The life of a top athlete is not always fun. Unfortunately, Tanya Bröring knows this better than anyone. The Landslake Lions basketball star suffered a serious knee injury more than a year ago and the recovery is less than hoped. “Sometimes I sometimes think what a load of shit.”
On the bench next to trainer Chris van Kampen, Tanya Bröring is trying to help her team as much as possible this season. She also did that last weekend during the cup final against Den Helder Suns. Passionately she coached and directed her fellow players. Unfortunately, she saw that Landslike Lions fell short and that the cup went to Den Helder. “We fought very hard, only Suns constantly punished our mistakes. You sometimes feel that powerlessness when you sit on the bench.”
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Reportage of the Den Helder Suns – Landslake Lions basketball final – NH News
Intense evening
“At the moment I am focusing on next season,” says Tanya Bröring about her rehabilitation process. At the beginning of 2022, the 38-year-old from Amsterdam tore off her front knee ligaments. “An intense evening”, said the then emotional trainer Marlous Nieuwveen. “We’re all scared of this.”
A months-long rehabilitation followed for Bröring. And that is a physically tough process, but also certainly mentally. A process with the necessary bumps. For example, Bröring underwent another operation last summer. That’s why she’s been living from day to day lately. “I don’t focus on a date, because I did that before and that is often disappointing.”
“I’ve been working for thirteen months and I haven’t really progressed in the last two months”
In addition to basketball, Bröring works full-time at Ajax as a sports scientist. “I feed back all the data we measure from the players to the technical staff.” The combination of top sport and her job at the Amsterdam club does not always go well together. “I notice that my focus has changed. I no longer see myself training three to four a week in the future. I also have a desire to have children.”
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Basketball star Tanya Bröring: “I’ve been through worse things than a cruciate ligament injury” – NH News
Standstill
The long rehabilitation process therefore ensures realism for the veteran. “I’m not the youngest anymore and I’ve been working for thirteen months. The last two months I’ve felt a bit stagnant. Sometimes things go well, and a day later a reaction follows in my knee.”
“This summer I will make a decision about my basketball future,” said Bröring. She doesn’t want to know anything about an approaching farewell. “I really want to return, but I still depend on how my knee responds.” Until then, she will continue to assist trainer Van Kampen on the side of the basketball court.
This weekend, Landslake Lions will take on Basketball Academy Limburg in-house.
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