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Skills Awards for Dundee’s Youngsters

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DKC's youth players receive their Level 1 Skills Awards (23/12/2013)

DKC’s youth players receive their Level 1 Skills Awards (19/12/2013)

Christmas came early for ten young members of Dundee Korfball Club, who received their SKA Level 1 Korfball Skills Awards on December 19, 2013.  Some of the club’s youngsters have been playing regularly for the past 18 months – that’s longer than many of our adult players – and have stuck with the sport through thick and thin – with record highs and lows in the youth section’s attendance figures of 10 and 1!

To earn their awards, each player has successfully demonstrated all of the basic skills of korfball over a time course of several weeks to several months. The skills tested include passing and catching, marking and evading, shooting, defending, taking support positions and playing as part of a team. They also had to demonstrate good sporting behaviour, and generally help the coaches to run each session smoothly.  Not all of the players can do all of these things perfectly all of the time, of course, but their coaches will be working to improve on that, and build them up to Level 2 in the future.

Dundee Tournament 2013

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Dundee Tournament 2013 (click here for photos)

Dundee played host to its second annual outdoor tournament yesterday as nine teams descended on Dawson Park to battle it out for the DKC Cup.  Saturday’s good weather continued into Sunday, ensuring that the games were played, for the most part, in beautiful sunshine but with a little bit of wind to make shooting that bit more interesting.  This year’s competition attracted a club outside of Scotland for the first time, with two teams from Lancaster University joining in the fun.

Edinburgh University 1 dominated proceedings, winning all eight of their games to walk away with the trophy.  Second place went to the Dundee Crocs, securing the highest ever position for a Dundee team in any competition, a final win against the Dundee Dragons securing their position.  Reigning champions Edinburgh City finished fifth, while Dundee Dragons finished bottom of the pile, despite playing some very nice korfball all day.

The lunchtime break brought a chance for some our juniors to play a short game, and it was really fantastic to see those youngsters out on the astroturf, both watching the adult games and also showing what they themselves can do.

A massive debt of gratitude is owed to all those who made the competition a success: to Nigel and Mary Cooper, without whom the day would not have happened, and without whom we wouldn’t have a club; to Marion, Emily and Elaine, who came along to help with the food and drink; to Gareth and Eleanor, who travelled all the way from Crewe to lend us the pitch tapes and to man the results desk all day long; to all the referees, some of whom officiated in every session in which they were not playing; to all those who provided baking to help keep us all going; to all the teams, who played out the day in a great spirit; to the parents who brought their children along to help inspire the next generation; and to each and every member of Dundee Korfball Club, all of whom worked incredibly hard on the day to make the competition happen.  We look forward to seeing you all back again next year.

Full results and standings can be downloaded here.

Youth Korfball Programme, 2013

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Dundee Korfball Club is coordinating a programme of  youth korfball activities this Spring/Summer. We will be running a short series of beginners’ training sessions in primary schools, and then getting the kids to play in two inter-school korfball competitions. The programme is being funded by a large grant from the Big Lottery’s 2014 Communities Fund, with additional support from Foundation Scotland’s Red Nose Day Communities Fund and Dundee City Council’s SportDundee Grant Aid.

The first opportunity for the youngsters to play competitively will come on Dundee Day, the club’s one-day Summer Tournament on Sunday, May 26, 2013 at Dawson Park, near Broughty Ferry. This event will attract both junior and adult korfball teams from around the country (and hopefully beyond), and will include either a round-robin or knock-out style of competition.

The second opportunity, and the finale of the youth programme, will come at the Scottish Korfball Association’s Schools Open Korfball Championship on Saturday, June 15, 2013, at Dundee’s International Sports Complex (DISC). This event will be open to korfball teams from primary schools from around the country, and will be limited to P7 (and younger) players.

In the lead-up to these events, we will be delivering taster sessions, followed by 4-5 weeks worth of an introductory training course, to as many as eight schools in and around Dundee. Rosie Henshaw will be leading the course in Saint Andrews, Terri Lloyd and Michael Nicholson in Dundee, Nigel Cooper and Steven Morrison in Birkhill and Liff, and Caroline Cohen and Erwin Oosterhoorn in Rattray, Burrelton, Blairgowrie, Alyth and Meigle.

If anyone else would like to be involved in this project, please get in touch with Nigel Cooper on 07817-640432 (or nigel@dundee.korfball.org.uk) for more details.

For the joy of korf (“and the winners are…”)

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It is with great sadness that Dundee Korfball Club is forced to announce that…

Joy of Korf

For the Joy of Korf

The winner of this month’s Joy of Korf Award is none other than Alan Morrison! Whoopee, and well done Alan (that really was a great party!).

And just for the record, previous winners of the prestigious JoK award include:

  • June – Tanjeel Maleque for the sensational pub quiz extravaganza
  • July – Michael Nicholson for helping Nigel with the juniors sessions
  • August – Fiona Ianetta for her positive attitude at training and games
  • September – Terri Lloyd for her hard work on tactics in training
  • October – Emely Paul for attending the referees course and taking her first steps in refereeing within the SKL
  • November – Mary Cooper for generally being “super”, and for winning 2 MVPs in one day

Korfmas Hats at junior training, 13/12/12

Also, in related news, the club is delighted to announce that its first ever Korfmas Hat competition has been won by Rosie Lloyd, who proudly paraded her home-made hat throughout the final juniors training session of the year. Well done Rosie!

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.

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 →

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