Meet Sheffield’s ‘Snakebite Korfball Club’!!

Our club has ex-Sheffield Hallam korfball players, ex-Sheffield Uni players, brand new never-played-sport-before-players, school students, university staff. You name it, we’ve probably got it! At Snakebite you can be as involved with the club as you like, from being a member of the committee and organising matches and socials, to just turning up once a week for training/matches.

Player Profiles

Name: Ian Standeven
Nickname: Audi
Year started playing korfball: On and off since 2002
First club: Keele University
Highest number goals scored in a match: 3 prolific
Highlight of korfball career: 9th at BUSA nationals in 2005?
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: 70's tennis player
Most stupid moment in korfball career:
Interesting fact: Maybe not the most interesting but still fact, Audi is short for Audi TT as I am tea-total

Name: Richard Wolfendale
Nickname: Wolfie
Year started playing korfball: 2004
First club: Snakebite KC
Highest number goals scored in a match: 6
Highlight of korfball career: Sheffield Tournament 2008 Champions
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: It has to be the 'Angel' when we were in Holland!!
Most stupid moment in korfball career: While playing outdoor in Hungary, getting hit in the face with the ball, then falling backwards and doing a backwards roll. I think it may have been alcohol induced.
Interesting fact: My team finished 18th (out of 18) at student nationals, in my one year as a student korfball player! A moment I am very proud of.

Name: Alice Fairhall
Nickname: Gnome
Year started playing korfball: 2002
First club: Sheffield Hallam University
Highest number goals scored in a match: 6
Highlight of korfball career: Winning nationals with Hallam Uni in 2004
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: Toga at a Moulin rouge night!
Most stupid moment in korfball career:
Interesting fact: I am actually average height for a fully grown woman (in the 1840s!)

Name: Chris Gibirdi
Nickname: Gibbs, Gibber
Year started playing korfball: 2005
First club: Sheffield Hallam Uni
Highest number goals scored in a match: 6
Highlight of korfball career: Winning 2nd Team Nationals at Hallam
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: Roman Warrior made out of cardboard and tin foil….epic.
Most stupid moment in korfball career: In my first ever game thinking that if I ran round the court like a mentalist, the fatman marking me would tire and I would then rinse his ass…
Interesting fact: Heres one for the squeamish, I can pop my hip out of the joint and back in…without pain!

Name: Emma Denny
Nickname: Denny
Year started playing korfball: 2003!! With a year out in 2006.
First club: Sheffield University
Highest number goals scored in a match: 4
Highlight of korfball career: I'm hoping it’s yet to come!
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: Dangermouse
Most stupid moment in korfball career: Deciding it was fine to have a house party the night before a korf tournament.
Interesting fact: Previously managed to get into a festival for free, disguised as a man called Steve.

Name: Hannah Smith
Nickname:
Year started playing korfball: 2006
First club: The university of manchester korfball club
Highest number goals scored in a match: 3
Highlight of korfball career: Atilla
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: french mime
Most stupid moment in korfball career:
Interesting fact: I am allergic to hyacinth bulbs and toothpaste

Name: Diana Maynard
Nickname: Di
Year started playing korfball: 2007
First club: Snakebite
Highest number goals scored in a match: 0
Highlight of korfball career: when I get my first goal!!!
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: Christmas tree as it's the only one I've worn!
Most stupid moment in korfball career: accidentally passing the ball to the ref (to be fair, he was wearing the same colour top as us!)
Interesting fact: approximately 8% of sheep are gay

Name: Claire Ryan
Nickname: Clairebear, Little Claire, Clairey-Fairy, Young ‘un
Year started playing korfball: 2007
First club: Snakebite KC
Highest number goals scored in a match: 1
Highlight of korfball career: Scoring my first ever goal which came as something of a surprise!
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: Golddigger- I made it an hour before I left the house n seemed to pull it off rather well! There’s a lot to be said for spur of the moment!
Most stupid moment in korfball career: My best moment and, simultaneously most stupid moment, was when I managed to score from the back corner of the court when carelessly throwing the ball somewhere into the vicinity of the court: and it actually ended up in the net! Sadly it was defended but it should’ve been allowed just out of pure skill, or at least for its comedy genius!
Interesting fact: Whilst travelling in South America I managed to get stranded for 4 hours on a floating reed island in Bolivia with the native Uros people who couldn’t speak a word of English. I managed to communicate with them using the little Spanish I knew, was sung to (“My Heart Will Go On” (Spanish version of course!), and was left in charge of a stall (or equivalent) selling tit-tat to tourists!!

