Tremendous Success This Season for “FK Ķekava/AXA” Supported by Rīgas Dzirnavnieks

Tremendous Success This Season for “FK Ķekava/AXA” Supported by Rīgas Dzirnavnieks

The women’s floorball team “FK Ķekava/AXA” is enjoying great success this season and currently stands in second place in the women’s top division. The players from Ķekava recently made headlines by defeating the six-time Latvian champions “Rubene”. The goal of “FK Ķekava/AXA” this season is to fight for a medal, possibly even gold.

So far, “FK Ķekava/AXA” have won all seven of their games, including two victories over the last year’s champions “Rubene”. The proportion of goals of the Ķekava team this season is 37:21, Dace Āboliņa being the best scorer. For four years in a row the floorball players of Ķekava have been improving their performance, and this can be attributed to the determined work of the management of the club, the coach Andis Blinds and, of course, the players themselves. The management of the team says that it is the mutual synergy, strong cooperation and the professional attitude of the team that lies behind its strength.

According to the team, a key factor to success, in addition to good physical and psychological preparation, is a portion of healthy cereal products provided by the team’s supporter “Rīgas Dzirnavnieks” as a part of daily nutrition. To ensure sufficient energy and stamina during the tough practice and the intense fights for victory, the players of Ķekava use AXA cereal products in their daily diet. They contain valuable hydrocarbons which produce glucose in the body, providing long-lasting energy which is essential during prolonged physical and emotional strain. In addition to sustained energy, cereal products also provide invaluable improvement of metabolism as they contain fibre and other valuable nutrients.

Women’s floorball is well-known in Ķekava for more than 15 years, but the most important achievements have been taking place in recent years. The events took a sharp turn in the 2007/2008 season when the floorball club “Ķekava” was officially founded and the management instructed the new coach Artis Drēziņš to ensure a promotion from the first league. This goal was successfully achieved. In the 2008/2009 season Andis Blinds was appointed as the coach. The team secured its place in the top division by taking 6th place. In the 2009/2010 season the Ķekava ladies were already competing for medals, but finally conceded the third place to the RSU team in the added time of the deciding match. The 2010/2011 season has begun on an unexpectedly hopeful note – seven victories in the first seven games. It is significant that in recent years women’s floorball attracts many new players who show great results. A first for the Ķekava women’s floorball team happened in 2008, when Gundega Vancāne represented the Latvian national team in the world championships. Currently there are at least five ladies from Ķekava who could be candidates to the adults’ national team and two to the junior team.

“Rīgas Dzirnavnieks” actively supports sports and promotes healthy lifestyle among youth by supporting the initiatives of several organisations and also carrying out common activities together with athletes. “Rīgas Dzirnavnieks” has been running the “AXA Children Sports School” for more than a year already, organising visits to schools and sports clubs together with popular athletes. This gives the youngsters the chance to meet the most successful national athletes and receive inspiration from stories of real experience.
 

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