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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hen Reiko High School.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm looking for a graduate of hen Reiko High School.
Her name is Susie Lindquist. Lindquist, Susie Lindquist. Now, she
graduated from hen Reiko High School in two thousand and eight. Okay,
(00:24):
apparently she was a pretty good athlete, because I know
that she has been inducted into the hen Reiko High School.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Athletic Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
She was inducted into the.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hen Reiko High School Athletic Hall of Fame in twenty
twenty four, so last year she was inducted into the
into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
She played field hockey.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It says she grew up playing ice hockey, which is awesome,
but that's not what she's known for now, Like that,
that's what maybe she was known for back when she
was at Henriiko High School. After college, and I don't know,
I don't know where she went to college, she moved
and went to Sweden, the country I assume that, well, Diane,
(01:19):
Diane didn't give me anything there, so I didn't know
she knew what I was talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Like she looked like maybe she was confused.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I know what Sweden is, No, I know you do.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh wait, you got a zipper on those today?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Sorry tough. Remember, I know you were triggered earlier. I know,
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
But it was in Sweden when she started playing floorball.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
What is that? So floorball I've never heard of.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I've never heard of, and apparently it's very big in Europe.
Actually it started in Sweden, says Floorball originally originated excuse me,
in Sweden in the early nineteen seventies and is widely
played in the Nordic countries. It made its way to
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the United States around twenty years ago. The sport, so
they say, is very similar to hockey, with a few
key differences. Obviously, floorball means you're gonna use sneakers instead
of skates, You're gonna use a ball instead of a puck.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
But I don't know. I don't know what other difference.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I'm assuming the sticks are different, like I'm sure that
there are equipment differences and stuff like that, But in
terms of rule of play, I don't know. I don't
know what's different or is not. So if somebody knows floorball, like,
is there floorball like, there's a there's the Richmond Floorball Club,
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nick Ball Dano is the president of that. But would
there be would there be a DC floorball club? Would
there be a like?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
How small does it?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I don't think there's a Spotsylvania floorball club.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I honestly don't think I've ever heard of it.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I never have, No, I never have.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Listen, I know people that play street hockey, but I've
never heard of floor ball. Now, I don't know if
anybody knows Susie Lindquist, but start texting her, please, I
need her.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'll even talk.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I'll even take Nick Baldano, he is the president of
the Richmond floor Ball Club. I'll take anybody who knows
anything about floor ball.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, I'm looking on Like, if somebody is.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Here and they are of Swedish descent, do they know floorball?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Probably if they are the inventors Sweden is yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, well, I guess it could be anybody from a
Nordic company, country or companies. Once she started playing, Susie
Lindquist says she never looked back. She later joined France's
national team and then was recruited to play for the
US women's national floorboard team.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Okay, how many countries this she eligible to play for?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
She has since played in two World Floorball Championships with
Team USA and is now preparing for her third. It says,
with Team USA, we don't have that centrally funded organization
like other European countries do. Each player has about three
thousand dollars in cost to cover. The Richmond Floorball Club
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was founded last year. The club keeps everything inexpensive, often
providing balls and.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Sticks to needy players.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But anyway they're doing a the whole reason well, I
bring it up for a couple of reasons. Number one,
I've never heard of it, never heard of floorball. It
sounds awesome, like I love hockey obviously probably, but if
this were another way, and they did say like some
people think, oh well, this isn't gonna be hard.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I think I was reading that.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
When Susie started playing, she was like, I was huffing
and puffing like madman after ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh yeah, I mean the gameplay looks intense.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh yeah, no, And I bet it is.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But it is. In Switzerland, Germany and Ireland it is
referred to as Una hockey.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh really.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And in Sweden and they'd like this to be the
name universally, they call it any bandy In bandy I
N an e b A n d y huh b
A n e n d.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Why what is it any band?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Is it in or any I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I don't know. I'm not Swedish.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But it says that it was popularized also domestically by
just elementary school gyms in the fifties and sixties in
the US.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Now that I get. But I bet it was I
bet it was a little bit different. I bet they
were just playing like just running around in the you know,
like in the gym, playing quote hockey, like, they weren't
playing floorball.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So when Sweden says they invented it, it is closer
to what the modern form is. What was being played
in the gym is because the fifties would take you
earlier than Sweden's claiming they came up with it.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, probably probably Where am I going line too? Hi?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Elliet in the morning? Hey Elliott, Hey, who's this?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
And then's Matt?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Hey, Matt, I'm doing great. What can I do for you?