Name: Ali Muir
Nickname:
Year started playing korfball: 2004
First club: Sheffield Uni
Highest number goals scored in a match: 4 (I think?!)
Highlight of korfball career: Playing in Attila (Holland)
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: The Incredibles (Sheffield tournament 2007 with Suze and Soph)
Most stupid moment in korfball career: Loads!
Interesting fact:

Name: Rupert Gardner
Nickname:
Year started playing korfball: 2008
First club: Snakebite KC
Highest number goals scored in a match: 1
Highlight of korfball career: Scoring and getting MVP in first match
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: Miami Vice
Most stupid moment in korfball career: Not been playing long enough to know!
Interesting fact:

Name: George Watkins
Nickname: Spade
Year started playing korfball: 2002
First club: Sheffield Hallam University Korfball Club
Highest number goals scored in a match: 3
Highlight of korfball career: Captaining Sheffield Hallam 2nds to 2nd team northern glory in 2004/5
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: Pirate (featuring the infamous spade)
Most stupid moment in korfball career: wearing a home made kilt to the edinburgh tournament
Interesting fact: won best bum at sixth form competition

Name:Lois Ovenden
Nickname: Several to do with my hair colour, Reddog, Ginge, etc but most people just call me Lo or Lolo.
Year started playing korfball:2003
First club: Sheffield University
Highest number goals scored in a match: 4/5?
Highlight of korfball career:Playing for Eindhoven team at Atilla tournament.
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social:Poison Ivy (Heroes and Villans)
Most stupid moment in korfball career: shooting at own korf when thinking I was attacking not defending, thankfully I missed.
Interesting fact:I got enganged at the source of the River Nile in Uganda and plan to move to Africa in 2010.

Name:Matthew Smith
Nickname:Mathers
Year started playing korfball:2006
First club: Sheffield Hallam III
Highest number goals scored in a match: 1 :(
Highlight of korfball career: Edinburgh Tournament 2007
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: Far too many to choose from, army nights have been pretty epic
Most stupid moment in korfball career: Scoring an own goal at varsity (rebounded off my hand during a collect)
Interesting fact: In 490 BCE, Pheidippides, a Greek soldier, ran from Marathon to Athens (about 25 miles) to inform the Athenians the outcome of the battle with invading Persians. The distance was filled with hills and other obstacles; thus Pheidippides arrived in Athens exhausted and with bleeding feet. After telling the townspeople of the Greeks\' success in the battle, Pheidippides fell to the ground dead. In 1896, at the first modern Olympic Games, held a race of approximately the same length in commemoration of Pheidippides.

Name: Tom Woodruff
Nickname: Little Tom
Year started playing korfball: 2004
First club: Sheffield Hallam Uni
Highest number goals scored in a match: 4
Highlight of korfball career: Being in Walkabout on the night of Hallam v Uni Varsity 2005 (obviously we won!!)
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: Homemade Pharaoh costume
Most stupid moment in korfball career: Missing all of Snakebite's league winning season because of breaking my finger, twice!!
Interesting fact: In Tunisia I walked across salt flats, rode 4x4's over mountains, rode a horse and cart through a date plantation and rode a camel across a desert - all in one day!!

Name: David Brown
Nickname: Billy
Year started playing korfball: 2006
First club: Snakebite through and through!
Highest number goals scored in a match: 1
Highlight of Korfball career: Winning games with the 3rd team, after playing together the whole season
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: Collier
Most stupid moment in korfball career: Deciding to continue playing after spraining my ankle. That or the numerous mistakes playing killer!
Interesting fact: Travel adventures include- I've slept rough with international people I just met in Barcelona and having beers with the Hungarian mafia in Budapest!

Name: Michael Upton
Nickname: None as yet.
Year started playing korfball: 2009!
First club: Snakebite
Highest number goals scored in a match: 1
Highlight of korfball career: Pathetic, and I hope this will change, but setting up a goal for Alice on my firsts debut.. Or maybe getting MVP in my second game.
Best fancy dress costume worn at a korfball social: N/A
Most stupid moment in korfball career: Plenty of material here already. Getting lost/stuck in traffic on my way to King Egberts and turning up 25 minutes late, thereby missing the start of the match. Oh, and falling over twice in the first five minutes of the aforementioned firsts debut, to the delight of my immediate opponent and the horror of my team-mates (will they ever pick me again?)
Interesting fact: About me? I won a prize at school for excellence in German, picked a German dictionary as the prize and dropped the subject altogether a few months later.