Sport In Profile UK Issue 02 | Page 53

BC CRAWLEY UNITED we would become an attractive basketball icon for the local youth, where everyone wishes to play. Achieving this stage would mean we can offer to the local public and youth a well-established, well known basketball school where we could raise a lot of future talent. So firstly we started to work with our main team, creating the basketball icon for the local youth and I think after this season we would be able to progress to the basketball school stage.” Challenges “If all our plans will go successfully, in 5 years’ time we definitely will be in need of a big home venue, where we could start to play at the highest possible level. Of course all projects must have funds and after five years they should be big enough to proceed with all of it. I think in term of club growth the challenges are always big, as tomorrows club needs always to be bigger than yesterdays. Otherwise we stop progressing.” Ambitions “We want to become England‘s Basketball League Division 1 (EBL) or even British Basketball League (BBL) club and perform in the international arenas. Basketball is the kind of sport that needs to be supported by sponsorship at any level – even famous Euro league teams are sponsored. So if we approach the right people at the right time and are able to build a good enough budget for the club, I can’t see why not?” www.sportip.co.uk 53