The goals scored by star-sponsored player Patrick Wiencek are also doubly welcome during the current Bundesliga season 2016/2017: it's not only the THW fans in the arena who have reason to celebrate each time the 28-year-old pivot player scores, but also the little patients and the employees on the children's cancer ward at Schleswig-Holstein University Medical Centre.

 

"The player sponsorship at THW Kiel means a lot to us," explains Wieslaw Milkiewicz, Managing Director and Press Officer at petrol station brand star. "In this way, we combine our sponsorship commitment at Germany's most successful handball club with work for a particularly good cause. Thanks to our partner, Schleswig-Holstein University Medical Centre, we can also be certain that our donations make it directly to those who benefit most from them: the sick children. That is why we are happy to round up the amount to 10,000 euros again this season." In the five years that the player sponsorship has now been going on, this means that THW has brought in a total of 39,000 euros.

 

Last September, during their annual visit to Kiel's children's cancer ward, Patrick Wiencek and Wieslaw Milkiewicz were able to see the results of their commitment with their own eyes: the medical equipment to assist the mobility of the sick children, paid for by star petrol stations over the years, is now located in a separate equipment room. Thanks to the donation from the 2015/2016 season, a rowing machine and a treadmill have been added.

 

This year's presentation of the donation cheque took place during the half-time break of the THW Bundesliga home game against Füchse Berlin on 14 May in the Sparkassen Arena in Kiel. In the new 2017/2018 season, Wiencek will once again be seeking goals and raising donations along with star petrol stations. In 2016, the partnership between star and THW Kiel was extended for another three years.