{"id":28556,"date":"2015-11-17T11:28:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T11:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=28556"},"modified":"2015-11-17T11:28:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T11:28:24","slug":"cardiff-student-joins-welsh-korfball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/11\/17\/cardiff-student-joins-welsh-korfball-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff student joins Welsh korfball team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A\u00a0Cardiff University student is about to go national with a quite niche sport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Will Hayward has recently joined the Welsh korfball team. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s a fitting tribute to the work\u00a0the\u00a0Masters in News Journalism student has done to promote\u00a0korfball in Cardiff.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Korfball-team.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-28608 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Korfball-team.jpg\" alt=\"Korfball team\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Korfball-team.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Korfball-team-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Korfball-team-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Korfball-team-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28608 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Korfball-team.jpg\" alt=\"Korfball team\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Korfball-team.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Korfball-team-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Korfball-team-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Korfball-team-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Cardiff Raptors Korfball team. Will is third from right, bottom row.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI first got involved with the sport at Cardiff University seven years ago,\u201d says Will, originally from Northampton. &#8220;I loved it. In 2011 I started my own club <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchero.com\/clubs\/cardiffraptorskorfballclub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiff Raptors<\/a>, which now has three teams.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His appointment comes after a spell of injuries\u00a0following the 2011 World Championships in China. \u201cI\u00a0got injured just after I got back. I\u00a0was\u00a0having surgery\u00a0until the end of last year. I want to start regularly in time for the European championships next year.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This video by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NinhLyUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ninh Ly<\/a>\u00a0should explain it a little further.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" title=\"The Rules of Korfball (Korfbal) - EXPLAINED!\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GUtJB5jBOis?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"The Rules of Korfball (Korfbal) - EXPLAINED!\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GUtJB5jBOis?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will has previously played for Cardiff Raptors team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":29003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1850,4987,57,4237,4988,1861],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-life","tag-basketball","tag-cardiff-raptors","tag-cardiff-university","tag-korfball","tag-netball","tag-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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