![]() I have part of my family in France since my father Robert was French. „After having been elected Player of the Year for two years in a row in Sweden, I needed a new challenge. How did it feel like to be away from home as a teenager and play professionally in a foreign country? Your first international adventure was in France. I think I made 38 points in the last match and yes, I was elected Player of the Year in Sweden before my 16th birthday. In my hometown, Ängelholm, the memory of this Swedish Championship Gold will never fade. And we did it! I smashed in 15-10 in the 5th set and my sister was jumping up to the roof of joy. In the last match of the Final, we lost the first two sets, and then we decided that we must turn it around, we just couldn’t lose this one after 36 victories and just one to go. We had so much fun that year, and our team made a new record in Sweden: We didn’t lose a single match in the whole season. ![]() My sister Anna was also on the team, and we had a great setter Hannah Allison from the US. The year after, you can say I was warming up, and I wanted to make a difference. ![]() I started in EVS (my home club) elite already the year before, when I was 14, but then I didn’t get so much play time. „Gradually, I got used to playing the matches in the Swedish elite. How do such a young person and a player feel to become the best volleyball player in her home country? In the end, we won this match and it was a big sensation.“Īlready at the age of 15, you won Player of the Year award in Sweden. Our team was about to lose the match, I came in and managed to make some quite good ’kills’ and bring some energy to the team. The real breakthrough was when I entered the match against Latvia. „I started in the Swedish senior national team at the age of 14, that’s true. You made your debut for the senior Sweden national team at the age of 14! How did it look like from your perspective? „Other sports… yes, some gymnastics when I was 4-8 years old, some dancing (believe it or not) and then some golf before I got fully occupied with the volleyball.“ The more spectators, the more fun!“ĭid you train some other sports discipline beside volleyball? We participated in different youth competitions all the time and I realized that I had a special ’gift’, transforming it into hard smashes and a big will to win. I was lucky to have the greatest coaches in Sweden, and I and my teammates had such fun on the court. After that, only the sky is going to be the limit to Haak!Īt what age did you discover your talent for volleyball? With them, she became the top scorer of the tournament at the mid-season, having huge chances to stay there until the end of the season. By playing with B é ziers Volley last season she definitely turned the spotlight on herself and got snatched by Serie A1 side Savino Del Bene Scandicci. Knowing the previously mentioned pace of her career, it was logical that Haak quickly upgraded it by moving to one of the best leagues in Europe – the French. Believe it or not, Haakmade her debut for the senior national team of Sweden when she was only 14! She won Player of the Year award in her home country when she was 15.
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