ALTHOUGH the sport of korfball is more than 100 years old and is played in various countries around the world, it still remains in the shadow of its older American cousin - basketball.However, a former Brecon schoolgirl will be doing her best to raise the exposure of the mixed sex game when she competes for Wales at next month's 2011 World Korfball Championships in China.

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