Highbury Korfball Club
Established in August 2003, Highbury Korfball Club (HKC) is based in North London, England and is a member of the England Korfball Association [1]. Highbury Korfball Club succeeded Arsenal Korfball Club, which was established by Hugh Barker in 1998. Rebranding occurred because Sam is a Tottenham fan.
With 4 teams, HKC competes across a range from highly competitive to highly social indoor korfball leagues, generally in the London area during the winter months. During the summer, Highbury competes at many standards in many tournaments held over weekends through out the UK, Holland, Luxembourg and Hungary. The summer tournaments are often but not always played outdoors.
League History
2003 - 2006
The club has been established in the London League for many years.
2006 - 2007
In the season of 2006-2007, Highbury expanded to become a 2 team club including 4 Australian's who did Highbury and Australia proud as they participated in the Commonwealth & Friends Korfball Tournament that was held in Croydon during the summer of 2006.
2007 - 2008
In the season of 2006-2007, Highbury expanded to become a 3 team club. To ensure the quality rose with the quantity, Highbury travelled to Holland once again to compete in an outdoor tournament but this time took in a couple of extra days to participate in a training camp run for Highbury's benefit by Mart Huijbregts. Highbury looked internally to strengthen it's coaching staff base and subsidised that attendance of two of it's members to the annual Avon Tyrell Level 2 Coaching Qualification course.
2008 - 2009
In the season of 2008-2009, Highbury expanded to become a 4 team club. This was the year that the EKA disbanded the National Reserve and National Division 1 Leagues and introduced a new Regional League structure. Highbury took their place in the new structure by competing in the newly formed South East Regional League. For the first time, Highbury brought in an external full time coach to train the elite squad; Tamara Burnell, a National Premiere League player with Bec KC and Scottish representative was given the job which also included training the players of Highbury 2 which competed in the London 1st Division.
Highbury 3 swept aside most opposition in the London 3rd division only losing two games, both by a single goal but a scheduling technicality lead to a game being forfeited and the title slipping from their grasp. There could be no hard feelings though as the eventual winners of the league, Supernova 2, were the only team not to suffer defeat at the hands of Highbury 3 with the head-to-head battles resulting in a draw and a single goal win to Supernova[2].
2009 - 2010
For 2009-2010 Highbury have welcomed the news that London will form their own region due to the restructuring of Regional Leagues. Highbury 1 will play in the London Regional League and will be respresented with a team in each of Divisions 2, 3 and 4.
Squad (Current)
|
|
- Head coach
Stuart Ironmonger
- Assistant coach
Ben Hale
- Development squad coach Sophie Robins
Honours
- 2007/8 Highbury champions of the LKA Premier League; Highbury 2 champions of LKA 2nd Division
International Representation
- 2009 Edith Hornick[3] represented Luxembourg at the Eurobowl, Western Conference, Luxembourg[4].
- 2007 Ben Hale[5] represented Australia at the World Championship, Brno, Czech Republic[6].
- 2006 Tom Bukojemski, Ben Hale, Natalie Shield[7] and Andrew Speck represented Australia at the inaugural Commonwealth Championships, Croydon, London, UK.
Internal posts and awards
| Year | Chair | Secretary | Head Coach | Captain | MVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10 | Andrew Speck | Sophie Robins | Stuart Ironmonger | Moses Hutchinson-Pascal | TBD |
| 2008-09 | Moses Hutchinson-Pascal | Samantha Febrey | Tamara Burnell (Pre-season: Mart Huijbregts) | Olga Sanderova | Olga Sanderova |
| 2007-08 | Moses Hutchinson-Pascal | Sophie Robins | Arnaud Chevalier, Sam Larkham (Pre-season: Mart Huijbregts) | Toby Catlin | - |
| 2006-07 | Elizabeth Garlick | Sophie Robins | Sam Larkham | Toby Catlin | Sophie Robins (fem), Ben Hale, Shah Munir (split male) |
| 2005-06 | Susan Moore | James Medhurst + Sophie Robins | Martin Jones | Sam Larkham | - |
| 2004-05 | Susan Moore | James Medhurst | Martin Jones | Sam Larkham | - |
References
- ^ http://www.englandkorfball.co.uk
- ^ http://www.supernova.org.uk/
- ^ http://www.worldkorfball.org/players/Edith-HORNICK.html
- ^ http://www.worldkorfball.org/competitions/50.html
- ^ http://www.worldkorfball.org/players/Ben-HALE.html
- ^ http://www.worldkorfball.org/competitions/29.html
- ^ http://www.worldkorfball.org/players/natalie-shield.html