Are you familiar with floorball? Uh?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Yeah? Like good friends with Nick? We started the Richmond
Floorball Club.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh that's Nick?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Is it? Am I saying it right? Baldano baldap Baldano. Yeah,
so how did you How did you guys end up
starting it?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
So we played uh through River City Sports and Social
Club right in Richmond, and uh we got tired of
doing that to start our own club. Oh but I
played there yesterday, play floorball yesterday? Actually?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Is it hard?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Uh not to start? No, it's pretty easy to start
and pick up?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Sorry, you know what?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
He's eating pizza?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It was hot when I got here.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I want are their sack breaks stirring? Floorball?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I'm a sub.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Hey how much I understand it's a ball and the
sticks are different?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Does it play like hockey? Or is it pretty different?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I've never really played hockey, so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Oh, sorry about that? And then do you know do
you know Susie Lindquist? You must?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
No, I know Nick. I'm more familiar than Nick. I
gotcha all right, like a talented friend.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Hey, why is there? Is is floorball bigger than I? Than?
I believe that it is?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Like like like you said, like you and Nick have
Richmond Floorball Club?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Are there? Are there what I'd be able to find?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I don't want to say a lot because that's open
to interpretation. But are there several floorball clubs up and
down the East.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Coast, I believe though. Yeah, dude, that's awesome, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
How many how late did Barton on Monday nights?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
How many how many people are in the club?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Probably about one hundred.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's great, that's good, that's great.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Good we had this season.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And you did say yes, Monday Monday nights at Barton.
Barton Memorial Rink is is where everything is. But the
whole reason, ay, thank you, my friend, I appreciate it.
But the whole reason I bring it up is so
Susie and the team USA Floorball Club they're going back
for another world championship. You know where the World Floorball
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Championship I can't say floorball for some reason, championships are
going to be played. So they're doing a fundraiser at
at Barton. Okay, just call it any bandy, Sorry, you're right.
They got to go to Chechia, not set. That's where
the championships are this year. So Susie's team is doing
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a fundraiser and the fundraiser is Monday, October thirteenth. So
this coming Monday starts at seven o'clock. And they say
the Indie Bandy Club welcomes anyone interested in supporting the
team or learning about the sport.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
That's great. Nine four Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Hey, yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
This is Nick Bell Dane.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh dude, I just talked to your buddy. How are you?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I know I listened to you talk to him.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, No, it was great.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Now I'm doing good.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
How are you? I'm doing excellent. Hey, I'm glad that
they I'm glad they did this story on Susie and
in the club. I had never heard a floor ball. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
No, she's actually just talk to her bob talking to
her the last couple of days on we're trying to
get this stuff started here in Richmond and trying to
get her some funds for the women's team. But yeah,
she actually just texted me, oh.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Sweet, Hey, is that is And is it like you're
like your buddy was saying, you guys were doing it
through someone else and decided to start your own program.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
No, we were playing just directly here in Richmond River
City Sports and Social Club, and we just thought there
was a little more demand and figure we start a
club and now we're kind of working together to throw
the sport.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And he said, there, you guys had four teams last year?
Is it is it? Is it easy to get into?
He said it was very easy to start and pick up.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Yeah, oh it's extremely easy.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
All you need really is uh just a stick and
sneakers walk on the court and it's pretty easy to
learn to hit a ball. It's not like skating on
ice or on roller skates or anything like that. So
your balance is there and is just hitting the ball
with a stick's pretty easy.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh well, then you know what I feel like I
could be Why don't I feel to la in the
morning team?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Why don't I do that?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
What about the format?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I think you should bring the game out on Monday?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, absolutely, the well you know what, Captain Diana will
be there.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Hey, what is the what is the what is the play? Though? Like,
is it similar to hockey or no? That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
So it's similar to hockey from the outside looking at
it if you've never played it. Once you start playing
the sport, the angles, the technique, the finets, it's a
lot different, a lot different.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Do you have boards like just to keep the ball
from going off the What do I play on a court?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I don't know what I play on.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Actually I think they're eight inch at
and inch high boards. And there's actually the floor is
actually called a girfloor g e R F l o R.
