Back to GB Basketball :)

Today it all starts again!!  GB basketball has arrived and today, Saturday the 19th July, we begin our team camp in preparation for the Eurobasket 2009 Qualifiers.  

(Just a quick refresher for those who don't know, GB stands for Great Britain, and I am a member of the GB Senior National Team.  My awesome Mum is Scottish, (born and bred in Stirling to be exact, and then moved out to Australia when she was 5) and through this fact, it enables me to hold a UK passport as well, which then allows me to participate for the National team here.  The GB team consists of players from England, Scotland and Wales.  And as I've got some Scottish blood flowing through me, here I am :)  It is a huge opportunity for me, to have the chance to go to the 2012 Olympics,  and it was something that I could not turn down.  I am still and will always be a very proud Aussie, but I am also very proud to be a member of the GB team!  )

I'm sitting in my hotel room right now typing this out and I can't sleep.  Its just gone 6am, and my ride to Cardiff wont be here until 8am, but I can't sleep!!!  I'm not sure whether that's the fact that I'm quite possibly still feeling the effects of jet lag, or whether I'm just so excited to meet back up with all the GB girls.  I'm thinking its prob a bit of both!!  Last year was such a great experience for me, it was my first time with the team, and it def had its low points (injuring my groin and not being able to be out on court with the girls for the start of the program, and having to just sit on the sidelines and watch as the team got better and better each day, well that was tough).   To then being in the locker room in the Netherlands, spraying champagne around cause we had just achieved our goal of promotion to Division A, well that was definitely the best high!!

So I am def looking forward to today, the start of a new chapter.  There will be quite a few new faces, from staff to players, but we know that these new faces can only improve our team.  By no means do we think that the qualifiers will be a walk in the park, with teams such as Germany, Israel, Lithuania and Ukraine, how can it be!!  So here's to the beginning of a new chapter, one full of hard work, lots of sweat, and many, many good times and amazing memories, and the best one of all GREAT friendships  :)  In that photo from last year is: (L-R) Me, Lisa, Kristy, Georgia.