MORE THAN JUST A GAME

A great chat with Janel and Dakota about their experience with handball, from Janel playing since 2010 with Alberta and watching the program grow, to pan-am games and still having many goals in handball to reach. Dakota has not been playing as long but we chat about 4 years in the program and his experience with Alberta and National team and his goals. We chat about a lot more including their new dog and what is in the future for them.

Note: a little update at the start about covid 


Alberta Team Handball is a non-for-profit organisation out of Alberta, Canada

NOTE: for 40 seconds is lily trying to figure out how to use zoom, so I had to keep it in the podcast. 

Had a great chat with two incredible handball players in our provincial team program Lily To and Dawn Song. We chat about their experience so far with ATHF and all of their trips, we then get into their future goals playing handball. chat about the women program and the leaders we have and if they consider themselves as leaders.  We talk about a lot more and was a great time for myself having time to chat with them.  

Alberta Team Handball is a not-for-profit organisation out of Alberta, Canada Had a chat with our ATHF President on the podcast to talk about his career in handball from Jr High School- to Sr National Teams as a player and then coaching our Provincial Jr Men's team to 4 Gold Medals at Nationals.  We had a discussion about ATHF-CTHF issues,  and talk about our future with CTHF which will no longer be until change come. We get into the topics of the AGM, Selection of National Team Players and Coaches, Development of Referees and Coaches at the National Level, Only way to be apart of the national team is to be on a private National Team Facebook page for men, and if not, you have no chance to be selected. National Team selection should be an open process.   ATHF will continue to work to help our athletes reach the highest level from National team to playing oversees but its time for us to do what right and see a change in CTHF.   Please go on CTHF website/ Social Media and see the last time something productive was on their page that was not shared. If you go onto their website there is no process of selection for National team. You can not find any bylaws or any kind of procedures on their website as well.  

Zoran is no question the best handball player in the last  25 years in Canada (my time Frame) Zoran was my first coach outside of school handball and was the reason I fell in love with handball and wanted to make it my career.   We chat about his career in handball from Yugoslavia to Canada and playing and coaching career with Alberta and Team Canada. We also have a chat about handball in Alberta in the past 25 years and as well  issues with National teams, World Championships and much more 

A great chat with Jackson on how his 1st 2 weeks has been in his 2nd year in Skjern HC. We talk about living experience, training schedule and daily routine. 

I met Michi at the 2020 Cal cup when I saw her wearing FÜXXE BERLIN sweats and it was a club I coached at. I asked Michi to be on the podcast as she is a huge part of the growth of SF CalHeat and Beach Handball in the USA as well as the Asst coach of the women's National Team. With ATHF emergence in Beach Handball and Michi helping us behind the scenes we chat about her involvement with Calheat and continue to get into Beach handball and a chance of it being an Olympic sport and a lot more 

Had a great chat with Brian Coughlin from Innovation Physical Therapy Namao https://innovationphysio.com/ about coming back to sports after Covid and how to make sure you are doing the most you can with injury prevention especially on shoulders and knees

A great chat with John Stevenson from https://zoneperformance.ca/ . Where they use the most current evidence-based strategies and cutting-edge technology to maximize your health, brain performance, as well as optimize the overall quality of your life. We also talk how to implement all of that into handball. 

One of the great leaders and goalie from Alberta, We chat about all of his experience with Alberta travelling around the world and his experiences with Canada. We go on to talk about Tyler playing in Denmark. We finish off talking about why he walk away from Handball and if he had any regrets.

I had a great chat learning more about former USA Jr Handball National Team player/ Detroit handball club founder Joey Williams. I have been watching him from his time in Denmark on his vlog to now his podcast.  Found it great learning more about his journey in handball and we also got into the difference of how sports organizations work in both countries. I ask him many questions about how USA handball works and how Detroit handball works.