It's a brand. It's a type of synthetic floor that
we don't really have a lot of here in the States.
We have a lot of gyms, a lot of gym floor,
a lot of hardwood floors. So that's that we play
on mostly mostly, right.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But it's a GURF floor.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And then did you know anything about it before you
started playing at the UH at River City Sports?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I knew nothing about it. No, I hadn't heard about
it at all until about twenty twenty two.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Probably.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Wow, dude, that's amazing. I give you credit.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You not bold. They're like, hey, let's go start this
whole program.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You have a lot of people who play it in Richmond,
so it's pretty easy to do and people start keep
coming out and playing.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So is there is there a club in d C?
There is? Yes. I like that. I like that. I
mean I'm very intrigued. Say again, d and a bandy
is the name of the club.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
In a bandy That's what I call it. I'm I'm
a traditionalist, you know that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Hey, Nick, it's so And you said there or I
said I was reading the fundraiser. Is this coming Monday?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Right?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yep, it's going Monday, Monday night.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Excellent, excellent. Hey, I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Thank you, Nick, No problem, thank you, you got it.
Thank you, my friend. Yes to d C and a.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Bandy is based out of just down the road in Bethesa.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Are you serious? Where do they play?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They have a game Tuesday night at Herbert Hoover Middle School.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
So, but it's so, DC in a bandy is based
out of based out of Bethesda.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And how about Herbert Hoover clearly having a girl floor
or maybe not? Maybe not? So you can easily get
involved in a bandy in a bandy?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Does it sound interesting to you? Does it does sound
like something you would do? Or would it take away
from your hockey? Man?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Hockey? The why can't I do both? Why can't I
be a two sport athlete? Why can't I be Why
can't I be Bo Jackson? Ope? I have to go
to line one.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Please say hello to twenty twenty four inductee into the
Henriiko High School Athletic Hall of Fame, Susie.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
OK, guys, how are you for having me on?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I'm fine, thanks, really really happy to hear Floral being
choken about the radio.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Where where? Where do I find you?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Where are you?
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Right now? I'm actually in Paris?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What shut up?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
You're in Paris?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Yeah? Yeah, I am. I've lived over here for a
couple of years now. I moved over after living in
Richmond for a long time. I was moving to Sweden,
and then I moved to France for a while. Well,
I still live here and I play in their national
league over here and with USA floorball.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hey, so, how many how many?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Like?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
For example, I'm I'm I'm a dual citizen. I'm Canadian
and I'm American. How many how many citizenships do you have?
You you played for everybody's like world team.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I only have two. But once you played for a
kind of senior league team for a country, you can
actually only ever play with that team. So since I
played for the US, it's not like I could play
with anybody else, and I wouldn't want to.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
There you go, that's where you're goddamn right, Susane your
goddamn right. Hey, so did I I was reading about you?
Did I recorrectly? So you grew up you grew up
playing hockey and field hockey.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And why did you after? Where'd you go to college?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
By the way, I went to junior out of college.
It's a small E three school in central Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Okay. And were you Were you doing any athletics there?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yep?
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I actually went there to play field hockey.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Oh, good for you. How did you end up? How
did you end up in Sweden?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
So my dad is Swedish. You might be able to
tell from the last name went twist And I went
over there to do some more studies, and I wanted
to keep playing ice hockey, but there's there just wasn't
a lot of opportunity because there's so many players, so
I didn't really have the opportunity to play on the team.
And somebody there asked me if I wanted to try floorball,
And I ended up playing with a bunch of professors
at my university, and in more ways than one, they
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were truly schooling me, but I learned to love it.
They taught me everything that they knew because it's it
is like hockey, but it's different enough that it takes
It takes a little bit of getting used to, especially
if you're used to a puck. Yeah, and there's the
reason that I continue to play today.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Dude. That is awesome. So here's here's what I don't
get though.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So the World Championships, You'll be representing Team USA in
the World Championships, and those are those are in Checchia.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Listen, it's a.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Team sport, right where Like where is everybody at? Like
is everybody else in Richmond and you're like over in France.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Another great question, Like, like a lot of a lot
of the teams, we have players spread throughout the world.
