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Penzbergerin Hannah Finke: 25, second division, burned out

2021-01-11T10:34:40.618Z


She is 25 years old, plays successfully in the second national basketball league - and now presses the pause button: Hannah Finke from Penzberg needs a break from competitive sports. Even though she is in her prime.


She is 25 years old, plays successfully in the second national basketball league - and now presses the pause button: Hannah Finke from Penzberg needs a break from competitive sports.

Even though she is in her prime.

Penzberg / Mainz

- In football, a story like the one Hannah Finke experiences would be inconceivable.

To give up a second division career for a social job that steals strength and time?

Then welcome to the world of women's basketball, which has as much to do with professional sport as soccer is in the national league.

Nobody is well paid here.

If anyone receives any money at all for their services, it is import players who come from either America or Eastern Europe in basketball - to send them off right away.

Hannah Finke was a second division basketball player in a division that struggled for the public, sponsors and perception.

For her, the years in Mainz and Bad Homburg Hobby were at a really good level.

And it has also developed splendidly.

She got seven points on average in the most successful season.

For someone who has not oriented her life around basketball and studied on the side, this is a rather rare and extraordinary career.

Too ambitious for the regional league

But now Hannah Finke has got out.

At 25, actually in her prime, the Penzberg woman pressed the pause button in her basketball career.

She has already been deleted from the ASC Mainz squad on the official association website.

Some of the club tried to get them excited about at least a few appearances in the reserve - at least regional league.

But Hannah Finke emphasizes: “I'm still at the point where I'm too ambitious for that.” Either second division or nothing at all.

She can always try it out later.

Preferably with her sister Leonie, who plays in the regional league in Hamburg, and most of all in the south, in Penzberg or the surrounding area.

"The desire to play with Leni is great," says the winger.

She visited her sister, watched her play and felt that "my fingers are still tingling".

Leni has to take the first step and move back to Bavaria, she jokes.

So that something happens with the basketball duet of the two Finke sisters.

Hannah Finke has lived in Mainz for seven years.

She has a family there, a friend she lives with and a job that challenges her.

She supports five families from less stable backgrounds in everyday life.

At least with all the stress that made her break, she got rid of the weekend services.

On weekdays she “never came home before 10 p.m.” anyway.

She drove straight into the hall from work.

“That was a lot of stress.

The pressure to perform has robbed the fun. "

Expectations sprout like daisies

No matter how little money goes into women's basketball: as soon as it comes to euros, expectations sprout like daisies.

Not all of the import players helped the young Germans, but instead gave them looks that suggested boredom.

"I'm actually very happy that I can sit out and not see the drama." Corona has caused the schedule to be postponed.

Only professional athletes are allowed to train.

The ASC has already changed coaches and fired players.

It was really busy in Mainz.

But Hannah Finke also noticed how much she missed team cohesion.

How missing the teammates you see more often than your friends.

“I'm following it and I miss it.” She'll be back next year - with a footnote: If everything goes smoothly.

The people of Mainz will be happy.

Finke, usually on the field for around 20 minutes, is considered a high-class defender, even if the job is ungrateful "because you don't read it in the statistics".

How well she is doing is also shown by the decision of the coaches in the preseason to suddenly let her defend herself under the basket with only 1.74 meters in height.

That robbed her of “a lot of strength and fun” because she is actually a basketball player who lives from her pace.

Her ball handling has improved a lot, as has her overview, and she has also learned a few tricks.

Now she has more than a year to generate what is most important: strength.

Because at 25 it is still too early to end your career.

More sport from the region:


The corona pandemic is slowing down sport: The bowling season in the national leagues was canceled.

A restart will only take place in autumn.

The women's team at FC Seeshaupt is also affected.


Ice hockey player Simon Mayr from Obersöchering is one of the big names in the SC Riessersee team.

Corona creates very special circumstances - also when it comes to its operations.


Climbing on the rock - Martina Demmel doesn't do that for long, but she does it very well.

The Böbingerin (19) has already caused quite a stir in the scene.

Source: merkur

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