Hello,
This past week was busy but very good for me.
Both goalies from Toulon were sick so the coach asked me if i could have 2 additional practices with his team, i of course said yes. So monday i had practice with my club, tuesday i had 2 trainings with Toulon, wednesday i had one practice with Toulon and one with my club, thursday i had one training with Toulon and friday one training with my club. Needless to say i was very sore at the end of the week, and to top it off i got a charlie horse on monday during the warm up of one of my practices so my leg was hurting most of the week but i couldn't not go to the extra practices. The thursday practice for Toulon was mostly position shooting for the players with different situations (from 9m, with/without a block, going to the outside/inside, stemshot) which was great for me until i got smoked in the face from the left back at 6m. It was not really her fault because i fell into it and i got right back up but with her average shot being about 70km/hr i spent the rest of the night with a major headache laying in bed. :)
The highlight of this week came on saturday when we played an away game vs Val De Leysse. Although i didn't enjoy the 6 hr bus ride to get there i did enjoy the 20-13 victory.
This game was especially hard for the team because due to some events that happened last week, another girl (very good player in offence and defence) from our team quit.
The game started off slow with us struggling a lot on offence and ending the 1st half with a score of 6-5 for us, luckily we ended the game stronger then we had started.
Our stats guy came up to me after the game and showed me that the other team shot 33 times and 13 of those shots went in, meaning i saved 20 shots (where my team gained possession after) as well as i saved 2/2 in penalty shots.
I don't hear what other ppl say about our team but i guess "fans" have been talking about all the problems we are having with girls quitting and how our team is falling apart, and so this win was not only important for us in the stats but also to show to everybody that even with girls quitting and only one sub on the bench we can still win handball games.
The president of our club has a daughter who plays in Div 2 in France and she is dating Xavier Barachet, a left handed right back who plays for Chambery (Div 1, best team in France). He also plays for the France National team and now has the title of being a Handball World Champion. Anyways, he happened to be watching our game on saturday so after the game (although i felt like a huge dork) i went and asked for a picture with him for the intent of putting it up on this blog (I'm a dork).
Sunday was a day of sleeping in and doing nothing because i didn't get home from the game till 5am sunday morning.
I hope everybody enjoyed the Superbowl, the game started at half past midnight here in France and i stayed up for the (very disappointing) half time show at 2am then went to bed.
Congrats to Gummersbach Jr Women and Pax Jr Men for winning Jr league.
Bisous
Kimberley
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