Recently a lecturer in Sports Development at Winchester University saw one of our adverts and suggested that we teach korfball to his students. Vlad and myself have been in there this week and there's another couple of sessions next week, teaching the basics of korfball to approx 60 students in total. Also taking the opportunity of supplying them with suitable printed propaganda. The students are obviously sporty and very interested to learn. From their point of view, they are adding diversity to their course, expanding the student's horizons beyond the handful of major sports that their studies generally focus on.

It remains to be seen what exactly the result of this will be, ideally a new club, but it's only a few minutes down the M3 to Basingstoke, so that might be something that follows later.

Here's a link to find relevant courses near you:
UCAS

You will need to keep at it, but as with all things, persistence pays off. Work as hard as you can on developing a relationship with the institution concerned and the staff members at various levels (if you only have one key contact and he/she goes - it is all over). You will probably also have to make yourself available to teach/coach them during the daytime.

Any players you attract will be sporty, will be extremely competitive and will want to play the game at 100 mph - try to integrate them with 'real' korfballers as soon as possible, but be careful to make sure they are playing against people with equivalent athletic ability - if you have enough to form a team and put them up against other but less sporty newbies, they will dominate totally without having to learn good korfball habits.

You may only hang onto a few, but they will be very useful to have around, as you have worked out.

Still... with the right crowd I can only see this is as good long-term thinking.

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