Zehlendorfer Wespen wU16 — German champions 2026
The road to the title ran through three rounds. We finished the Berlin main round third and won the Berlin final round (6:0 in the final against Berliner HC); as the East's No. 1 seed we won intermediate round C against Rot-Weiss Köln and MTV Braunschweig; and at the Youth Finals in Mönchengladbach we beat HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim in a penalty shootout and Münchner SC in the final. It was the Wespen's first German field title in this age group — the girls' U16 had won the indoor championship in 2021/22 — and the first girls' U16 field final for both clubs in this millennium — and my twin sister Elena was in the team with me.
Road to the title
- 25 Oct 20262:1 Münchner SC — final, Hockeypark Mönchengladbach (match report · video)
- 24 Oct 20268:7 pen. HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim — semi-final (video)
- 18 Oct 20262:1 MTV Braunschweig — intermediate round C, final (video)
- 17 Oct 20266:3 Rot-Weiss Köln — intermediate round C, semi-final (video)
- 27 Sep 20266:0 Berliner HC — Berlin championship final (results)
Press: Deutsche Hockey Zeitung, 27 Oct 2026, pp. 8–9, “Erfolgreiche Titelmission bringt Wespen-Premiere” (Weibliche U16: Zehlendorfer Wespen erstmals Deutscher Meister) — national coach Markus Lonnes saw the Wespen play “wie auf einer Titelmission”.