Danielle Floor

Danielle Floor

Danielle Floor at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games Closing Ceremony
Player information
Full name	Danielle Patricia Floor
Nickname	"Hafling"
birthday	February 9, 2000
place of birth	Westbrookville, American Samoa
citizenship
height	170 cm
Playing position	Far left
	Far right
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	CaBoom Athletic Club of Ili'ili
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-	CaBoom Athletic Club of Ili'ili
National team
	Games (goals)
American Samoa

Danielle Patricia Floor (born February 9, 2000 in Westbrookville ) is an American-Samoan handball and beach handball player and wrestler .

Danielle Floor is the daughter of an American Samoan mother and an American father. She has two sisters and two brothers. The mother died early. At times she grew up in New York State . She comes from a very sporty family that has produced a large number of successful and professional athletes. In 2005, she began wrestling at Tri-State Wrestling in Port Jervis , where the Olympic champion in 1984 , Ed and Lou Banach , were active. In 2011 the family moved back to American Samoa. She starts for the CaBoom Athletic Club of Ili'ili . The defensive winger, like her twin sister Stephanie, belongs to the founding generation of handball, especially beach handball, in American Samoa, whose driving force is her father Carl Sagapolutele Floor . In addition to handball in the hall and in the beach version, Floor plays soccer and wrestles for Gannon University in Erie , Pennsylvania in the Gannon University Athletics team. Even the brother CJ Floor was a successful wrestler and had qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , but was not nominated because of disputes with the American-Samoan Federation. He was also trained by the father. After graduating from school in Lupelele in 2018 , the sisters received sports scholarships as wrestlers for Gannon University, which traditionally has a very strong wrestling team. Floor takes business as a major.

Danielle Floor (left) blocks the way for her sister (center) as her sister (center) plays against Turkey in the placement round at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games; on the right the father and trainer Carl Sagapolutele Floor

Floor was part of the squad of their association, which won the title at the U-17 Oceania Championships in beach handball against the favored Australian team and thus qualified for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games . Her performance on the defensive was emphasized positively; also because of this performance her sister could become the most successful and best player of the tournament. Also in Buenos Aires Floor was part of the squad that finished eleventh.

The following year Floor was part of the American Samoas senior team. At the continental championships of Oceania 2019 and the parallel Australian championships, in which the team from American Samoa competed as a club team, the team won the silver medals in both competitions. In the context of the continental championships, the American Samoa team only had to admit defeat to Australia and not only won against the representation of the Cook Islands , but also the team from New Zealand . At the Oceania Indoor Handball U19 Championships 2019 in Païta , New Caledonia , Floor and the American Samoas team competed in an indoor handball tournament for the first time. In preparation for wrestling, the twins also trained at the Gannon University Handball Club . A 23-10 opener win over Papua New Guinea was followed by a 27-16 win over Fiji . The third game against New Zealand was just lost 21-24. Against the hosts and eventual winners New Caledonia there was a bitter 13-33 defeat, the last game against Australia was clearly lost with 23-34. The loss in the last game brought New Zealand to bronze with an equal score, while the American Samoa team finished fourth.

Web links

Commons : Danielle Floor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Floor on the website of the Gannon University wrestling team

Single receipts

1. ↑ Gannon University wrestling squad
2. ↑ AMERICAN SAMOA'S CJ FLOOR QUALIFIES FOR SUMMER OLYMPICS IN LONDON. March 17, 2012, accessed May 3, 2020 . 
3. ↑ petition
4. ^ Floor's Olympic dreams take beating. June 20, 2012, accessed May 3, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Twin sisters from Am Samoa named to 2019 NWCA NCAA Individual Scholar All-Americans. June 14, 2019, accessed May 3, 2020 . 
6. ↑ U17 Beach Handball Boys and Girls claimsoft gold sliver at Oceania Champs (English)
7. ↑ Our beach handball team to Argentina 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2020 (American English). 
8. ↑ Female Athlete of 2017. April 7, 2018, accessed on May 3, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Detailed statistics of the Youth Olympic Games (English)
10. ↑ Beach Handball - Oceania Qualifiers & Aust Champs - 2019. Accessed May 3, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Hosts start strong at IHF Trophy - Oceania | IHF. Retrieved May 3, 2020 . 
12. ^ New Caledonia win IHF Trophy - Oceania titles | IHF. Retrieved May 3, 2020 . 
13. ^ AS U-19 Women's Handball Team places 4th at New Caledonia. August 19, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2020 .