together nicely for our inaugural Summer Tournament (Sunday, May 27, 2012). We have a total of 6 teams entered, so we’ve opted for a simple round-robin format: each team will play every other team once in a series of 30-minute matches in Dawson Park (DD5 1PJ). Start time is 11am, last game ends at 4:30pm. And the best news of all? Dundee have enough players for 2 teams! See the preliminary DundeeDay 2012 schedule (PDF) for more details.

End of Season Stats

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So, the 2011/12 season is finally over, and the official stats for our first season are in. And guess what? We won the development league – yipeee! Mary came out as top scorer and most frequent MVP in the three team development league as well, which is no mean feat for someone who looks so young and new to the game. 🙂 It’s also impressive just how many real Dundee players there are up there near the top of the stats tables (as well as how many of our players managed to score at least one goal in their first season): well done everyone!

PS: I know that the stats for everyone aren’t quite right, and the MVP system has many flaws, but the overall picture is a very promising one, and the guy who’s been in charge of the leagues this year – Simon from Mavs – has done a brilliant (though somewhat thankless) job.

Team Played W D L GF GA GD Points
Dundee 1 17 6 3 8 83 126 -43 15
Ed Uni 4 20 5 1 14 80 193 -113 11
Glasgow 2 11 3 1 7 50 78 -28 7

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SKA AGM proposals

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A short message from the SKA, asking for feedback on 3 topics at their AGM: please feel free to write comments below, or forward your views to Nigel or Mary, who will be representing the club at the AGM.

The AGM is looming, and the SKA has three significant proposals to put before the meeting, relating to a change in the league structure, an introduction of a cup competition, and payment for refs. These proposals are attached [follow the blue links to three MS Word documents]…
In order to keep the debate to a manageable length, the plan is for the meeting to discuss and vote only on the proposals put before it, rather than proposing their own amendments or innovations, so if you can think of a tweak or two that would improve the plans then please let us know now. Any other comment welcome too.

From Josh Cockburn, SKA Development Officer

Plans for Youth Korfball

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Youth Korfball

Youth Korfball

Just a little update on our plans to bring youth korfball to the area. We now have a definite start date, and we are getting support from several Active Schools coordinators, so things look very promising. The planned outcome includes two “feeder” clubs, leading up to a combined Thursday evening (5:30-6:30pm) youth section at the Ardler Complex.

One feeder club will be based at Craigowl Primary, most likely starting on May 17 (every Thursday for 5 weeks, from 4:30 to 5:15pm). The other one will be at Birkhill Primary from 6pm to 7pm on Tuesday evenings, starting on May 8 (every Tuesday for 6 weeks). We will be runnig a series of taster sessions in various schools over the next few weeks to pump prime the two feeder clubs (see events diary for dates).

A flyer (and parental consent form) for the combined Thursday-evening club is available here: A Jump Start for Youth Korfball in Dundee.

We hope that these developments will be of interest to lots of kids and families, and look forward to making it all work out. If anyone would like to volunteer to help in any way, please get in touch with the club’s youth development officer (me!) a.s.a.p.
Nigel Cooper
Chair & YDO, Dundee Korfball Club
07817 640432