Lady Zags Announce Foreign Trip for this August

[ZagDad84]

From GoZags:

WBB Announces Foreign Trip for this August
The Zags will travel to Greece and Croatia

SPOKANE, Wash. – The Gonzaga women's basketball team will spend nearly two weeks abroad this August as part of the second foreign tour in program history. The Bulldogs will depart on Sunday, August 13, and will return stateside on Friday, August 25, with stops in Croatia and Greece along the way.

The Zags will enjoy multi-day stays in Athens, Greece, as well as Dubrovnik and Split in Croatia, and Montenegro. The NCAA permits institutions to participate in a foreign tour once every four years.

"The opportunity to go on a foreign tour with our team is incredibly valuable," head coach Lisa Fortier said. "The chance to spend time not just learning and seeing these amazing places, but also experiencing them together is incredible. I am so thankful for our university and the supporters that recognize these kind of life changing opportunities for our student-athletes to take part in."

The trip will feature various sightseeing opportunities and city tours including landmark visits to Panathenaic Stadium and Olympic Museum, Cape Sounion on the Attica peninsula, the ancient Temple of Poseidon, and Mostar UNESCO World Heritage Site. The team will also visit the lakes, rivers and waterfalls in Krka National Park.

The Bulldogs will compete in three games against international competition during the course of the trip in Athens, Montenegro and Split.

"I am so thankful to be going on this trip to Greece and Croatia," senior Brynna Maxwell said. "I have never been to that part of the world before and it is such a privilege to be able to experience this with my teammates."

You can read the rest here: WBB Announces Foreign Trip for this August - Gonzaga University Athletics (gozags.com)

Great opportunity for the young women, plus an opportunity to start the season a little earlier than normal.

I have been to Dubrovnik in Croatia several times as well as the National Park. The Lady Zags and staff are truly in for a treat.

ZagDad

[AirborneJag]

Whatdda think - could they be looking for volunteer chaperones? Europe’s lack of AC in a lot of “non Americanized” hotels might make for a sweaty trip in August. I absolutely hated going to Paris in either July or August for one of my jobs. There is a reason most of Europe tries to go on holiday in that month. Still - I would volunteer.

[ZagDad84]

Whatdda think - could they be looking for volunteer chaperones? Europe’s lack of AC in a lot of “non Americanized” hotels might make for a sweaty trip in August. I absolutely hated going to Paris in either July or August for one of my jobs. There is a reason most of Europe tries to go on holiday in that month. Still - I would volunteer.

I think the line for volunteer chaperones probably stretches to Coeur d' Alene by now.

I don't think any of the courts the Lady Zags played in on their last trip to Europe had A/C. At least the Truongs should be used to it after playing in SE Asia this late spring and summer.

Northern Europe is particularly bad when a high pressure system comes through, because so few areas have A/C. Much like Seattle, the number of days Northern Europe needs A/C is relatively small. In my experience, I never had a problem in London. In Paris, in my experience, about halt to 2/3's of the time I spent their in mid-summer no A/C was required. The worst areas I have been in the summer in Europe for high temperatures have been Rome (numerous days over 100), Naples and Barcelona. I have been in Dubrovnik a couple of times and while it was very nice, weather wise, I don't recall the temperatures being excessively high (say over low 80's) but i never spent a night there.

Just because a hotel (or other facility) says they have A/C does not mean they are going to let you use it. In our hotel in Rome, they simply turned the chilled water pumps off at night. You could get air movement from the room HVAC but no A/C. Energy conservation said the mgmt. Lesson, learn to pre-cool the room to a lower temperature before the A/C is turned off. Add an extra blanket if you need to. At the Barcelona airport, we showed up before 5:00 am for our flight back to the States. It was 87 Deg. in the airport at 5:00 am with no air movement or A/C. As we were boarding our flight at about 7:45 am, we heard the HVAC system start up and we got air movement and AC. The airport had simply shut the system down for night setback, even though the AP is open 24 hours per day for energy conservation. Not something you see here in the States very often.

ZagDad