Mari Carmen, a handball player in her youth, tells us how she initially got involved with sports.

Mari Carmen continues to tell us more details about her early days on the Guipúzcoa handball team and how she came to leave her administrative job to devote herself to athletics.

Mari Carmen tells us how commitment, camaraderie, and quality players led her team to twice take the Spanish Championship

This time, Mari Carmen tells us about the international women's handball championships in which she played in Stockholm, Sweden, and Vienna, Austria, and how impressed she was with these unique experiences abroad.

Through her experience as a champion handball player, Mari Carmen established an incredible bond with a group of women, who continue to meet to this day. In this video, she speaks to us about what their friendship means to her and how it has influenced her life.

According to Mari Carmen, her choice to attend a very regimented boarding school in the small village of Polanco to obtain her physical education degree could not have been a better one. Let's hear about her time there as well as her subsequent, rewarding experiences as an educator.