November 4-11, 2008: Atlantis Women Tour Borneo

Atlantis Women in Borneo-1: Tuesday/Wednesday - Long Trip and Kota Kinabalu

Atlantis Women in Borneo-2: Thursday/Friday - Travel to Sandakan & Orang Utan Rehab Centre

Atlantis Women in Borneo-3. Saturday & Sunday: Tournament & Celebration

Atlantis Women in Borneo-4. Monday & Tuesday: Palm Oil Plantation, Kids, Heading Home

Note of July 2013: I don't even remember how I found the Borneo Sevens, might have been on Facebook. Needless to say, it seemed like too good an opportunity not to go for it.  After getting recommendations and looking for players willing and able to join this unique opportunity I found 8 good players (would have liked 2 more, but we did just fine), and we were off.  It was the year to do it - it was the first year for women at Borneo, and starting the next year it became an Asian championship so we wouldn't have been allowed to take part.

I never wrote up anything on this tour, but I did put together a couple of highlight videos. I have begun (July 28, 2013) writing an article on the tour (based in large part on memories spurred by these videos and many pictures. It will take ages.

The highlight videos may still be found on youtube:

Part 1 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFHUrsjmOw4 - This is all pre-tournament.

Part 2 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlY4EVx-e50 - tournament highlights and afterwards.

In case they disappear from youtube (known to happen), these videos may also be found here (but the youtube versions load faster):

Highlight video 1: pre tourney  and here  Highlight video 2: tourney and after

Another generic video encompassing several days of the tour is this one, put together from a bunch of unrelated little video clips taken by digital tour chronicler Michelle Persica:

Miscellaneous Michelle Persica cliplets

This was our roster:

Atlantis Number, Name, Club
706 Casey Gallagher, Hong Kong Football Club
811 Tracy Gola, Lehigh Valley
658 Jess Hammond, DC Furies
812 Christina Killhoury, Cornell
813 Elena Olivi, Vientiane Lions
442 Michelle Persica, Austin Valkyries
814 Jane Sachs, Atlanta Harlequins
499 Sarah Schooler, Maryland Stingers
815 Holly Thom, Cleveland Iron Maidens