Inline hockey in Namibia
Inline hockey is one of the growing sports in Namibia and is particularly popular among German-Namibians .
history
The entire sport of inline hockey in Namibia has only developed since 1995 when Swakopmund Danie Holloway returned from the USA with a pair of inline skates . He came across exciting and interested faces when he showed his friends Knolles Green, Russell Vinjevoldt and Tina Green these inline skates. Since there were no inline skates on the Namibian market, the Swakopmund friends looked around for a supplier in South Africa and found one. You soon noticed the versatility of these skates and so, among other things, broom sticks were used as hockey sticks. Knolles Green and Russell Vinjevoldt tried to find out more about inline hockey and immediately put the theory into practice. The street corner at the Greens House was increasingly flooded with inline hockey enthusiasts. The popularity of this sport grew until the first inline hockey club in Namibia was founded in Swakopmund with the Coastal Pirates . In 1996, the Namibia Inline Skating Association (NISA) was founded as the umbrella organization for inline hockey in Namibia. It was renamed the Namibian Ice and Inline Hockey Association (NIIHA) in 2005.
societies
There are currently five clubs in Namibia that are organized under the umbrella of the Namibia Ice and InLine Hockey Association (NIIHA). With around 120 members, the Coastal Pirates are the largest association. There are also a few other clubs that operate the sport semi-professionally .
Association
Main article : Namibia Ice and InLine Hockey Association
The umbrella organization for Namibian inline hockey is the Namibia Ice and InLine Hockey Association .
Game operation
Every year, in addition to smaller tournaments for the individual clubs, there is also a tournament for the Namibian championship for all age groups. The tournament always takes place at the end of August in the hometown of Namibian inline hockey in Swakopmund . The venue of the Kamikaze of the German Gymnastics and Sports Association is one of the most modern halls in Africa.
National team
Main article : Namibian national inline hockey team
The national team of Namibia took part in an inline hockey world championship for the first time in Finland in 2005 , and in Hungary for the second time in 2007 . However, she was relegated to the B pool at the 2007 World Cup in Germany .
Women's inline hockey
The history of Namibian women's inline hockey is even more recent than that of men. Since 2000 there have been associations with women's departments (Coastal Pirates, Scorpions, Cazadores and Badgers) as well as an all-women association, the Assenheim Patriots .
2008 took Namibia national inline hockey team of women for the first time at the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship of FIRS in Dusseldorf part. In 2013 the team reached the 8th place. In 2014 they reached the sixth place among 16 teams.
Individual evidence
- ↑ THE INTRODUCTION OF INLINE HOCKEY TO NAMIBIA coastalpiratesswakopmund.com
- ↑ New surface at DTS ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ 2013 Women Senior Inline Hockey World Championship FIRS. worldinlinehockey.org, July 20, 2013 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 23, 2013
