Vicky Alonso has always been a benchmark as a woman in wheelchair basketball and it was not easy for her to almost always have to live with boys and be the only girl in the locker room. For this reason, when he went to UCAM Murcia, what he found, among other things, was the possibility of having more women nearby.
What stands out the most about her is that she is a very fighter person, who believes a lot in what she wants to do and puts all the means to achieve it. I remember that she always picked me up to go to training the first year we met at Amfiv because at that time I still didn’t have a car and she, in addition to playing, worked and studied.
For the Spanish women’s chair basketball team, it is already a reward to have qualified for the Games and everything that comes to them will have a lot of merit. It is true that, since there is no only female competition, it is more difficult for the players to fit in. Some of them already know each other for being in the same team, but I think they lack one more point to be able to compete for medals at an international level. Even so, they are already close and if they follow the line of professionalization that the boys have followed, they will be even more so. In the end, it is a matter of the volume of players, that the coach has more to choose from, that the players have to win a position and that they take on a greater role in the league. Because if you are not a protagonist in your league, then it is much more difficult to perform in these championships. And they, when competing with the boys, have it more complicated. Some succeed, as has been the case with Shelley Cronau at Amfiv, but it is not easy.
For this reason, it has a huge merit that the women’s team has qualified for the quarterfinals and now let’s see if they are lucky and get into the fight for the medals. It will be difficult because Germany is a power, but if the game comes out embroidered and they do not have their day, they can try to pass. If not, being in quarters is already a success. And Vicky has had a lot to do with it, by personality, by status and by her ability to score and defend. He has always had a rebound and has ended up handling the chair well. It is a benchmark in every way.
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