[nabs-l] Starting a collegiate goalball league.

[Anna Givens]

What is USABA?  And can u explain what goal ball is exactly?  Then I will try to think of ideas.

Anna E Givens

On Jul 30, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Last week I met a guy who is in my state's division of USABA, and as
> we were talking I told him I went to school in a city which has two
> pretty big colleges.  The city south and the city north of there both
> have goalball teams and leagues, but that city does not.  We discussed
> setting up an inter-collegiate league since the state college has a
> fair amount of blind students, and we'd try to get sighted students to
> fill in since I'm one of two blind students in my university.  I have
> a few questions and would appreciate any feedback or advice on them.
> I know there are some colleges like one in Oregon that have goalball
> leagues, and am wondering if anyone one the list is, has, or knows
> someone I could talk to from there about starting up; what are some
> strategies for marketing goalball to sighted students who have never
> heard of it before and might be reluctant to forfeit their eyes for a
> little while; and if you know a sighted person who plays, what drew
> them in and got them interested in the game?  The plan is to open the
> league to general community members if needed, but we like the college
> format and would like to try that first.  Again, any advice or
> suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> Kaiti
> 
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