Estella Setting Standards

 

As the Bristol This Girl campaign goes from strength to strength, improving the access to sport and creating more options for women and girls, Storm’s Estella Maloney was selected to become one of the projects ambassadors.

Estella and the team of ambassadors will be seen touring the city with pop-up stands to increase the awareness of what is on offer for women and girls out there.

We have long been a big supporter of This Girl Can and we will continue to offer open sessions for all women and girls, whether you want to just role the ball out and have a laugh with your friends or play as competitively as you can we will do our best to cater for everyone.

  

Storming to the title

They did it.

After a long season the FireStorm team claimed the WEBBA League title with the only blip on the season an out of character defeat away to Swindon on a wet and windy Monday night.

The team finished the season with a 17 – 1 record, but very importantly for Coach also the best defensive record in the league.

‘We knew if we ran at teams for forty minutes we would have a good chance of winning, but we didnt want to just outscore people, we wanted to stop people from scoring and that mentality will definitely help the players grow when they move onto the next level, it is an old saying offence wins games but defence wins championships and our defence went a long way to securing the title for us.’ – Coach Brock

Having won the league title, FireStorm move onto the WEBBA Women’s Invitational Cup next month with the pool games at UWE, and then the Final at WISE in May.

 

 

 

England Return

Twelve weeks ago Kimberley Kheing rolled her ankle, but after the ‘normal’ two weeks the response had not been as good as usual, two weeks became four, four became six, and although obviously the player became frustrated she understood the long game and working with Storm’s Coaches Colbron & Brocklehurst and Bristol Physio’s Andy Howse.

It was tough for everyone to make the decision to shut her down for the season but we all understood at the end of the day she wanted to be ready and available for England, and it was our job to make sure that happened.

Rehabilitation was a long and sometimes lonely road, with lots of core work and swimming as a distraction, but it all proved worthwhile, because when England did come calling she was ready, and because Kim had maintained her fitness levels when she did step on the floor in Manchester for England she was able to compete.

The work continues over the summer, with the intention of being ready to lead Storm’s division one women in September.

 

Find It Film Festival

Bristol Storm’s womens and girls programmes were selected by the FindItFilm organisation to be in a film about the club and what it does.

The two days of filming were great fun and involved all the players senior and junior, the only shame about the whole thing is that we could not get hold of all the stuff that wasn’t used but the finished film was awesome.

You then move onto the main event the Find It Film Festival and it was brilliant obviously not because we were in it but because of all the inspiring films that were shown, and in some cases the adversity/challenges that people had to overcome to become successful, check out the Sportsister link below as it has links to the films.

A fantastic experience and amazing how natural some are infront of the camera.

Clips of filming

https://www.facebook.com/pg/finditfilm/videos/?ref=page_internal

Related articles

https://www.finditfilm.com/bristol

http://www.sportsister.com/2017/02/10/find-it-film-womens-sport-and-adventure-film-festival/