Dear Arribans,
The first super-super-Saturday is in the books! And what a Saturday it was. 4 home games and (spoiler-alert) 4 wins!
Last week
The day started off with our Ladies 2 against Twente Buzzards. Some great plays on offense and a lot of steals on defense had Arriba catch on fire in the second half. Final score: 57-28.
Next up: Gents 2! Read more.
Dear Arribans,
After a year of no competition, the games finally started again! In this weekly roundup you will find a short summary of all Arriba games of last week, as well as upcoming games for the next weekend!
Last week
Gents 3 had their first game on Friday and managed to win 61-65 against Amical after a thrilling overtime game.
On Saturday there were 2 away and 2 home games. Read more.
Yesterday, the board and Menno had an exciting conversation with Ronald van Dam about how we, as an association, try to keep our members active during corona! We hope to inspire and motivate other associations to remain as active as possible as well!
Read the article via the link below!
https://www.basketball.nl/nieuwsoverzicht/hoe-arriba-in-coronatijd-een-actieve-basketbalvereniging-is-gebleven/ Read more.
Regardless of the developments of the novel coronavirus, students are always craving social interactions. When the members of Arriba cannot get together physically, they will work hard to organise alternatives.
The annual team presentations, which are normally hosted in the Vestingbar also had to undergo the shift towards an online alternative. Read more.
The 20th of September Arriba, together with Jugglers, organized a large 3×3 tournament. This tournament has been included in the national 3×3 Tour, which is quite awesome. For the tournament this meant that there were not only teams from this region, but also international teams and a teams from Rotterdam.
There were lots of enthusiastic Arriba members who either joined the tournament of volunteered before, during or afterwards. Read more.
Dear (future) Arribans,
It was great to see so many people showing up at the intro practices! Next week our normal practices start, the practice schedule can be found on the site: https://dbvarriba.nl/practice-schedule/
The plan for next week is as follows:
- The people that will play for Gents 1 and Ladies 1 already know this, they will go to the Gents 1/Ladies 1 practices.
This will be the practise scheme for just the 1st week (So from the 30th of August till the 3rd of September).
Monday: 18:00 Ladies 1 (SC4)
21:45 Gents –Gents 1, 2 and 3 (SC1)
Tuesday: 18:00 Intropractise Ladies (SC4)
19:30 Intropractise Gents (SC4)
Wednesday: 18:00 Recreationals (SC2)
18:00 Gents 1 (SC2)
Thursday: 18:00 Intropractise Gents (SC4)
18:00 Ladies 1 (SC2)
19:30 Intropractise Ladies (SC4) Read more.
Dear Arribans,
Last weekend all the teams had a game. The Ladies played on Friday against Tonego 65′ VSE 1 who were undefeated until our Ladies won a tremendous game and won 53-51. The next day Gents 2 unfortunately lost in overtime against the Twente Buzzards MSE 2 who are ranked in the lower bottom of the standings. That same day Gents 3 played against S.V.Z.W. Read more.