So I'm in France. We have some players that are
in Sweden, I'm in Switzerland, a couple of it in Norway.
And then we have quite a few players that are
actually still based in the US, Like we have some
players that are in Colorado, in California and Texas. Not
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as many players on the East Coast. That's something that
I know that Richmond floorball is trying to change a
lot by the growth of sport there.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Right, But because of that, we.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Don't really have massive opportunities to play together. So we
met this March in Austin to play against Canada. That
was the qualifier, and we only saw each other for
two days before that as a full team to get
to practice to get our lines down, and then we
went into our qualifiers. And that's going to be kind
of the same thing when we meet in December. We'll
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meet a couple of days before for two days of
pretty intense practice, a practice game with one of the
local teams, and then we'll head into our first game.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Dude, that's awesome. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
It's really good fun. We were a really really cool team.
It's really diverse people from all age ranges too. I
think that's the really cool thing about Floriaball is that,
especially if you have some sort of history in another sport,
you can get started with justin sneakers and borrowing a
stick from a club and progress really fast. I started
playing when I was twenty four. Obviously I have a
background at hockey and ice hockey, right, but then I
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kind of put my stick down for about four years
and really only picked it up again when I was
close to twenty nine, and I only started playing on
the national team at thirty one, and we still have
players that are in their forties. Had our goalie in
Singapore that was over fifty. You can you can keep
playing this game at any age and as long as
you have the technical skills and also the drive and motivation,
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you can do big things with it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Susie, are you the and and listen? Nobody else on
the team is listening. Are you? Are you the best
one on the team?
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Definitely not, damn it. We have some We have some
absolutely incredible players in our team. So in Sweden you
have something called this Sweeper super League, the it's it's
the SSL, and we have some players that used to
play in that. That's a professional floorball league in Sweden.
And yeah, we just I mean, we have players that
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have been that have been playing forball since they were
able to walk. Then there's a few of us that
only picked it up later in life. You know, we
do our best and we keep up, but there's a
I mean, there's some real talent on this team.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Hey, so I understand how you ended up in Sweden?
How do Howard? Why are you in Paris? H oh?
For love?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Of course? Isn't that the only reason you.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Chase the you?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
You?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You chase the love, didn't you?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
I did? I did. I'm got a European he brought
me here.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
And you guys are still good?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Yes, all right?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Good?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Well no, I don't know, no, But I mean, like
sometimes sometimes you chase it and uh, it doesn't go the.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Way that you thought it was.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Also Richmond and both river cities.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
All right, so you what you call it? So but
but I guess the big encouragement. I'm assuming you're not
going to be in town on Monday, but the big encouragement,
that's okay. Yeah, well I guess unless he comes to Richmond,
you'll chase him the But no, that's good to be
able to, like to help raise money to support Team
USA for the World Championships in uh In Chech.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Yeah, it's absolutely incredible what Richmond Florball is doing for us.
It's it's really helping kind of move the needle for
a lot of our players. Like I said, we have
players coming from everywhere. We also have players that are
still students. So really every penny that gets to our
team that helps us to do more and focus on
our training rather than focusing on how we're going to
pay for the tournament. Every single penny helps, So we're
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so grateful for the Richmond community for what they're doing,
and hopefully it also inspires some people to come out
and try the sport for the first time while also
supporting our journey.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Hey, last two things.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Number One, I got a note and I didn't have
a chance to look it up, but maybe you know,
did floor ball just get added to Special Olympics.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
I do know that there was there was floorball and
Special Olympics this year. I remember seeing that too. Oh okay, feral,
So that means for our future?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Very good, No, that's great. And then the last thing
is I want to be able to get some info
from you. I don't know how to dial internationally, but
we'll figure it out. But as we get closer to
the World Championships, may I check in with you again
in December?
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That would be great, perfect, very good. Oh, Susie, I'm glad.
I'm so glad we talked. I really enjoy you me
s thanks so much.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Hey, you got it again for featuring us.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That is hen Reiko High School twenty twenty four Athletic
Hall of Famer Susie Lindquist, Hey, Susie hold on one second?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
All right, sure,
Hen Reiko High School.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm looking for a graduate of hen Reiko High School.
