Founder and Director

Kenneth used to be a sports teacher in Belgium while also working as a missionary for an American Missions organisation. Kenneth moved to South Africa from Belgium in 2017 with a dream to make a difference in the life’s of young people. With a passion for leadership and sport, he decided to start the Hoopstad Sport Academy in 2018. Kenneth has a degree in sports teaching and personal training, and coached youth basketball at a high level in Belgium This background has helped him to use the power of sport to make a difference in young people’s life. Kenneth is the head coach of the soccer project and at the head of the board of directors.

Director

Hannelie orignally from Kempton Park, Johannesburg, moved to Hoopstad in 2018. Her life vision has always been to develop leadership skills in adolescents through the mechanism of sport, never really knowing how or when this would play out to become a reality until she joined the academy in 2022. Netball has always been a main interest and passion. She started off her career as administrator at the university of Pretoria’s netball club and was also the coach of the junior clinic and Tuks2 Netball team. Thereafter she has worked in the corporate world for a sports marketing agency, being mainly involved in event management for a number of different sporting codes. Hannelie charts the course of the academy together with Kenneth and is the head of the netball project.

Board of Directors

Our board of directors contains people from Hoopstad, with all of them having very different jobs in life from farmer to pastor, but all have a heart for the community and a desire to make a change.
Their job is supporting the academy with fundraising and giving oversight and accountability to make sure the whole organisation stays on vision