Sport In Profile UK Issue 02 | Page 52

BC CRAWLEY UNITED calling all local businesses to take a part in the club‘s sponsorship and help us to keep playing and growing. Atmosphere “The mood here is very positive in terms of team spirit. We are now training hard as National League will be a new challenge for us. Time to time, as I mentioned before, there are some financial problems that arise, but we stay positive and are trying to keep going forwards.” Youth “Young players are always important for any us. We are looking forward to establishing our branded basketball school here in Crawley. We tried to approach a local Council for some financial solution regarding this Project, but unfortunately it did not come to anything. Local sport authorities are looking for benefits to as many people as possible and when I answered the question ‘how many players are in our team? (which is currently 13)’ they said we cannot offer any financial support to your club as it is beneficial only to a few individuals. The Council got our message totally wrong: first of all we need to establish the team, be able to play good level basketball, create our brand because of that and achieve good results in terms of winning. That way “ Just in the first year of the club‘s history we became Sussex Basketball League Champions, winning 18 games out of 20. ISSUE 02 “ 52