Kez Trantor, 25, is targeting victory at the World Dodgeball Championships in Austria.
Kez Trantor spends most of her day as a data analyst in Derby, but this summer she will be targeting success in her other area of expertise - dodgeball.
She missed the tournament in Croatia due to a knee injury, but Trantor is due to compete, and added: "We're in it to win it." Despite the size of the event and global reach of the sport, Trantor says most people have only ever heard of it because of the 2004 film, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. "I'm a data analyst and I feel you do get quite a lot of techies in dodgeball. Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe we've got something in common."Dodgeball world championships have been organised since 2016, and the Global Association of International Sports Federations - the umbrella organisation for all Olympic and non-Olympic sports - officially recognised dodgeball as a sport in 2017.
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