Researchers investigate need for infrastructure at basketball and volleyball clubs

While the Belgian Cats women’s basketball team have qualified gloriously for the Olympics in Paris this summer, Flemish clubs are having difficulty training new talent. That is the finding of Prof Inge Derom and doctoral candidate Kari Descheemaeker, of the Sport & Society research group at the VUB. Commissioned by sports federations Basketbal Vlaanderen and Volley Vlaanderen, they investigated the needs of sports clubs regarding infrastructure and the current and future growth of basketball and volleyball in Flanders.

The research consisted of two tasks. First, analysing existing data about membership of Basketbal Vlaanderen and Volley Vlaanderen. ...