Avocations of Alexandra

Looking at the facts of this Test in the future, you would think that they were crazy and wonder how on earth we achieved them. England’s first innings of the 3 rd Test at Headlingley left me worrying away my hopes of going to watch the fourth day of the Ashes in a café in the Netherlands as the fall of wickets never stopped and we found ourselves all out for 67, which is less than half of what Ben Stokes managed to achieve in our second innings staggeringly.  In fact I had not had a massive amount of time to build up to this series-deciding match, I was only given two weeks to look forward to it, having been surprised with the tickets on my birthday. I was anxiously checking up on the score of the Test in the first three days non-stop, whether I found myself watching Feyenoord or Hull City, which with WiFi in football stadiums was quite the struggle. At the end of the third day Joe Root had been solid the whole innings and Ben Stokes had faced 50 balls and was only on 2 not ...

Racketlon is a sport that in my opinion is massively under the radar despite the challenge and excitement it brings compared to many others. It involves playing the four sports of table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis to 21 points and the overall winner is who comes out of the four games with the most points. I was introduced to racketlon at a squash tournament a few years ago by one of the many players I have come up against and for a while after that I thought it was something I was going to change my focus to after a tough spell for me in squash dealing with my asthma.  A year or so on from that I decided to enter a tournament and see whether I would suit this format and be able to cope with the different demands each sport required. Being a squash player since the age of six and having played many tournaments over the years, this will always be my best sport and at the time the other three were grouped together at the bottom of my abilities apart from playing some s...

My name is Alexandra, better known as Lexie, and I am a squash and racketlon player, an avid reader but most importantly to me, a lifelong Hull City fan.  I have been able to call myself one of those as soon as I could talk as I did in fact have a season pass for the club before I was born as my birthday is in August when the season begins. For me football is what provides me with the most memories of my childhood, and despite the fact that I can remember absolutely zero of that play off final because apparently my three year old self didn’t consider that an important enough event, there is no past memory that is a negative one. The atmosphere of the past in the KC Stadium is one of the many reasons that I love football, how so many people can come together in support of one team, I used to have to cover my ears when the teams came out because of how much noise the stadium would generate, oh how times have changed. The routine of a Saturday is one of the distinctive things...