A Weekend to Remember for MRSM Athletes

Saturday belonged to Rapid București — and to two of our own. In a commanding 32:12 win over Știința in Liga Florilor, Mela Mehmedović delivered a perfect afternoon: six shots, six goals, flawless from the wing and on the fast break.

The same match carried a story within the story. Natalija Lekić, MVP of the EHF EURO U19, made her first appearance back in a Rapid shirt after her loan spell — against Știința, the very club where she spent the first half of the season. She marked the occasion with two goals and two assists.

Four MRSM players featured for Rapid in total. Tanja Ivanović was her usual reliable self, contributing a goal and an assist to the win. And Mia Vuksanović wrote a little history of her own: the young goalkeeper made her senior-team debut between the posts for Rapid — and even got on the scoresheet herself, scoring with a long-range strike into the empty net.

In Poland, Elena Mitrović continues to lead the entire LOTTO Superliga Kobiet scoring charts with 38 goals for Radomka Radom — six clear of anyone else — and has now been named MVP of the round three times this season. She is 19 years old.

In the EHF Champions League, Matea Šošo keeps running the show for HC Podravka: 35 goals and 31 assists put her among the competition's top-20 scorers, and the league has noticed — she has twice been named in the Champions League Team of the Round.

The scoring form stretches across the region. Ivana Vujadinović has 47 goals in eight Arkus league matches for Partizan, Dijana Mugoša is averaging four per game for SCM Universitatea Craiova, and Mia Grujić is carrying Ruma's attack in the league and the EHF European Cup alike.

And while her teammates collect goals, Martina Knežević has begun her road back: following ACL surgery, her rehabilitation is under way at the HumanPerformance clinic in Belgrade. Step by step — we're with her all the way.