Naomi A'asa

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Naomi A'asa
Beach handball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics - Girls Preliminary Round - CRO-ASA 059 (cropped) .jpg
Player information
Full name Naomi Matauanaeta A'asa
birthday February 8, 2000
place of birth Pago Pago, American SamoaSamoa AmericanAmerican Samoa 
citizenship
height 163 cm
Playing position Far right
  Far left
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)
Samoa AmericanAmerican Samoa American Samoa

Naomi Matauanaeta A'asa (born February 8, 2000 in Pago Pago ) is an American-Samoan beach handball player .

Naomi A'asa starts for the CaBoom Athletic Club of Ili'ili . The winger belongs to the founding generation of handball, especially beach handball, in American Samoa. She was part of the squad of her association that won the title at the U-17 Oceania Beach Handball Championships against the favored Australian team and thus qualified for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games . In Buenos Aires , too, A'asa was part of the squad that finished eleventh. For 2018 she was named Junior Sportswoman of the Year in American Samoa.

Naomi A'asa on the throw against Croatia in the preliminary round of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games

The following year, A'asa 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 team from American Samoa only had to admit defeat to Australia and won not only against the representation of the Cook Islands , but also the team from New Zealand . In 2018 she won silver at the Oceania Championships with the American Samoas national team against Australia.

Since September 2019, A'asa has also been the trainer of the newly founded U15 girls' beach handball team of their association, together with Philomena Tofaeono , as well as the head coach of the U16 national team. Here she is supported by the senior national coach Carl Sagapolutele Floor , she in turn is his assistant coach for the U-16 boys. A'asa is also a level 1 certified beach handball referee and certified level 1 trainer for indoor handball.

Web links

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Single receipts

  1. ↑ U17 Beach Handball Boys and Girls claimsoft gold sliver at Oceania Champs (English)
  2. ↑ Our beach handball team to Argentina 2018 (English)
  3. ↑ Detailed statistics of the Youth Olympic Games (English)
  4. ↑ Message (English)
  5. ↑ Beach Handball - Oceania Qualifiers & Aust Champs 2019
  6. ↑ CJ Sagapolutele Floor Sr. Accessed on 15 September 2019 .
  7. ↑ Oceania U16 Beach Handball Championships postponed for second time. April 20, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME A'asa, Naomi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES A'asa, Naomi Matauanaeta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Samoan beach handball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Pago Pago