Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Quickfire with Olovsson

As the playoffs for the Guinness Singapore Rugby Women’s XV 2009 looms, Sruwomens spoke to Susanne Olovsson, team manager cum forward from the Royal Selangor Club about the Dingoes and their challenege this weekend. Also a national prop for Sweden, Olovsson has been living and working in Malaysia since 2002.

How were the RSC Dingoes formed?

RSC Dingoes was formed in early 2008 by players from all walks of life who share a passion for rugby.

It was myself and the captain Wei that had a discussion due to so many girls was asking me if they could play contact somewhere as well. We kicked it off and it continued. The coaches that came on board last year have improved the consistency and sound planning needed to move forward.

The Dingoes have a good mix of both locals and foreigners between the ages of 16 - 35. Some of them have experiences in touch rugby; football (a few of whom are Malaysian national players), boxing, weightlifting and a handful are beginners in any form of contact sports.


How did RSC come to join the Singapore Women’s XV league and how have the Dingoes found it has found the NRC 15s league so far?


We( the coaches and me) were thinking how we could get the team to play games and eventually start a Malaysian league.

So I got this idea that we possibly could join the SRU league as in my other sport floorball, the Malaysian team joins the Singapore league as they didn’t have their own until now, so I contacted SRU if that could be a possibility.

The league has been exciting and a great learning curve for the future for these girls. Our goal before start of the league was, exposure to the game for the players and participation. Possibly one win.


What are RSC's expectations leading up to the playoffs against SRC this weekend?

Our goal now is to make it to the final as we believe that we have a good chance as the girls have improved enormously just during these few games. We are a different team coming into the playoffs then we were in the first game of the league when we played SRC.

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