About the club

MK City Korfball Club, founded 2006, and new club MK Roos Korfball Club, founded 2007, are run by a joint committee to help with the organisation for the 2007/08 season....chair Darren, treasurer Graham, City coach Katie, social sec Claire and child protection officer Holly, City captain Sarah and Roos captain Emma. Anyway, a bit of history....

We were set up in September 2006 to expand korfball in Milton Keynes! If you are wondering what korfball

actually is, it's a dynamic mixed team sport, originally from Holland, with 4 men and 4 women in a team.

It has been described as a mixture of Handball, Netball & Basketball. The pitch is divided into 2 halves

with a basket (korf) in each division - the idea being to score as many goals as you can! It's great fun and

very easy to pick up. It's mainly played inside in winter, when there are league matches, but also outside in

summer, with all-day tournaments.

Korfball first came to MK in 2004 with the launch of the MK Bucks. The club was immensely successful, winning the 2005 and 2006 Oxfordshire Cups and then the 2005/06 Oxfordshire league. However, we recognised that to be a truly successful korfball area and develop like other areas such as Norwich and Cambridge, we needed more than one club in the city, and also that there were interested people around who would prefer an earlier training slot than the 8:30 slot used by the Bucks, and that the Bucks' Thursday training slot clashed with many other MK sports clubs and activities. Therefore, Bucks player Darren Gray suggested that if a new club was launched in an earlier training slot, some of his workmates from Milton Keynes Council would be able to form the initial core of beginner players, and Bucks chair Katie Metters was willing to be the main coach for the new club and Graham Walter the treasurer.