Atika Bouagaa

Atika Bouagaa
Tronquet / DVV
portrait
Date of birth	May 22, 1982
place of birth	Offenburg, Germany
size	1.81 m
position	External attack / adoption
societies
–2000 2000–2001 2001–2004 2004–2005 2005–2007 2007–2008 2008 2009–2011	VC Offenburg SV Sinsheim VC Olympia Sinsheim USC Münster Volley Modena USC Münster Beşiktaş Istanbul Voley Sanse Mepaban Smart Allianz Stuttgart
National team
141 missions for the	A national team
successes
2002 2003 2004 2004 2004 2006 2007 2011	World Cup participant, third in the European Championship, German champion, DVV Cup winner, Olympic participant in World Cup, sixth in the DVV Cup
As of February 15, 2019

Atika Bouagaa (born May 22, 1982 in Offenburg ) is a former German national volleyball player .

Career

Atika Bouagaa started her career in her hometown at VC Offenburg and later moved to Sinsheim. The association recognized her talent and took her on to the Olympic team, in which young players in the Bundesliga are specifically promoted. At the same time she experienced two European and one world championships with the juniors. In 2001, the outside attacker moved to USC Münster . Now she has also been appointed to the senior national team, with which she experienced the 2002 World Cup in her own country. A year later, however, she was able to celebrate her greatest success so far at the European Championships in Turkey , when Germany finished third. She won the double with her club in 2004. Then she took part with the DVV selection after qualifying as the “Miracle of Baku ” at the Olympic Games in Athens . After the games she moved to Volley Modena in Italy . However, she did not feel at home there and therefore returned to Münster in 2005. In the national team, she took a year off due to injuries. She was back at the 2006 World Cup in Japan, but couldn't prevent the team from finishing only eleventh. In summer 2007 she won the European Grand Prix qualification with the team and finished sixth at the European Championships in Belgium and Luxembourg. In the 2007/08 season Atika Bouagaa played in Istanbul. In 2008 she played a few months in Madrid with Voley Sanse Mepaban . From 2009 to 2011 she played again in Germany for Allianz MTV Stuttgart and was DVV cup winner in 2011 .

Private

Atika Bouagaa is one of four children of Tunisian immigrants. In August 2006, the trained insurance saleswoman was appointed integration ambassador by the DOSB .

Web links

• Atika Bouagaa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Information from DVV about Atika Bouagaa
• DOSB - Integration through Sport, Interview 2006
• DOSB portrait (PDF; 250 kB)
• Ranking list 2002 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 106 kB)
• Ranking list 2003 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 385 kB)
• Ranking list 2004 ( Memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 170 kB)
• Ranking list 2006 ( Memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 64 kB)