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A NEW basketball club is to be launched in Haverhill in January to help raise the profile of the sport in the town.
England basketball coach Michael Ball brought two top players along to Haverhill for a basketball extravaganza aimed to launch a new junior club in the town.
Ball is England Ladies under-17 coach for the sport and 100 children aged nine to 13 attended the event at Haverhill Leisure Centre.
On hand to demonstrate their skills were England player Catherine Brownsell and Leroy Griffin, who lives in Haverhill and plays for London Towers.
Ball is basketball development officer for Suffolk and arranged the event along with St Edmundsbury Borough Council.
Youngsters took part in a musical workshop, skills sessions, games on a league basis and a shoot-out competition won by Floyd Austin, from Castle Hill Middle School.
Richard Neal, who teaches PE at Parkway Middle School, said the event was very successful and a parents meeting would take place in the next couple of weeks to arrange helpers to run the club when it starts in January.
"It was excellent, the best ever," said Neal. "To see 100 children in the sports hall was a delight and they were really involved in what they were doing. We want to raise the profile of basketball in the town."
The club is planned to start at the Leisure Centre in January on Thursdays between 4-6pm and anyone wanting more information should ask at the centre or ring Michael Ball on (01473) 296409.
Picture caption: ON THE BALL . . . Parkway Middle School pupils took part in a recent inter-schools basketball tournament.