Iceland review - 2014, Page 72

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inaugural team in 1938 (the men won the title in 2010). To
reach the playoffs, they won 23 games—including 17 consecu-
tive wins—and lost just 4.
Despite star player, and the sole foreigner on the team,
Chynna unique Brown from Texas, being injured, Snæfell take
the crown, winning 69:62 (10:12, 23:25, 46:34, 69:62). Brown
was out injured for the first two playoffs but managed to play
20 minutes of the final. “It’s an amazing feeling, in my first
year here, to help take the team to champions,” she told Iceland
Review following the match.
Head coach Ingi Þór Steinþórsson was naturally thrilled
about the result too. “We’ve written a big chapter in the his-
tory of women’s basketball today,” he said. “We were very
nervous but the other team was too. We struggled with shots in
the first half. At half time, we knew we couldn’t do a worse job
in offense but we went on to play well and at the end we were