Her name is Susie Lindquist. Lindquist, Susie Lindquist. Now, she
graduated from hen Reiko High School in two thousand and eight. Okay,
(00:24):
apparently she was a pretty good athlete, because I know
that she has been inducted into the hen Reiko High School.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Athletic Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
She was inducted into the.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hen Reiko High School Athletic Hall of Fame in twenty
twenty four, so last year she was inducted into the
into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
She played field hockey.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It says she grew up playing ice hockey, which is awesome,
but that's not what she's known for now, Like that,
that's what maybe she was known for back when she
was at Henriiko High School. After college, and I don't know,
I don't know where she went to college, she moved
and went to Sweden, the country I assume that, well, Diane,
(01:19):
Diane didn't give me anything there, so I didn't know
she knew what I was talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Like she looked like maybe she was confused.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I know what Sweden is, No, I know you do.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh wait, you got a zipper on those today?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Sorry tough. Remember, I know you were triggered earlier. I know,
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
But it was in Sweden when she started playing floorball.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
What is that? So floorball I've never heard of.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I've never heard of, and apparently it's very big in Europe.
Actually it started in Sweden, says Floorball originally originated excuse me,
in Sweden in the early nineteen seventies and is widely
played in the Nordic countries. It made its way to
(02:09):
the United States around twenty years ago. The sport, so
they say, is very similar to hockey, with a few
key differences. Obviously, floorball means you're gonna use sneakers instead
of skates, You're gonna use a ball instead of a puck.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
But I don't know. I don't know what other difference.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I'm assuming the sticks are different, like I'm sure that
there are equipment differences and stuff like that, But in
terms of rule of play, I don't know. I don't
know what's different or is not. So if somebody knows floorball, like,
is there floorball like, there's a there's the Richmond Floorball Club,
(02:50):
nick Ball Dano is the president of that. But would
there be would there be a DC floorball club? Would
there be a like?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
How small does it?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I don't think there's a Spotsylvania floorball club.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I honestly don't think I've ever heard of it.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I never have, No, I never have.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Listen, I know people that play street hockey, but I've
never heard of floor ball. Now, I don't know if
anybody knows Susie Lindquist, but start texting her, please, I
need her.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'll even talk.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I'll even take Nick Baldano, he is the president of
the Richmond floor Ball Club. I'll take anybody who knows
anything about floor ball.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, I'm looking on Like, if somebody is.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Here and they are of Swedish descent, do they know floorball?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Probably if they are the inventors Sweden is yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, well, I guess it could be anybody from a
Nordic company, country or companies. Once she started playing, Susie
Lindquist says she never looked back. She later joined France's
national team and then was recruited to play for the
US women's national floorboard team.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Okay, how many countries this she eligible to play for?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
She has since played in two World Floorball Championships with
Team USA and is now preparing for her third. It says,
with Team USA, we don't have that centrally funded organization
like other European countries do. Each player has about three
thousand dollars in cost to cover. The Richmond Floorball Club
(04:36):
was founded last year. The club keeps everything inexpensive, often
providing balls and.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Sticks to needy players.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But anyway they're doing a the whole reason well, I
bring it up for a couple of reasons. Number one,
I've never heard of it, never heard of floorball. It
sounds awesome, like I love hockey obviously probably, but if
this were another way, and they did say like some
people think, oh well, this isn't gonna be hard.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I think I was reading that.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
When Susie started playing, she was like, I was huffing
and puffing like madman after ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh yeah, I mean the gameplay looks intense.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh yeah, no, And I bet it is.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But it is. In Switzerland, Germany and Ireland it is
referred to as Una hockey.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh really.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And in Sweden and they'd like this to be the
name universally, they call it any bandy In bandy I
N an e b A n d y huh b
A n e n d.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Why what is it any band?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Is it in or any I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I don't know. I'm not Swedish.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But it says that it was popularized also domestically by
just elementary school gyms in the fifties and sixties in
the US.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Now that I get. But I bet it was I
bet it was a little bit different. I bet they
were just playing like just running around in the you know,
like in the gym, playing quote hockey, like, they weren't
playing floorball.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So when Sweden says they invented it, it is closer
to what the modern form is. What was being played
in the gym is because the fifties would take you
earlier than Sweden's claiming they came up with it.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, probably probably Where am I going line too? Hi?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Elliet in the morning? Hey Elliott, Hey, who's this?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
And then's Matt?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Hey, Matt, I'm doing great. What can I do for you?
