SA WOMEN DOING WELL AT WORLDS

U23 ladies and in the action photo is Zandrѐ (No 11) against Canada

The South African Women are doing well and are both lying 2^ndduring the round robin stages at the Underwater Hockey World Championships.

Online article at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sa-women-doing-well-worlds-zandre-coetzee

The tournament started on Friday, 14^thand the finals are on Saturday 22 July.  Games can be followed on http://tinyurl.com/hobartlive where they are live streamed as well as available afterwards. Full updated results are at https://sportsdesq.sportstg.com/portal/index.cfm?fuseaction=main&OrgID=10080

Previous articles about the SA Team at the Underwater Hockey World Championships are at:

1. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/family-matters-sa-underwater-hockey-zandre-coetzee
2. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sa-underwater-hockey-players-going-world-hobart-zandre-coetzee
3. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sa-teams-start-6-wins-worlds-zandre-coetzee

The SA U/19 Ladies (Current World Champions from the previous championships in 2015 in Spain, are lying second behind New Zealand after round 1 of a double round robin. They lost only to New Zealand (2-1) in the first round and are well placed for a favourable opponent in the playoffs.

The U/23 ladies are also lying second after 5 of their 7 round robin games. They lost 5-2 against New Zealand but have beat Argentinia, Canada, France and 2015 World Champions Columbia. They have tough games against Great Brittain and Australia on Tuesday and Wednesday and if they retain their 2^ndposition they will play off against the 7^thplace for a place in the semi finals.

Zandrѐ Coetzee from the SA U/23 ladies is currently the top goal scorer in the U/23 ladies group with 9 goals in 5 matches. Behind her is a player from New Zealand with 8 and then 2 more from New Zealand and Australia with 6 goals each and then her team mate and captain Eleanor de Kock and 2 other players with 5 goals. While Zandrѐ and the team play by the motto “individuals score goals but teams win championships”, the SA squad is very proud to top this table. The table is at https://sportsdesq.sportstg.com/portal/index.cfm?fuseaction=competition&competitionID=17465&OrgID=10080&clubOrganisationId=0#statistics

The men are having a tougher time and the U/19 men are currently lying 4th with the U/23 men in 5^thplace. Both still have a chance to proceed to the semi finals if they can stand their man in the tough end of the playoffs.

The finals are on Saturday 22 July

De Wet Coetzee (Parent)

Cell 072 024 9801

E-mail zandrewitblitz@gmail.com