TBV Lemgo Lippe: Promoting young talent with ALPLA at a new height!

TBV Lemgo Lippe: Promoting young talent with ALPLA at a new height!

A breath of fresh air is blowing over handball in Lemgo! TBV Lemgo Lippe recently extended its partnership with co-sponsor ALPLA until at least 2027. This strong connection is not only visible through its presence on playing pants, in official clothing and on LED boards in the Phoenix Contact Arena, but also through closer cooperation in the area of ​​promoting young talent, such as newsgo.de reported.

ALPLA relies on a sustainable concept that aims to keep plastics in the recycling cycle. A special focus is on supporting young handball players in Lemgo, because ALPLA will not only be the presenting partner for the cup deposit donation, but will also double the donations collected for the club's youth department at the end of the season.

Intensive promotion of young talent

The company's role as an official training partner also includes a stand at the career information day to give the young players a perspective in their professional lives. The goal is clear: the training of young Lemgo handball players is taught and promoted at ALPLA.

Another exciting aspect of this partnership is the upcoming TBV Lemgo Lippe training camp in Hard, Austria, where ALPLA is headquartered. The team travels to prepare optimally for the upcoming season. They will also take part in the 2nd ALPLA Summer Cup, where they will start the race as defending champions lz.de explained.

Competitive sport and responsibility

Jürgen Brüggemann, Managing Director of the North Rhine-Westphalia Sports Foundation, also brings important points to the discussion about competitive sports and the development of young people. He emphasizes the need to combine competitive sport and education in order to convince parents of 13 to 14 year olds to support their children in competitive sport. Concerns that academic performance could suffer as a result are widespread, and it is important to create the right conditions deutschlandfunkkultur.de explained.

There are currently 18 sports schools in North Rhine-Westphalia in conjunction with sports boarding schools, where athletic training is combined with physical education in the fifth to seventh grades. Students between the ages of 15 and 18 should be given the opportunity to achieve both their high school diploma and their sporting ambitions, without one discipline affecting the other. The students' weekly workload is between 50 and 60 hours.

The connection between competitive sport and education is a central topic, not only for TBV Lemgo Lippe, but also for the future generation of athletes in the region. This synergy will be crucial in order to promote young talents while not losing sight of their academic careers.