Are you familiar with floorball? Uh?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Yeah? Like good friends with Nick? We started the Richmond
Floorball Club.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh that's Nick?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Is it? Am I saying it right? Baldano baldap Baldano. Yeah,
so how did you How did you guys end up
starting it?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
So we played uh through River City Sports and Social
Club right in Richmond, and uh we got tired of
doing that to start our own club. Oh but I
played there yesterday, play floorball yesterday? Actually?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Is it hard?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Uh not to start? No, it's pretty easy to start
and pick up?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Sorry, you know what?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
He's eating pizza?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It was hot when I got here.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I want are their sack breaks stirring? Floorball?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I'm a sub.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Hey how much I understand it's a ball and the
sticks are different?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Does it play like hockey? Or is it pretty different?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I've never really played hockey, so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Oh, sorry about that? And then do you know do
you know Susie Lindquist? You must?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
No, I know Nick. I'm more familiar than Nick. I
gotcha all right, like a talented friend.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Hey, why is there? Is is floorball bigger than I? Than?
I believe that it is?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Like like like you said, like you and Nick have
Richmond Floorball Club?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Are there? Are there what I'd be able to find?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I don't want to say a lot because that's open
to interpretation. But are there several floorball clubs up and
down the East.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Coast, I believe though. Yeah, dude, that's awesome, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
How many how late did Barton on Monday nights?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
How many how many people are in the club?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Probably about one hundred.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's great, that's good, that's great.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Good we had this season.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And you did say yes, Monday Monday nights at Barton.
Barton Memorial Rink is is where everything is. But the
whole reason, ay, thank you, my friend, I appreciate it.
But the whole reason I bring it up is so
Susie and the team USA Floorball Club they're going back
for another world championship. You know where the World Floorball
(08:54):
Championship I can't say floorball for some reason, championships are
going to be played. So they're doing a fundraiser at
at Barton. Okay, just call it any bandy, Sorry, you're right.
They got to go to Chechia, not set. That's where
the championships are this year. So Susie's team is doing
(09:15):
a fundraiser and the fundraiser is Monday, October thirteenth. So
this coming Monday starts at seven o'clock. And they say
the Indie Bandy Club welcomes anyone interested in supporting the
team or learning about the sport.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
That's great. Nine four Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Hey, yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
This is Nick Bell Dane.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh dude, I just talked to your buddy. How are you?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I know I listened to you talk to him.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, No, it was great.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Now I'm doing good.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
How are you? I'm doing excellent. Hey, I'm glad that
they I'm glad they did this story on Susie and
in the club. I had never heard a floor ball. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
No, she's actually just talk to her bob talking to
her the last couple of days on we're trying to
get this stuff started here in Richmond and trying to
get her some funds for the women's team. But yeah,
she actually just texted me, oh.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Sweet, Hey, is that is And is it like you're
like your buddy was saying, you guys were doing it
through someone else and decided to start your own program.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
No, we were playing just directly here in Richmond River
City Sports and Social Club, and we just thought there
was a little more demand and figure we start a
club and now we're kind of working together to throw
the sport.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And he said, there, you guys had four teams last year?
Is it is it? Is it easy to get into?
He said it was very easy to start and pick up.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Yeah, oh it's extremely easy.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
All you need really is uh just a stick and
sneakers walk on the court and it's pretty easy to
learn to hit a ball. It's not like skating on
ice or on roller skates or anything like that. So
your balance is there and is just hitting the ball
with a stick's pretty easy.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh well, then you know what I feel like I
could be Why don't I feel to la in the
morning team?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Why don't I do that?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
What about the format?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I think you should bring the game out on Monday?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, absolutely, the well you know what, Captain Diana will
be there.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Hey, what is the what is the what is the play? Though? Like,
is it similar to hockey or no? That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
So it's similar to hockey from the outside looking at
it if you've never played it. Once you start playing
the sport, the angles, the technique, the finets, it's a
lot different, a lot different.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Do you have boards like just to keep the ball
from going off the What do I play on a court?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I don't know what I play on.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Actually I think they're eight inch at
and inch high boards. And there's actually the floor is
actually called a girfloor g e R F l o R.
