08 Stockholm Human Rights
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08 Stockholm Human Rights, is a Swedish basketball club that competes with both with both a men's and women's team in the country's highest elite divisions: Obol Basketball League and Damligan. The club was founded in 1996 under the name 08 Alvik Stockholm as a cooperation between 5 local stockholm area basketball clubs. Today the club is run as a cooperation between 08 Söder (KFUM Söder Basket) or South in english) and 08 Alvik (Alvik BK.), from the west side of Stockholm. In combination, the cooperation constitutes the largest club in Swedish basketball with 2500 basketball players plus coaches, administrators and management.
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[edit] 08 Stockholm: A Brief History
With the goal of building a stronger and more progressive basketball club together, Alvik BK and KFUM Söder created 08 Stockholm in 1996. Today, Alvik and Söder function as the foundation of the 08 Stockholm family and serve as mother clubs for the 08 men’s and women’s elite teams. The clubs formed an alliance for several reasons. The first was to decrease internal competition within a small geographic area, which could not support so many teams at the top level of Swedish basketball. The second was to create a stronger financial situation for each individual club by sharing the overall cost required to successfully drive a professional basketball operation in Sweden.
Lastly, the clubs wanted to allow for one part of the organization to focus on basketball’s elite level, so that the other parts could put their resources into recruiting and developing players. Sweden’s Largest Basketball Organization with more than 2,500 players, 250 coaches and 20 administrative workers, 08 Stockholm is the largest basektball organization in the country. Thanks to its size and winning history, the club has become one of Scandanavia’s most productive centers for talent development.
From its inception in 1996, 08 Stockholm’s human rights philosophy has centered on the idea of securing respectful relationships and integrating youth from different cultural, social and economic backgrounds through basketball. Today, the organization is composed of over 54 percent women and more than 70 different nationalities. Nearly one-third of the club’s 2500 members were born outside Sweden or have parents who were.
Basketball itself functions as a mechanism for integration in an environment that demands respect, teamwork, commitment, responsibility and quality. The sport is a powerful took for decreasing segregation at the socio-economic, race and gender levels, and for teaching values to young people.
[edit] A Winning Tradition
08 Stockholm has one team in each of the top divisions of Swedish men’s and women’s basketball: Basketligan (men) and Damligan (women). In 2001, 08 Stockholm secured double-gold, winning both the men’s and women’s league championships, and the women repeated with another league championship in 2003. Together with Alvik (est. 1956) and Söder (est. 1949), the 08 Stockholm family has won accombined 28 men’s Swedish league championships and three women’s league titles since 1954.
[edit] Championships Men
2001 08 Alvik-Stockholm 1995 Alvik Basket 1986 Alvik Basket 1983 Alvik Basket 1982 Alvik Basket 1981 Alvik Basket 1979 Alvik Basket 1977 Alvik Basket 1976 Alvik Basket 1975 Alvik Basket 1974 Alvik Basket 1972 Alvik Basket 1971 Alvik Basket 1970 Alvik Basket 1968 Alvik Basket 1967 Alvik Basket 1966 Alvik Basket 1965 Alvik Basket 1964 Alvik Basket 1963 Alvik Basket 1962 KFUM Söder 1961 KFUM Söder 1960 KFUM Söder 1959 KFUM Söder 1957 KFUM Söder 1956 KFUM Söder 1955 KFUM Söder 1954 KFUM Söder
[edit] Championships Women
2003 08 Alvik-Stockholm 2001 08 Alvik-Stockholm 1973 KFUM Söder
[edit] 08 Stockholm Leadership Profiles
Anders Grönlund, Chairman of the Board Kevin Ryan, General Manager Jonte Karlsson, Head Coach Men's Basketball Anders Härd, Head Coach Women's Basketball
[edit] Current Men's National Team Players:
Mikael Lindquist (pictured below), Olivier Ilunga, Thomas Massamba, Mattias Göransson, Joakim Blom Image:Micke shows heart.jpg
[edit] Other Key Players (Men):
Emmanuel 'D' Dies (pictured to below), Demetrius Brown [1] Image:D rebounds.jpg
[edit] Current Women's National Team Players:
Nina Bärlin, Jennie Thingwall, Agga Jablonska
[edit] Other Key Players (Women):
Malin Gernandt (pictured below), Erin Grant (Point Guard), Krista Rappahahn (Small Forward/Shooting Guard) [2] Image:Malin jump shot.jpg
[edit] 08 Values
08 Stockholm is know for its work with using basketball as a tool for social changes. The club's program is called 08 Values and is a social initiative built around five core values that lead to success on the basketball court and in life: Teamwork … Responsibility … Quality … Commitment …Respect. The program teaches that while these values are particularly important to the wellbeing of a sports team, they are even more useful as tools in the context of effective living. The 08 Values Program seeks to communicate this central message through three major vehicles, which are 08 Values Leadership/Role Model Education, 08 Values Community Involvement and 08 Values Kenya Project.
08 Values Education The purpose of 08 Values Education is two-fold. First, the program aims to better equip area club coaches through a leadership certification course. Coaches attend educational clinics, which are divided into a series of five courses over a two-week period with each one focusing on a different value. Secondly, role model training is designed to help coaches, especially younger coaches, use the 08 Values to become better role models for their players and also in their greater spheres of influence.
08 Values in the Community While leadership education concentrates on equipping coaches and players to practice and promote 08 Values, community involvement provides direct opportunities to reach youth. Currently and continuously, 08 is engaged in two main areas of community involvement, which will reach approximately 3,000 area youth this year.
08 Values - Kenya Project The project is a development cooperation between the club and Kenya Youth Sports Initiative which is based in Kendu Bay, Kenya. The project is as a support mechanism in the form of physical, financial and intellectual resources to help develop sports and culture in an area whose children have been deeply affected by widespread poverty and the AIDS epidemic.
“We in 08 Stockholm feel it is important for individuals to think globally and act locally,” General Manager Kevin Ryan said recently. “In doing so, the injustices in our collective society become easier to recognize, understand and take action against within one’s own community. Our engagement by using sports as a tool for social development in Kenya, and at home in Sweden, is an outward example of the club’s integral commitment to the human rights ideas of positive youth development and social integration.”
