de RYCK Pauline
Shirt number: 1
Date of Birth: 07/04/1998
Nationality: Belgium
Match results
| 02 | 6 Apr 14:45 |
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Gantoise HC GAN | 0 - 3 | Club Campo de Madrid CAM |
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Recap |
| 05 | 8 Apr 09:15 |
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Gantoise HC GAN | 4 - 1 | Pembroke Wanderers HC PEM |
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* Won by shoot-out
About Gantoise HC
Gantoise’s women have built a lead in the Ion Hockey League season following a perfect start to 2023.
It continues an incredible run for the club in recent years which included a 93-game unbeaten run between April 2018 and October 2022 in the Belgian league. During that time, they won back-to-back national titles while they also won the EuroHockey Trophy in 2021 which went a long way to elevating their country to the EHL Women’s stage for the first time.
The squad has been pretty much together for the past three season with Stephanie vanden Borre the sole departure last summer while Spanish international Berta Bonastre is back in Belgium.
Otherwise, it is a side filled with notable players. Alix Gerniers is the team captain – and Belgian Red Panthers’ co-captain – and is in her 14th season with the club. The 2015 and 2018 Belgian player of the year missed out on the EHL last year through injury.
Barbara Nelen is a product of the youth section and Gerniers’ co-captain at international level. She made her first team debut at the age of 14 and was the best Belgian player in 2011 and 2013.
Ballenghien is slightly newer to the scene but is already a global star, scoring the 2021 FIH Goal of the Year; she scored on international debut at the age of 16 in 2017 against Germany.
They are among a set of five Red Panthers who won Euro bronze in 2021 along with Hélène Brasseur and Pauline de Ryck. French international Delfina Gaspari and Italian – by way of Argentina – Oviedo bring experience while Schreurs and Ann-Sophie Vanden Borre are Under-21 internationals.
It is a youthful setup with an average age of 23,1 while they feature the two youngest players in the Belgian League: Fee Van Den Abeele and Alexi Van Remortel. Both girls only turned 15 in August 2022.
At the far end of the spectrum, Emilie Sinia turns 38 in May and has over 20 years of know-how in the division, still tearing things up down the right channel.
They finished in fourth place last year will meet Spain’s Club de Campo in the ABN AMRO EHL FINAL8.
EHL History
2021/22 – Fourth place
The team
VAN LANCKER Silke
Shirt number: 2
Date of Birth: 04/01/2006
Nationality: Belgium
BRASSEUR Hélène
Shirt number: 3
Date of Birth: 04/01/2002
Nationality: Belgium
LANCKNEUS Marie
Shirt number: 4
Date of Birth: 03/08/1997
Nationality: Belgium
CUFFEZ Ilke
Shirt number: 5
Date of Birth: 21/01/2007
Nationality: Belgium
GROFFILS Marie
Shirt number: 6
Date of Birth: 16/09/2004
Nationality: Belgium
VAN DEN ABEELE Fee
Shirt number: 7
Date of Birth: 07/08/2007
Nationality: Belgium
DEGEZELLE Sky-Scarlett
Shirt number: 8
Date of Birth: 04/04/2006
Nationality: Belgium
van CALCAR Jori
Shirt number: 9
Date of Birth: 18/07/1999
Nationality: Belgium
BONASTRE Berta
Shirt number: 10
Date of Birth: 03/06/1992
Nationality: Spain
OVIEDO Lara
Shirt number: 11
Date of Birth: 12/04/1988
Nationality: Italy
STAELENS Juliette
Shirt number: 12
Date of Birth: 18/04/2005
Nationality: Belgium
GERNIERS Alix
Shirt number: 13
Date of Birth: 29/06/1993
Nationality: Belgium
SINIA Emilie
Shirt number: 14
Date of Birth: 03/05/1985
Nationality: Belgium
VANDEN BORRE Anne-Sophie
Shirt number: 15
Date of Birth: 17/06/2001
Nationality: Belgium
SCHREURS Noa
Shirt number: 16
Date of Birth: 25/07/2003
Nationality: Belgium
GASPARI Delfina
Shirt number: 17
Date of Birth: 30/04/1998
Nationality: France
VERMEIRE Judith
Shirt number: 18
Date of Birth: 15/05/2007
Nationality: Belgium
NELEN Barbara
Shirt number: 19
Date of Birth: 20/08/1991
Nationality: Belgium
VAN REMORTEL Alexi
Shirt number: 20
Date of Birth: 16/08/2007
Nationality: Belgium
STAS Zarah
Shirt number: 21
Date of Birth: 07/07/2005
Nationality: Belgium
PELLEMAN Anne-Sophie
Shirt number: 22
Date of Birth: 27/02/2004
Nationality: Belgium
COOLS Jada
Shirt number: 23
Date of Birth: 21/06/2005
Nationality: Belgium
GEIREGAT Nina
Shirt number: 24
Date of Birth: 03/08/2004
Nationality: Belgium
ROCHTUS Merel
Shirt number: 25
Date of Birth: 03/12/2003
Nationality: Belgium
VAN DEN WEGHE Eglantine
Shirt number: 26
Date of Birth: 13/01/1992
Nationality: Belgium
BARTELS Karin
Shirt number: 27
Date of Birth: 24/11/1992
Nationality: Belgium
NIJHOF Maura
Shirt number: 28
Date of Birth: 15/11/1999
Nationality: Belgium
PAVANELLO Ines
Shirt number: 29
Date of Birth: 19/02/1990
Nationality: Italy
BALLENGHIEN Ambre
Shirt number: 30
Date of Birth: 13/12/2000
Nationality: Belgium
GEIREGAT Marta
Shirt number: 31
Date of Birth: 24/11/2006
Nationality: Belgium
VAN HECKE Louise
Shirt number: 32
Date of Birth: 20/09/2006
Nationality: Belgium
GRIJPMA Fleur
Shirt number: 33
Date of Birth: 20/06/1998
Nationality: Netherlands
DHAESE Inke
Shirt number: 34
Date of Birth: 30/06/2003
Nationality: Belgium
BOSMANS Astrid
Shirt number: 35
Date of Birth: 24/03/2000
Nationality: Belgium
van den BOER Emilie
Shirt number: 36
Date of Birth: 11/03/2003
Nationality: Belgium
ROGGE Maxine
Shirt number: 37
Date of Birth: 07/03/2007
Nationality: Belgium
VERHAEGHE Romanie
Shirt number: 38
Date of Birth: 03/11/2007
Nationality: Belgium
CORTHALS Olivia
Shirt number: 39
Date of Birth: 11/01/2001
Nationality: Belgium
CALLOENS Astrid
Shirt number: 40
Date of Birth: 20/04/2004
Nationality: Belgium