Sally Potocki
Personal information
Born (1989-02-08) 8 February 1989 (age 35)
Melbourne, Australia
Nationality Australian
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current club Bayer Leverkusen
Senior clubs
Years Team
2016–2019
Bayer Leverkusen
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2019
Australia 32 (157)

Sally Potocki is an active beach handball player and a retired Australian Indoor handball player who last played professionally for Bayer Leverkusen in 1. Bundesliga and the Australian national team.

During her time at BVB Dortmund Potocki captained the team. She was co-captained of Bayer Leverkusen.

She represented and captained Australia at the 2019 IHF world championships in Japan, she also participated in the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia and 2007 in France. In 2018 after a 6 years break from playing for Australia, she returned to the squad for the Asian Championships in Japan where she was the top scorer of the tournament and largely contributed to helping Australia qualify for their first World Championships since 2013. Potocki returned to Japan with the Australian team for the IHF World Championships 2019.[1][2]

Potocki previously played basketball professionally. Between 2007 and 2011, she played for the Sydney Uni Flames of the Australian Women's National Basketball League.[3] Potocki was also part of the Opal's squad.


In 2023 Potocki started playing Beach handball and represented Australia at the Oceanian Beach Handball Championships.

Statistics

Year Club Games played 7m (scored/shot) Total Goals Yellow card 2 minutes Red card
2017–2018 Bayer Leverkusen 25 45/53 105 6 8 0
2016–2017 Bayer Leverkusen 25 8/12 58 14 11 0
2015–2016 BVB Dortmund 09 26 1/1 29 12 13 0
2014–2015 BVB Dortmund 09 22 20/26 100 7 10 0
2013–2014 BVB Dortmund 09 27 1/1 89 20 12 0

References

  1. ^ "Australia arrive in Japan for 24th IHF Women's World Championship". handballaustralia.org.au. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  2. ^ 2019 World Women's Handball Championship squad
  3. ^ Sally Potocki – WNBL