Our EOSSAA CHAMPION team from 2011

Season opener count down

The season is coming up really fast we have been out side for the past two weeks and the team looking really great. Our first tackling session was yester day and I felt that the Jr. are going to be ready for their first game coming up.

But for the Sr. team we have to hold of to our first tournament of the season on April Fri 13^th. This was a point last year were we didn’t do so well, we had teams under seatmate us because it was the first time in a few years we haven’t won the season opener. I know our fellow ravels have been playing and practicing hard but we will be ready to fight through another season. We will work hard then last season and take every step forward to we meet our apposing team at the KASSAA finals.  I can’t wait for the first game of the season. GO HAWKS GO 

RUGBY SEASON HERE

RUGBY SEASON FINALY STARTED.  Indoor training started last week on Monday we had a very slow start the first week with no new players. But to my surprise yester day I walked into a gym full of new faces. It was the first time for me to be a leader and to really be a reason for new girls to like this game. I can still remember my Jr. year all the Sr. girls were mean and very scary. But last year out team became a family and is looking forward to passing that on to the future hawks.

The most important thing I want to pass on to the new hawks is positive attitude, not matter what happens on the pitch you be positive.  Last year was a big learning curve and we hope to continue to develop skills.  I really hope we can pass on the positive point so we can carry on the 10 out of 11 KASSAA record champion.  

THE BEST  MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

Negative Energy

Fitness is everything when you play sport and rugby is defiantly one of the most active sports out there. You play 45 minutes haves where you constantly have to excel your self-forward from a run to sprint. Then using all your strength to make and brake tackles and rucks. To add to if once you’re removed in a half you cant be put back in the game. So there is no coming off to rest for a few minutes then back out to play. This is a game of fitness witch I’m lacking at the moment.

I have never been so unfit in my life and it is so hard to become motivated to become fit when it so hard to revisers bad habits. I start indoor training in a less then a month and I’m not anywhere close to being ready.

Training is really hard on my body and my knee I always in pain after coming home from the gym. I hate having to work twice as hard to get the same results as someone else. I know I sound supper negative but I really am. But unlike other negative people I want to use it for my advantage. I want to force my self to work hard, to believe I need to work harder to be at the same level as the team.

Switching Intimidation for Team work

Intimidation is one of the best things you can have when playing a contacted sport like rugby. My favor team in rugby is the New Zealand All blacks males rugby team they have defiantly perfected intimidation. For anyone that does not know a thing about rugby or the teams the All Black are ten time winners of the World cup.  

But they have really taken the intimidation factor to heart before every international game the whole team go and perform a Haka worrier dance. They stand on the pitch and scream at the top of their lungs and dance.

As a golden hawk I can relate to intimidation maybe not to the point the All Black have perfected but good enough. In the KASSAA league my past and present lady hawks have taken the championship dozens of times. At the moment holding the championship for numerous years in a row. We as hawk have used this to are advantage for years and will contain to do so.

Last year we faced for the first time of never having a single grade 12 lady hawk on are team. We where constantly forced to work on fundaments such a team work, positive attitude and responsibility because we had lost the “size” we used in the past. NDSS always had the biggest, fasted and best player in the KASSA bored to last year. We were a team of no “size”. For the first time NDSS was a small time in Size and numbers. But through out the season we had an up hill battle on how to overcome this. We became a fast team and a family. We built on become a team and working together.

By the end of the season we had developed a chemistry that was real and will carry on through to our up coming season in 2012.

Here is a video of the HAKA   

Dreams

Last night was the first time I have had a nightmare about reinjuring my knee in almost six months. In my nightmare I was back at my first game I played last season. It was at Queens out door turf and our last game of our season opener tournament. The rain was coming down so hard I could barley see up the pitch form the water hitting off my face.

In my dream I was standing on the cold raining pitch unable to see more then a few feet in front of me. I started to run for the try line with out any of my fellow lady hawks around. Out of nowhere I was blind sided with a tackle to my right knee then another from the left at the same time.

I woke up before I hit the ground in my dream; my knee was in so much pain that it felt I had tour my ligaments again. My whole body was stiff with fear as I slowly sat up in my bed to look at my knee. It seem my fears haven’t passed even after three years.