Eyes are set on Seomara Sainz

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, September 6 2014 - Just before departing to Peru, Lizbeth Seomara Sainz looks forward for two important international competitions.

One of them is the FIVB Women’s World Championship to be played in Italy. The other one is the Women’s U23 Pan American Cup that starts in Peru.

“Seo”  - as She is known by her colleagues and friends - is only 18 years old, but has granted a special priviledge: to be part of the Age Group and Senior National teams. This is her fourth time in Peru, after playing the Womens U20 Pan Am Cup in 2011, The Latina Friendly Cup and The Women’s Pan American Cup, both of them in 2013.

A total of 8 teams compete at this Age Group Pan Am Cup that gives tickets to the II Edition of the FIVB Women’s U23 World Championship. The first one ever was celebrated in 2013 in Baja California, Mexico, where teams classified according to their FIVB ranking.

This time there will be a qualifying process and the U23 Pan Am Cup is part of it. This tournament is also a platform to prepare for the FIVB World Championship to be played in Italy in a couple of weeks for the Junior players that have been also considered to be part of the Senior Roster, that simultaneously holds a training camp at the Mexican Olympic Committee headquarters in Mexico City.

Being part of this process has been such a great motivation for Sainz. These two tournaments will be a great stage for the young talent formed and developed in Baja California, before reporting with the SC Potsdam of the German Bundesliga.

“I will report to my team after the end of the Italy World Championship,” She said. “I will not return to Mexico immediately, but one the most important clauses we agreed is to be back and compete at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz,” She exposed.

“I have played against various players that have also been signed by that team (the Potsdam) that is something that makes me keep calm”, Sainz added.

“Maybe there is some kind of rivalry for the position with a Czech player (Michala Kvapilova), however I have confidence in my qualities, I can defend and receive, and I know how to play several positions, that’s a big difference when competing for the starting role.”