Dutch Polocrosse Association was founded august 2005

Introduction
The Dutch Polocrosse Association was founded august 2005. Richard and Martine Griffiths started en made contact with Jouke and Rob Huisman, Thomas Bakker and Fleur Bartels. Their initial training ground was in Bennekom, near Wageningen. Here is where still the national trainings take place. Gradually Polocrosse in Holland attracted more people. The starting group was reinforced by Marieke Smallegange, Marja van den Boogaard, Florien Luitse and Willemijn Schipper. Berend, Marjan, Nicky and many others followed and are playing frequently or incidentally. Unfortunately Richard and Martine emigrated to Australia July 2006. But this did not stop the evolution of Polocrosse in Holland. The international contacts with Peter Cross (Pennine Polocrosse Club), Shelley King, Jason Webb, The French from the Espace Equestre Henson, the Germans from Hannover, Marie Schuster from Germany, Dutch Anja from Paris, Belgium Sophie Deurinckx are valuable and very much appreciated.

We hope that the development of Polocrosse in Holland will continue growing. On the 30th of April the International Polocrosse Council approved the associate membership of the Netherlands to the I.P.C. A milestone for the Dutch. They were present, with Zambia and France, at the Club Carnival during the World cup 2007 in Warwick Australia. And now they are looking forward to the next World cup 2011 in the U.K.!

The site Polocrosse.nl
This internet site is of course mainly for the Dutch who are interested in Polocrosse and who we would like to become players and members of our Polocrosse Association. Therefore the basic language of this site is Dutch. But photo’s, video’s, I.P.C. rules and links are all easy accessible in this site and do not make any knowledge of the Dutch Language necessary.

See you!
We are looking forward to meet you on Polocrosse playgrounds all over the world. Our Polocrosse skills are not perfect, but our enthusiasm is large! We hope you will enjoy visiting this site. If you find anything incorrect or adjustable…. or your club is not mentioned on the links page….. please inform me, as webmaster of this site.

The international contacts are organized by Fleur Bartels. If you would like to leave her a message, please mail to info@polocrosse.nl

Yours faithfully, Maarten Luitse, chairman of the Dutch Polocrosse Association (Polocrosse Vereniging Nederland)