It's a brand. It's a type of synthetic floor that
we don't really have a lot of here in the States.
We have a lot of gyms, a lot of gym floor,
a lot of hardwood floors. So that's that we play
on mostly mostly, right.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But it's a GURF floor.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And then did you know anything about it before you
started playing at the UH at River City Sports?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I knew nothing about it. No, I hadn't heard about
it at all until about twenty twenty two.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Probably.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Wow, dude, that's amazing. I give you credit.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You not bold. They're like, hey, let's go start this
whole program.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You have a lot of people who play it in Richmond,
so it's pretty easy to do and people start keep
coming out and playing.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So is there is there a club in d C?
There is? Yes. I like that. I like that. I
mean I'm very intrigued. Say again, d and a bandy
is the name of the club.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
In a bandy That's what I call it. I'm I'm
a traditionalist, you know that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Hey, Nick, it's so And you said there or I
said I was reading the fundraiser. Is this coming Monday?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Right?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yep, it's going Monday, Monday night.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Excellent, excellent. Hey, I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Thank you, Nick, No problem, thank you, you got it.
Thank you, my friend. Yes to d C and a.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Bandy is based out of just down the road in Bethesa.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Are you serious? Where do they play?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They have a game Tuesday night at Herbert Hoover Middle School.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
So, but it's so, DC in a bandy is based
out of based out of Bethesda.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And how about Herbert Hoover clearly having a girl floor
or maybe not? Maybe not? So you can easily get
involved in a bandy in a bandy?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Does it sound interesting to you? Does it does sound
like something you would do? Or would it take away
from your hockey? Man?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Hockey? The why can't I do both? Why can't I
be a two sport athlete? Why can't I be Why
can't I be Bo Jackson? Ope? I have to go
to line one.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Please say hello to twenty twenty four inductee into the
Henriiko High School Athletic Hall of Fame, Susie.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
OK, guys, how are you for having me on?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I'm fine, thanks, really really happy to hear Floral being
choken about the radio.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Where where? Where do I find you?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Where are you?
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Right now? I'm actually in Paris?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What shut up?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
You're in Paris?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Yeah? Yeah, I am. I've lived over here for a
couple of years now. I moved over after living in
Richmond for a long time. I was moving to Sweden,
and then I moved to France for a while. Well,
I still live here and I play in their national
league over here and with USA floorball.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hey, so, how many how many?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Like?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
For example, I'm I'm I'm a dual citizen. I'm Canadian
and I'm American. How many how many citizenships do you have?
You you played for everybody's like world team.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I only have two. But once you played for a
kind of senior league team for a country, you can
actually only ever play with that team. So since I
played for the US, it's not like I could play
with anybody else, and I wouldn't want to.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
There you go, that's where you're goddamn right, Susane your
goddamn right. Hey, so did I I was reading about you?
Did I recorrectly? So you grew up you grew up
playing hockey and field hockey.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And why did you after? Where'd you go to college?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
By the way, I went to junior out of college.
It's a small E three school in central Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Okay. And were you Were you doing any athletics there?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yep?
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I actually went there to play field hockey.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Oh, good for you. How did you end up? How
did you end up in Sweden?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
So my dad is Swedish. You might be able to
tell from the last name went twist And I went
over there to do some more studies, and I wanted
to keep playing ice hockey, but there's there just wasn't
a lot of opportunity because there's so many players, so
I didn't really have the opportunity to play on the team.
And somebody there asked me if I wanted to try floorball,
And I ended up playing with a bunch of professors
at my university, and in more ways than one, they
(15:44):
were truly schooling me, but I learned to love it.
They taught me everything that they knew because it's it
is like hockey, but it's different enough that it takes
It takes a little bit of getting used to, especially
if you're used to a puck. Yeah, and there's the
reason that I continue to play today.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Dude. That is awesome. So here's here's what I don't
get though.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So the World Championships, You'll be representing Team USA in
the World Championships, and those are those are in Checchia.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Listen, it's a.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Team sport, right where Like where is everybody at? Like
is everybody else in Richmond and you're like over in France.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Another great question, Like, like a lot of a lot
of the teams, we have players spread throughout the world.
