The Soria Basketball Club will once again have a women’s team in the First Division next season. The project that took so long to see the light -and for which so much was fought from different levels- will thus have the necessary continuity in the 2022-2023 campaign, in which it has already been confirmed that the people of Soria Daniel Hernández and Mario Palomar will again integrate the coaching staff. It is intended to have the backbone of last season, although it is still early to know the definitive configuration of the squad, which will be influenced by labor and academic issues of the players themselves. The competition will begin on September 18, provided that Group A1 of the First Division finally has fourteen teams, which are the ones that were measured last season.
In the 2022-2023 season, the Basketball Federation of the Principality of Asturias will be in charge of organizing the competition at the Group A of the Women’s First Division, in which the Cantabrian, Castilian and Leonese, Galician and Asturian teams are traditionally framed. As stated in the competition rules approved by the federations of these four autonomous communities, any team that wanted to compete in the Women’s First Division had to previously deposit a guarantee of 1,950 euros, in addition to presenting all the documentation of these procedures ( the club’s statutes approved by the Junta de Castilla y León, the club file, the team registration sheet…).
The Women’s League is the highest category of Spanish women’s basketball and below it are the Challenge League and the Women’s League 2, which was promoted at the end of May in Granada by Tirso Incentro de Santander, the champion last season of a regular league in which Club Soria Baloncesto achieved two wins: against Amide Camargo from Cantabria, in an unforgettable January 23 at the Polideportivo San Andrés, and against Club Villamuriel de Palencia, on the last day before the final round. In this confrontation, against the Arxil Mafari Café in Pontevedra, the Sorianas only lost by 7 points in the first leg and won -it was their third victory- by 17 in the second leg.
These results allowed him to avoid the last place in the final classification of Group A of the First Division Feminina to a Club Soria Baloncesto that, as a result of its inexperience and the high level of many of its rivals, came to chain sixteen defeats in the first days of the season. Neither the bad results nor the hardness of the competition (continuous trips of many kilometers, sick leave due to long-term injury, occasional absences as a result of Covid-19…) undermined neither the players nor the coaches and the hard work carried out began to take form on the field long before the first victory came. That the dozens of girls in its lower sections can have the First Division team as a reference is one of the great objectives of the Soria Basketball Club.
