The New Zealand women's inline hockey team finished third out of 19 teams at the recent world championships in California, but Tauranga-based star player Danielle Maunder believes the team could have finished even higher.
She partly puts the 4-2 loss to Canada at the mammoth Honda Centre down to being overawed inside the home of the NHL franchise Anaheim Ducks.
"We were just buzzing on being in there.
"We were in the away changing room and we felt like celebrities," said Maunder.
"The rink was just massive. We could have won it - it took us 10 minutes of the game to stop stressing out and actually play hockey - and in that time we conceded two goals.