Norwich Ice Korfball Club

3 Peaks Challenge

2010-12-03T05:09:00.000-08:00

At 5pm on Monday the 23rd of August a small team of 6 including 4 from Norwich Ice stood at the bottom of a cold, wet and misty mountain. Ben Nevis in Scotland was to be our starting point for the 3 Peaks – a challenge to climb the tallest peaks of Scotland, England and Wales in under 24 hours.

The heavy rain and thick fog on Ben Nevis, coupled with the fading light made conditions on the first mountain challenging. We completed the round trip in 7 hours and once down we jumped in the mini-bus for the long overnight journey down to England’s highest peak – Scafell Pike, trying to grab as much sleep as possible en-route. We arrived at daybreak and set off immediately, the weather was once again appalling with plenty of rain and hail and thick fog once more at the top. After stopping at the top for a quick photo we made our descent and jumped in the van for the shorter journey to the last mountain. The final peak was Wales’ offering of Mount Snowdon. Dosed up on Lucozade tablets, the team headed up the Pyg track with conditions at the top again not looking favourable. We were met with gale force winds and zero visibility at the peak and after a few quick photos we started the trip down. A (very) short jog toward the end stopped the clock at 27 hours and 38 minutes for a journey taking in 25 miles of walking, 10,000 feet of climbing, 450 miles of driving and one big bag of wet walking gear. In total, the team raised £700 for the East Anglian Air Ambulance and £1,200 for St. David’s Children Society, an adoption agency in Wales. Thank you to everyone that kindly donated. Next up for some of Ice is cycling Lands End to John O’ Groats and walking Hadrian’s Wall in 2011. Talk to Neil if you are interested in getting involved in either.

Awards to Date (Aug 2010)

2010-08-31T05:40:00.000-07:00

League Placings
NKA
Division 1
—2006 – 3rd
—2007 – 2nd
—2008 – 2nd
—2009 – 2nd
—2010 – 2nd
Division 2
—2006 – 5th
—2007 – 5th
—2008 – 1st
—2009 – 2nd
—2010 – 1st
Division 3
—2010 – 1st
MRL
—2009 – 2nd
SERL
Division 2
—2010 – 2nd

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Tournament Wins
2005
—18th in a Belgium tournament (still our biggest trophy!)
2008
—Stingers
—Littleport
—Nottingham – won the pool
2009
—UEA
—Stingers
—Littleport – Most Sporting
—Bristol – Plate winners
2010
—UEA
—Littleport
—Bristol
—Norfolk Div 2

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Individual Titles
NKA Most Valuable Female
2009 – Rachel Payne
NKA Most Improved Female
2008 – Zoe Sprakes
2009 – Hannah Driver
NKA Best Ref
2010 – Neil Wakefield
NKA Top Male Goal Scorer
2008 – Paul Beale
2009 – Paul Beale
2010 – Paul Beale
NKA Top Female Goal Scorer
2010 – Rachel Payne
NKA Most Improved Ref
2010 – Adam Knights

End of the Summer Season

2010-08-31T05:38:00.000-07:00

Another summer season done with a good haul of silverware. Ice travelled to 6 tournaments including Bristol and Milton Keynes. It was brilliant to see a big mix of players at all the tournaments a couple times managing to field 2 teams.
Ice also picked up awards at the annual NKA Ball. Neil Wakefield received Best Ref, Paul Beale and Rachel Payne received top goal scorers male and female respectively of the NKA Division 1 and Adam Knights received the most improved Ref award. An excellent end to a brilliant season for Ice.
Ice 1 were runners up in the NKA Div1 and SERL2, Ice 2 won the NKA Div2, Ice 3 won the NKA Div3. So this coming season we have 1 team in SERL1, 2 in NKA Div1 and 1 in NKA Div3. It will prove to be a difficult season for all teams.
Training starts 1st Sept with several new faces in the mix. All are looking forward to what we hope will be another great season for Ice.

2010-01-25T10:54:00.000-08:00

Wow, after such a wholesome and long blog from our head coach Neil I have obviously been a little overawed and not written anything for the past few months.

Ice have carried on doing well in all of their matches. The SERL squad have played some awesome korf to be top of the SERL Div2, the first team have played well to enjoy top spot over the Xmas period. Ice 2 have tough competition and are in 3 place at the moment with plently of time for a fighting comeback. Ice 3 are also top of their division after some epic searches from Adam to find new players to make legal teams!

A massive thank you goes to the 3 team coaches - Neil, Pauly and Adam for their committment to their teams, the hard work and stress that always comes with being a coach! We're currently looking at new ways of boosting our coaches and training sessions to push the teams even more.

Now that the busy Xmas period is over we'll be getting socials going again and there's a long list of ideas waiting in the sidelines - more ideas welcome!

Summer tournaments have aready started to be organised so dust off your tents and air those sleeping bags as Ice will be heading off around the country to have some fun!

See you at training, Rach

An Ice cool start to the season

2009-10-15T09:16:00.000-07:00

What a cracking start to the season! All three Ice teams have been blazing their own Ice trails in their respective leagues so far this season - with maximum points all round! A more relaxed out-take on the season as a whole and more focused weekly training sessions have produced three teams that have not only built on last season but are all displaying a more refined and balanced attitude all round and much improvement.

