A fixture among the "wild cats"

In contrast to football and ice hockey, the third division in handball is not considered a professional division.

That is why it is not allowed to play there during the corona lockdown.

This also applies to a woman from Weilheim.

Weilheim - In football and ice hockey, the third division is considered a professional division.

That is why it was allowed to play there during the corona lockdown.

With handball players, however, the situation is different.

In this sport, the state refused to classify the third division in the professional field.

Thus, the third division, including the women of the HSG Würm-Mitte, had to let the resinous ball rest.

In the meantime it is clear that the team from the Würmtal, where Simone Padberg from Weilheim plays, will not play any more games this season, as the association finally broke off the season in mid-February.

The 19-year-old is a fixture on the left in the third division promoted team, who took first place in the Bayern League with just one minus point in the 2019/20 season, which ended prematurely.

Simone Padberg is a goal guarantee at TSV Weilheim

In the 2017/18 season she played for her hometown club from the district town for the last time.

Although she was a young player, she quickly stood out from the Weilheim women's team.

Padberg did not shy away from a duel and was difficult to get under control of the opposing defense.

With 96 goals - the TSV handball players scored a total of 387 goals in 20 games - she was Weilheim's most successful goalscorer at the end of the season - even though she had only played 14 of the 20 games of the season.

"Simone's departure to Würm-Mitte is difficult to compensate for," said her coach at the time, Michael Sander, after the change from Padberg to HSG, which is based in Planegg and Graefelfing, was confirmed.

In the first season with the "Wildcats", as the HSG women call themselves, the woman from Weilheim was mainly involved with the A-Juniors in the youth Bundesliga. As a result, however, the tall player played her way into the squad of the first women's team at HSG, where she quickly became a regular. "I was well received and I like it here very much," says the right-hander, who scored 36 goals in 18 games in the Bayernliga championship season 2019/20.

In the three games of the very short and now canceled third division season, she did not succeed in scoring. Now the backcourt player, who now lives and works in Munich and who rarely comes to her old home, like all other handball players from the region, is waiting for the end of the corona restrictions, in order to then start training with renewed vigor and at some point too return to gaming operations.