Mexican Sainz enjoys the German experience

TIJUANA, Mexico, March 11, 2015 – Playing in her first season in Germany, Mexican Seomara Sainz has become quickly one of the most popular players of the Women’s Bundesliga while contributing to the success of the Potsdam SC, one of the top contenders of the league.

Sainz, an offensive sensation with the German club who five times was elected MVP during the season, also finished the regular season as the second best receiver.

“It is a very different rhythm of play here, much different than in Mexico, because it is faster and you face taller players,” Sainz said about the experience of playing overseas. “It has served also to improve my technique.”

The hard work and dedication of the young Mexican continues to be the same of her days training and playing at home in Baja California.

“I have trained and played with the same intensity, because there is not a big difference in that matter between Germany and Mexico,” Sanz added.

The discipline and hard work in every drill has been a key after the years she spent under Argentinean coach Estanislao Vachino while playing for the Baja California State teams.

“When I was in charge of the youth and junior national teams, everybody asked me who was the top prospect, and who could become one of the best in Mexico, and I always said Seomara had the talent and qualities, but nobody believed that,” Vachino said.

At a very young age, Sainz has already played Pan American Cups, Continental Championships, one edition of the Central American and Caribbean Games and even World Championships in different categories.

She and the Mexican team finished in fourth place at the Central American and Caribbean Games after a long and tough battle against Cuba for the bronze medal while the fans enjoyed watching Sainz, one of the popular players on the court.

Sainz returned to Mexico just for the Games and went back to work in Germany, but chances are of  Sainz playing again in her native country once the Bundesliga season concludes.

Family matters

“I feel so proud of her, every time she goes out to play, it has been a very great feeling for us as a family,” said her sister Karla Giselle Sainz, who also played for the national age groups and senior teams.

When Seomara was with the youth squads, Karla was the captain of the U20 unit that played the NORCECA Continental Championship in 2010 and also played at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico and one year later made the team to the XVI Pan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Then she began her college career, but her love for volleyball keeps alive as it happens in her family. Her father, Guillermo, has served as physical education teacher, volleyball coach, and also has worked as scout.

Among his duties one is to find prospects for the volleyball program of Baja California, one that has become the most successful in Mexico by achieving international recognition for their successful teams participating in competitions in the United States.

The mission of Mexican volleyball is now to find more players with the potential of Seomara and to develop their dreams and qualities.