Article by Jo Kilby - Team GB Quarterback
We’ve got a good team developing, some incumbents from our very first (5-a-side) outing are still on board and firing on all cylinders and across the course of last and this summer some awesome new talent has arrived, including primed athletes from other sports, who know all about strategic and explosive physicality, so hats off to the world of rugby and ice hockey in helping to contribute to our team.
It’s all starting to hot up now. GB’s squad for the European Championships has been
finalised and communicated and that’s it, 45 of us (plus staff) are off in just
over a month’s time to take part in IFAF’s
inaugural and ground-breaking women’s American football tournament. Just over a
month….it’s not long is it?
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I can’t go into specifics, of course, about what our
preparations will look like, but needless to say it will be intense and
structured to enable us to compete rather than just participate. That being said we know we have a massive
task ahead of us in taking on both the Germans,
for the opening game of the WHOLE tournament! And indeed Sweden, who I think it’s fair to say will be a dramatically
different team to the one we played and beat in September 2014. Both nations
have a much greater history in the sport than GB, by a long way, but that will
only spur us on and as I’ve said before there’s nothing quite like a David and Goliath challenge to set the
games alight, and being the underdog is always fun.
As for the squad – I’m excited.
We’ve got a good team developing, some incumbents from our very first (5-a-side) outing are still on board and firing on all cylinders and across the course of last and this summer some awesome new talent has arrived, including primed athletes from other sports, who know all about strategic and explosive physicality, so hats off to the world of rugby and ice hockey in helping to contribute to our team.
It’s great to see too so many different club names on the
roster sheet. Of course I’m a little Birmingham
biased, but when all is said and done, once our Lions, Braves, Tornadoes, Warriors, Steelers, Romans, Titans, Carnegie and
Thrashers decals come off our lids
we’re all just one team, Lions yes,
but of the Great Britain variety
now.
So in the immediacy, what now? Well personally I’m looking
forward to getting to know my new team-mates, these next few months will be an
incredible journey for all of us, whatever happens, and I for one, can’t wait
for Championship Day 1 to be just around the corner, and with that in mind: its
43 days and counting GB, 43 days and counting…
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