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City of Portsmouth College and Portsmouth Force announce new Level 3 BTEC Elite Basketball course
The News, Portsmouth
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17/10/2024
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What we've started is quite a unique opportunity for kids in Portsmouth that want to get themselves
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interested in basketball and take that to the next level and do it at college. So we
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are bringing in next year the Elite Basketball Programme, which will be based out of the
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hybrid campus here, which gives students an opportunity to combine their academics with
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their playing abilities in basketball. So the course will be split 50-50, you'll have
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10 hours of basketball delivery and 10 hours of basketball course delivery, so a little
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bit more academic with some sports science, nutrition, anatomy and physiology, but everything
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will be linked around basketball.
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Obviously it's not the sort of course that you've run before, so you've got a similar
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football course?
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Yeah, so we run the Elite Football Course, which has been hugely successful with hundreds
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of kids coming through the programme over the years, and there was just a gap in the
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market really for a basketball provision which supports the development of basketball players
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to be able to create a career for them in basketball. Obviously one of the biggest things
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is it's still the equivalent of 3A level, so students can still go to university with
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the outcome of the course, but there's a lot of opportunities around coaching, playing
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analysis and to create other jobs.
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We've got the Open Evening on Wednesday and Thursday this week, where you can come and
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speak to us as lecturers and the people that run the sports courses. So to find out a little
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bit more about the basketball course in itself, in addition we're running the Taser event
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on Tuesday 27th October, where any Year 11 players can come in and find out a little
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bit more about it.
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A few years ago Rob, who set up Portsmouth Force, came to us and said he wanted to create
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a pathway which enabled students to have an opportunity to progress into the Force team
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at the men's level. We've always supported the junior side, so we've been in partnership
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with them for a number of years, working with kids aged 4 to 18 and then having a pathway
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to the college, but now the pathway is a little bit more structured in the fact of now that
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you can progress straight into a basketball qualification that's being run here and it
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is completely unique. The only other course like this is at Itching in Southampton, so
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to have something like this in the city, I do not wait to buy a football team in Portsmouth.
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So we've got Portsmouth Force, we've got a national team in Division 3. How important
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is it to the club to have this type of course and this type of partnership with the college?
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I think it's really important. I think we're at a really crucial kind of time to try and
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represent Portsmouth basketball outside of Portsmouth. I see a lot of basketball players
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from around the country, so it's now great that we can have our own identity. So again,
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anyone who's potentially knocking on the door of making a playing career for themselves
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who originate from Portsmouth, you have to send them elsewhere. So now we have the opportunity
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to train them in-house. But again, it's not just about a playing career. Through the course
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there are other avenues. We're trying to teach these young guys how to find a man and how
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to look for jobs, etc. If basketball is the thing that they love, there are other careers of it.
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