Sally Potocki
Sally Potocki (born 11 February 1989) is a retired Australian Indoor handball player who last played for Bayer Leverkusen in 1. Bundesliga and the Australian national team.
Sally Potocki | |||
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Personal information | |||
Born |
Melbourne, Australia | 11 February 1989||
Nationality | Australian | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Playing position | Left back | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | Bayer Leverkusen | ||
Senior clubs | |||
Years | Team | ||
2016–2019 | Bayer Leverkusen | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013–2019 | Australia | 32 | (157) |
During her time at BVB Dortmund Potocki captained the team. She was co-captained of Bayer Leverkusen.
She represented and captained Australia at the 2019 IHF world championships in Japan, she also participated in the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia and 2007 in France. In 2018 after a 6 years break from playing for Australia, she returned to the squad for the Asian Championships in Japan where she was the top scorer of the tournament and largely contributed to helping Australia qualify for their first World Championships since 2013. Potocki returned to Japan with the Australian team for the IHF World Championships 2019.[1][2]
Potocki previously played basketball professionally. Between 2007 and 2011, she played for the Sydney Uni Flames of the Australian Women's National Basketball League.[3] Potocki was also part of the Opal's squad.
In 2023 Potocki started playing Beach handball and represented Australia at the Oceanian Beach Handball Championships.
Statistics
Year | Club | Games played | 7m (scored/shot) | Total Goals | Yellow card | 2 minutes | Red card |
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2017–2018 | Bayer Leverkusen | 25 | 45/53 | 105 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
2016–2017 | Bayer Leverkusen | 25 | 8/12 | 58 | 14 | 11 | 0 |
2015–2016 | BVB Dortmund 09 | 26 | 1/1 | 29 | 12 | 13 | 0 |
2014–2015 | BVB Dortmund 09 | 22 | 20/26 | 100 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
2013–2014 | BVB Dortmund 09 | 27 | 1/1 | 89 | 20 | 12 | 0 |
References
- "Australia arrive in Japan for 24th IHF Women's World Championship". handballaustralia.org.au. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- 2019 World Women's Handball Championship squad
- Sally Potocki – WNBL