So I'm in France. We have some players that are
in Sweden, I'm in Switzerland, a couple of it in Norway.
And then we have quite a few players that are
actually still based in the US, Like we have some
players that are in Colorado, in California and Texas. Not
(16:43):
as many players on the East Coast. That's something that
I know that Richmond floorball is trying to change a
lot by the growth of sport there.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Right, But because of that, we.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Don't really have massive opportunities to play together. So we
met this March in Austin to play against Canada. That
was the qualifier, and we only saw each other for
two days before that as a full team to get
to practice to get our lines down, and then we
went into our qualifiers. And that's going to be kind
of the same thing when we meet in December. We'll
(17:12):
meet a couple of days before for two days of
pretty intense practice, a practice game with one of the
local teams, and then we'll head into our first game.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Dude, that's awesome. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
It's really good fun. We were a really really cool team.
It's really diverse people from all age ranges too. I
think that's the really cool thing about Floriaball is that,
especially if you have some sort of history in another sport,
you can get started with justin sneakers and borrowing a
stick from a club and progress really fast. I started
playing when I was twenty four. Obviously I have a
background at hockey and ice hockey, right, but then I
(17:47):
kind of put my stick down for about four years
and really only picked it up again when I was
close to twenty nine, and I only started playing on
the national team at thirty one, and we still have
players that are in their forties. Had our goalie in
Singapore that was over fifty. You can you can keep
playing this game at any age and as long as
you have the technical skills and also the drive and motivation,
(18:10):
you can do big things with it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Susie, are you the and and listen? Nobody else on
the team is listening. Are you? Are you the best
one on the team?
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Definitely not, damn it. We have some We have some
absolutely incredible players in our team. So in Sweden you
have something called this Sweeper super League, the it's it's
the SSL, and we have some players that used to
play in that. That's a professional floorball league in Sweden.
And yeah, we just I mean, we have players that
(18:41):
have been that have been playing forball since they were
able to walk. Then there's a few of us that
only picked it up later in life. You know, we
do our best and we keep up, but there's a
I mean, there's some real talent on this team.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Hey, so I understand how you ended up in Sweden?
How do Howard? Why are you in Paris? H oh?
For love?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Of course? Isn't that the only reason you.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Chase the you?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
You?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You chase the love, didn't you?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
I did? I did. I'm got a European he brought
me here.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
And you guys are still good?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Yes, all right?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Good?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Well no, I don't know, no, But I mean, like
sometimes sometimes you chase it and uh, it doesn't go the.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Way that you thought it was.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Also Richmond and both river cities.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
All right, so you what you call it? So but
but I guess the big encouragement. I'm assuming you're not
going to be in town on Monday, but the big encouragement,
that's okay. Yeah, well I guess unless he comes to Richmond,
you'll chase him the But no, that's good to be
able to, like to help raise money to support Team
USA for the World Championships in uh In Chech.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Yeah, it's absolutely incredible what Richmond Florball is doing for us.
It's it's really helping kind of move the needle for
a lot of our players. Like I said, we have
players coming from everywhere. We also have players that are
still students. So really every penny that gets to our
team that helps us to do more and focus on
our training rather than focusing on how we're going to
pay for the tournament. Every single penny helps, So we're
(20:14):
so grateful for the Richmond community for what they're doing,
and hopefully it also inspires some people to come out
and try the sport for the first time while also
supporting our journey.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Hey, last two things.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Number One, I got a note and I didn't have
a chance to look it up, but maybe you know,
did floor ball just get added to Special Olympics.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
I do know that there was there was floorball and
Special Olympics this year. I remember seeing that too. Oh okay, feral,
So that means for our future?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Very good, No, that's great. And then the last thing
is I want to be able to get some info
from you. I don't know how to dial internationally, but
we'll figure it out. But as we get closer to
the World Championships, may I check in with you again
in December?
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That would be great, perfect, very good. Oh, Susie, I'm glad.
I'm so glad we talked. I really enjoy you me
s thanks so much.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Hey, you got it again for featuring us.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That is hen Reiko High School twenty twenty four Athletic
Hall of Famer Susie Lindquist, Hey, Susie hold on one second?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
All right, sure,
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