GHHC Groningen is the winner of this yr’s Administrators’ Trophy. The northerners acquired this award Saturday on the KNHB Normal Assembly. Along with everlasting glory, the membership acquired a examine price 5,000 euros.
Groningen acquired essentially the most votes of the three nominated groups. Lochem and Hoorn have been the opposite golf equipment that stood an opportunity of profitable the trophy. The theme of this yr’s Administrators’ Trophy was recruiting and retaining youth members. Groningen tackled that in its personal method. Along with structural recruitment via elementary faculty, an try was made to recruit extra boy members via a so-called “multisport strategy.
Groningen President Sebastian Monteban and KNHB Board Member Victor Brouwer. Photograph: Koen Suyk
‘The membership combines direct recruitment campaigns with initiatives that make the game extra enticing and accessible. This leads not solely to extra consumption, but additionally to a stronger youth schooling and a better degree inside the area. The annual decline of two p.c has been transformed to an (anticipated) membership development of 4 p.c,” the KNHB wrote within the “winners’ report.
Each the general public and all associations have been in a position to solid a vote. The general public’s votes counted twenty p.c. Throughout Saturday’s KNHB Normal Assembly, the board of all associations current may solid one vote. These votes counted eighty p.c. Lochem and Hoorn each received subject hockey clinics for 100 individuals.