Ice 3 have benefited from the arrival of a few new players and have come together as a team very quickly. In their first ever competitive match against Norwich City 6, Ice 3 were laying up to play a player short but upon discovery of their opponents illegal team, Ice 3 could settle into the game knowing that the points were already won. A solid performance was still put in by all and the match was comfortably won (result will stand as a 5-0 victory). The third teams second game was against UEA 3 - last seasons division winners so a tough match was expected. This was made even tougher by the fact that we had to play a player short to ensure our teams legality and therefore qualify for promotion should we end up as division winners. The team battled hard against a UEA team in determined mood, and ran out eventual winners at 8-7. Two wins from two for our thirds in their very first season.

Ice 2 is proving to be the most competitive of our teams so far this season with most of the club in contention for a place! Hopefully proving not too much of a headache for the coach. Narrowly missing out on a chance to play at the top level last season merely by a golden goal in extra time in the division 1/division 2 play-off match, Ice 2 will look to gain automatic promotion this season. Ice 2 have only had one competitive match so far this season and looked very comfortable against a Dragons 2 team filled with division 1 experience. The team had no problems with goals as they may have done in seasons past and thumped 9 of them past the Dragons conceding just 1 in the final stages. A fantastic start and a great base to build on in the coming matches, against Stingers 2 and City 3.

Ice 1 started the season slowly as usual with a tense game against Dragons 1. The team found goals hard to come by and could only manage to stay level as half time closed in. The second half was a much better display as the team blew the cob-webs away and ended the game comfortable winners at 8-4. After a shakey start like that, it was not pleasing to see Knights 2 on the fixtures list for the following week - especially with several of the team expressing their fitness concerns from various bugs and colds throughout the weeks build-up. It was therefore pleasing to see a relaxed and confident performance from the first team throughout the game. With all the pressure on our opponents this time round, a stark contrast to last seasons title decider, Ice led the match from the first goal and nearly always had their noses in front. The teams seemed almost evenly matched throughout but a brilliant performance from the first team girls tipped the balance and finally proved the difference with Ice 1 running out victors by 2. A real quality display of fast flowing, attacking korfball. Ice 1 can now look forward to a SERL meet against Dragons and Ely Vikings, followed by league matches in the following weeks against Norwich City 2 and UEA 1.

Well done to everyone involved in all three teams, particularly Paul and Adam as second and third team coaches (keep up the good work), and I hope you are all enjoying the season as much as I am (and I can’t even play yet!). With the SERL division 2 start looming and some more testing matches for all our teams - we all have plenty to look forward to.

Neil

14th at the Nottingham tournament

2009-08-11T01:12:00.000-07:00

Well done to everyone who played at the weekend, 14th out of 25 isn't bad at all.

It was nice to have a full team of girls with thanks to Emily from UEA and our dutch superstar Gabrielle. Thanks to you both you were brilliant.

Everyone put in some solid performances, the atmosphere was fantastic as was the weather. A special thanks goes to Birmingham and Leeds for lending us players for most of the day. However we did return the favour with all the girls and boys playing their fair share of extra games.

The social was great with Ice dressed up as action heroes and Jack as Leo the Lion (very clever). The girls all made fab Lara Croft's and the boys' Indiana Jones effort we decided was a lot more Brokeback Mountain.

Good luck to everyone playing in Sandwich next weekend, I am very jealous and sad that I can't make it!

Jen xxx

Knights Outdoor Tournament

2009-07-12T08:28:00.001-07:00

Well done to everyone who played at the Knights tournie last weekend. With two teams it's the most teams we've have at a tournament. Was good to have old players playing back with us again.

Ice 1 were only beaten by the eventual winners of the tournament.

Ice 2 held their own with some very worn out girls against some hard teams.

The weather was so so hot with some pink noses at the social. The social was great fun with some interesting commando moves by Neil.

Thanks to everyone involved, see you at Milton Keynes this Sat.

Rach

Norwich Ice's guide to fashion

2009-06-29T10:57:00.000-07:00

Wear pleated EVERYTHING! And accessorise a floral maxi dress with a crochet hat

High waisted skirts and shoulder pads are all the rage right now

Outfit pictured currently available from Primark

Make your dress out of your nan's curtains or, alternatively, join a convent, I'm pretty sure you get the outfit for free that way!

Meet the parents

Grow a beard for the occasion

Always accessorise with a seahorse bag called Steve

Avoid spillage on new pink skirt and remember it's better to wax your chest the night before you don your favourite dress to avoid redness

Dress a kiwi in an Australian rugby kit. They love it!

Remember extra socks!

Ahoy there sailor ;)

Well done Pauly B for a fab charity shop social and I'm sure all of us are looking forward to the 'revenge' charity shop social you are planning.

Thanks to all those who came to the AGM and the social, I'm sure you will agree it was a great night. News from the AGM coming soon!

Jen x

Our new blog!

2009-06-25T07:56:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the all new Norwich Ice Korfball Blog! Here we will be sharing all our shenanigans and news. This will hopefully be a really easy way to keep everyone updated.

As you can see from the links on the left Rach and I have been spreading ourselves around the internet quite shamelessly! Flickr will soon be available for everyone to upload their Ice photos to so bare with me on that one!

I hope you all like the blog!

Jen x