Women's ice hockey

Hardly any ice time: Eagles eat up kilometers!

Coach Eva-Maria Verworner and her Eagles will commute to Berchtesgaden and Gmunden.(Bild: Tröster Andreas)

Summertime is travel time! This is especially true for the Salzburg Eagles. Because the women's team, which continues to compete in the reformed European Women's Hockey League, has hardly any ice time in the ice arena in the Volksgarten.

"The fact that we have too few ice surfaces in Salzburg is nothing new. But it's particularly bad for us in the ice arena at the moment," moans Elfi Verworner, chairwoman of the women's ice hockey team. "Unfortunate things have come together. Red Bull bought in a lot of ice time, then we only found out in July that the local council was reducing the number of ice masters in the summer and that the times after 6 p.m., which are important for us, were being cut."

 As a result, the team is currently commuting for training - to Gmunden or Berchtesgaden. "But the ice arena is also making an effort: "We're juggling what we can." Until things relax from mid-October. "That's when the second plate goes into operation."

One thing is certain: "We won't let it get us down," says Eagles head coach Eva-Maria Verworner. Her squad of 22 girls is set. Zoey Hobitsch, Hanna and Pia Obermayr (U18) are three new national team players. Like Alexandra Tomasova (Slovakia/U18) and the USA imports Taylor Zahirnyi and Meagan Byrum. The duo will play in Salzburg on Monday.