The 7th Women's U19 World Floorball Championship

The 7th Women's U19 World Floorball Championships will take place in Belleville, Ontario, Canada from the 4th to 8th of May at the Quinte Sport & Wellness Centre. Team USA plays in the B-Division, Group C with two other countries: Hungary ranked 8th and Austria ranked 12th.

USA Floorball, the governing body for floorball in the US recognized by the IFF (International Floorball Federation), decided quite early that it would attend the Women's U19 World Floorball Championships in Belleville, Canada. Officially the project was founded in June 2013. Since then a significant amount of work has been done in the effort to form the team and carry out the necessary preparations.

Building the team was quite an experience. The Women's U19 Team USA consists of 14 players. Half of the field players and one goalie, Anna Van Hercke, are from Colorado. The other goalkeeper, Nora Aron, is from Santa Cruz, California and remaining team lives in Sweden, Czech Republic and Belleville, Canada.

OBJECTIVES

As part of the tournament protocol, Floorball USA has released the first US National U19 Women's team player and attender list on the IFF web site. The objective of USA Floorball was to create the best possible team to represent the US while making a successful entrance among the best floorball countries of the world and offering a brilliant experience for the selected players.

Currently the team consist of 14 players and two coaches:

01 Van Hercke, Anna Goalkeeper
02 Stoll, Grace Defender
03 Helber, Alva Defender
06 Aron, Nora Goalkeeper
07 Lindberg, Christine Defender
08 Kostal, Andrea Forward
11 Bergstrom, Elisse Forward
15 Irwin, Braedyn Defender
16 Bannasch, Jasmine Forward
21 Nordqvist, Linnea Forward
22 Walker, Halle Forward
27 Viereck, Savannah Forward
33 Wiley, Julia Forward
63 Pennisi, Adelia Defender

Head Coach Tobias Hellqvist
Goalkeeper Coach Katariina Alongi

General Manager Anders Buvarp, who is excited about USA Floorball participating in the Women's U19 World Chamipionships for the first time, has succeeded in selecting a competitive group of floorball players for the tournament. The rest of the attenders are Susanna Donofry (Team Manager), Ann Lovgren (Equipment Manager), Kate Nemeckova (Physio) and Tapio Hämeen-Anttila (Media / Photography).

Our team page: http://www.usafloorball.org/national-teams/u19-womens/

B-division schedule: http://floorball.org/pages/EN/Womens-U19-WFC-2016

NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE

To ensure a successful tournament, we need your help. Please visit the team page and/or help with the team fundraising campaign, which can be found at:

https://www.rallyme.com/rallies/3391/wu19teamusa