VBS Pink Cup: over 150 basketball girls in Varese

Context

TL;DR

• 10 and 11 October: third edition of the VBS Pink Cup
• Over 150 girls in Varese
• Twelve teams in the Under 13 and Under 14 categories
• Matches at the Falaschi gym in Valle Olona

Key facts

• Organizer → Varese Basket School
• Dates → Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th October
• Participants → over 150 girls
• Format → twelve teams, Under 13 and Under 14 women
• Headquarters → Falaschi gym, Valle Olona

The third edition in Varese

On Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th October Varese will host the third edition of the VBS Pink Cup, an event dedicated to youth women's basketball and organized by the Varese Basket School. Over 150 girls are expected in the city on the weekend reserved for the Under 13 and Under 14 female categories.

The twelve teams involved will be divided between the two categories. The tournament will bring together ten clubs and participation will cross three Italian regions: in addition to the Lombard teams, two Ligurian clubs and one Tuscan club will arrive in Varese. The announced composition therefore offers a broad regional framework, while remaining focused on youth women's basketball.

The two-day pitch will be the Falaschi gym, in Valle Olona. Here the young basketball players will be involved in a full program of matches. The event is designed to allow the teams to compete on the parquet, but also to live an experience of sport and sociality, with the aim of offering the participants a moment of meeting.

The figure of over 150 participants is therefore accompanied by a precise formula: twelve teams, two categories and a single playing venue. With the VBS Pink Cup, youth women's basketball returns to Varese for a weekend of games. The program focuses on participation and comparison between the teams, together with the sporting and social dimension indicated for the event.

With this approach, the Falaschi gym becomes the common place for companies and girls from different backgrounds. The event remains linked to Varese, but its participation involves Lombardy, Liguria and Tuscany, as indicated by the organization. The program brings together the competitions and the presence of the participating companies.

Operational details

The companies represented

The Lombard presence includes VBS Varese Basket School, Hub del Sempione, Pro Patria, Olgiate Comasco, BFM Basket Femminile Milano, Basket Più Rezzato and OPSA Bresso. These are the companies indicated for Lombardy, supported by the Ligurian and Tuscan companies that complete participation in the Pink Cup.

For Liguria the tournament highlights New ABC Alassio and Amatori Scuola Basket Savona. Tuscany is instead represented by Affrico Firenze. The list brings the clubs represented to ten, while the teams involved are twelve and the categories remain two: Under 13 and Under 14 women.

The origin of the companies is one of the elements that characterizes the third edition. The participation crosses three Italian regions and brings Lombard teams to Varese together with two Ligurian clubs and a Tuscan club. The tournament is therefore not limited to the presence of the organizing company: the Varese Basket School is supported by a complex group of teams.

This structure gives the two days a dimension of meeting between different clubs, without separating it from the sporting field. The girls meet for a program of matches, while the names of the clubs show the territorial variety of the meeting. The tournament is thus placed in youth women's basketball and has participation spread across Lombardy, Liguria and Tuscany.

Alongside the competitive part, the event is also designed as a social experience. It is an objective indicated together with the comparison on the parquet and helps to read the presence of ten clubs not only as a numerical data, but as the structure of the match that the Varese Basket School organizes in Varese.

Key points

A tradition that continues in homes

The Pink Cup is not limited to matches: as has already happened in previous editions, the Varese Basket School entrusts its girls with welcoming athletes from Alassio into their homes.

The choice puts the young participants in direct contact and adds to the tournament a moment of meeting between clubs and girls. It is the right way to transform the event into a shared occasion, not just a match of matches at the Falaschi gym.

During the two days, therefore, the packed program of matches coexists with a form of hospitality organized by the Varese club. The presence in the girls' homes broadens the meaning of the initiative beyond the parquet, maintaining the connection with the sport and social experience expected for the young basketball players.

For athletes coming from Alassio, hospitality in the homes of the Varese Basket School accompanies participation in the tournament. For the girls from Varese, the same tradition creates the opportunity to share the days with athletes from Alassio. The event explicitly links this practice to the meeting between society and girls, in the name of youth women's basketball.

For the two days in Varese, the continuation of the event develops as follows: on the one hand the program on the field, on the other the hospitality that brings the relationship between the participants into the homes of the girls of the Varese society. The VBS Pink Cup retains an element already present in previous editions and combines it with the matches of the Under 13 and Under 14 female categories.

Source: varesenews.it