Kim Ewanovich Blog#20

Hello from the Zurich airport!!!

So i spent this week visiting where i first started playing in Europe. I moved to Molde, Norway in 2006 and played for the club there for three years. Tord and i arrived in Molde on Monday evening after a day of flying and spent a nice quiet night at home with his family.

The next few days were spent training with my old club and visiting friends. The trainings were good and it was nice to see some of my friends again. We decided to take advantage of the nice Molde weather and go cross country skiing, i wouldn't say i'm a horrible skier but i'm no expert. After about the first hr i was going down a hill (with my skies in the man made grove) the path curved to the right and i tried to slow down but couldn't. The path for my outside left ski faded and my ski slipped off the path and i started falling, my right ski stayed in the grove and in turn i twisted my knee (the one i had surgery on 4 years ago). Sooooo that put a big damper on the whole trip and my training with Molde. :(

I knew after twisting my knee that i had not done any real damage to it (cause lets face it, i'm an expert at it now) so i was not so worried but still took the rest of the week off handball in hopes to start training with my club again tonight.

I had a chance to watch my old team, and the guys team play their games on sunday. In both the girls and the guys games Molde won, scoring over 45 goals in each game and not letting the other team score more then 25.

A week might seem like a long time to visit and catch up with friends but it really wasn't, i didn't get a chance to see some people i would have liked to see but overall i really enjoyed the trip.

AC is coming to visit my starting on friday, so that's what i'm now looking forward to. For those of you that don't know who AC is, she is a good friend on mine that plays on the national team and is currently going to school in Spain. She will be staying with me till tuesday. :)

I don't have a game this weekend but we will start training again tonight to prepare for the game in 2 weeks.

Bisous

Kimberley

Kim Ewanovich Blog#19

Hello,
This week we had a very important (must win) away game on sunday so the club decided that we would stay in a hotel saturday so that we would not have to wake up at 6am sunday to make it to the game sunday night. This proved insufficient because we lost the game by 9 (17-26 against a bad team). We were goal to goal with the team until all the turnovers and missed shots caught up with us with about 20 min left giving the other team the chance to pull away.
I played okay in the game but left the court feeling worse then ever, i may have played okay but i really felt like my team let me down. There had to have been more then 15 fast breaks though out the game, and even more 6m shots, many girls just gave up.
To make matters more stressful i had the president and coach of a D2 club come to scout me (and i knew they were going to be there) so i really tried to play 130% the whole game, but after so many 6m shots and your team giving up, it's really hard to stay positive for the whole 60 min.
After the game i went straight for the showers, i needed time to cool down after the game and then i decided what ever happens happens. The coach and president stayed behind to talk to me and they said they saw potential in me and wanted me for next season (but were still going to talk to another goalie in a few days). They needed to make sure their more needed positions were filled before they could come at me with an money offer. They said i should hear from them in the next few weeks.
After the loss we headed back to La Crau and i got home at about 11pm sunday night, i ate, packed, and had a few hrs of sleep then Tord and i were off to Nice to catch the plane to Norway.
After a long few days with little sleep i'm very tired but excited to be back in Molde for a week (city of my old handball club from 2 years ago). I hope to train a few times with the molde girls and catch up with some friends i have not seen in almost 2 years.
Hope everybody has a good week.
Bisous

Kim Ewanovich Blog#18

Hello all,
Not to much to say for this week as we didn't have a game, but practices were good. Because of my back not getting better i was asked by my coach to only train with La Crau this week, i told him i would think about it. But after thinking a little about it, when it comes down to it, i need to practice with the Toulon team. Their intensity and speed help me so much as a goalie that i couldn't pass up training with them and even picked up an extra practice with them this past week.
The search for a new club is going okay, i have received a few e-mails and calls of interested coaches. Some offers are very interesting for me but not so interesting for Tord, and vice versa, so the search continues.
These next few weeks are going to be busy for me. My team plays a game on sunday but we will leave saturday afternoon and spend the night in a hotel, in hopes of being able to sleep in on sunday instead of leaving super early to make it to the game on sunday night. I will then get home around 3 in the morning on monday and have only a few hrs to sleep (or pack) because Tord and i are going to Norway for a week and will leave from Nice at 7:30 in the morning. We will have to be at the airport around 6:30, and its about an 1.5 hrs of driving to the airport so we will be leaving our place around 5 in the morning. After spending a week in Norway and visiting with friends, (soon to be) family and old teammates, we will head back to France where we will have a few days to catch up on some sleep before my friend (AC, who is going to school in Spain) comes to visit for the weekend.
In March, my club only has a game on the 13th so it gives me the chance to do a little sightseeing and visiting :) if i'm lucky (with the weather) i can start hitting the beach again really soon and get my tan on!!
Bisous
Kimberley