Amber Rolfzen

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Amber Rolfzen
2017-03-18 Amber Rolfzen, Erin Johnson by Sandro Halank.jpg
Amber Rolfzen (left) together with Erin Johnson , 2017
portrait
Date of birth August 25, 1994
place of birth Papillion , Nebraska , United States
size 1.92 m
position Diagonal attack
societies
2013–2016
2016–2017
2017–2018
2018–2019
2019–2020 		Nebraska Huskers
Dresdner SC
Béziers Volley
Saint-Raphaël VAR
Chieri ´76 Volleyball Volleyball
National team
2017 A national team
successes
2015
2016
2017
2018 		American Championship
1st place Big Ten Conference
Winner Pan-American Cup
French Championship

As of December 19, 2018

Amber Rolfzen (born August 25, 1994 in Papillion , Nebraska ) is a former American volleyball player .

Career

Rolfzen began her career in 2013 with the Nebraska Huskers team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , where she played on the position of the diagonal attack. During her time with the Huskers, the diagnostic attackers received the Nebraska Student-Athlete HERO Leadership Award (2014), was elected to several All-Star teams and won the national championship (2015) as well as first place in the Big Ten Conference (2016). In November 2016, she lost with the Nebraska Huskers team in the semi-finals of the national championship in Ohio and thus missed the title defense.

After graduating from the University of Nebraska at the end of 2016, the reigning German champions and cup winners Dresdner SC announced the commitment of Amber Rolfzen on December 29th of that year. She received a contract until the end of the current 2016/17 season. There Rolfzen reached third place with the team in the championship standings. She then moved to France to Béziers Volley . At the end of the season, the team became French champions for the first time, before moving to league rivals Saint-Raphaël VAR Volley-Ball for the 2018/19 season. With the club she managed to get into the play-off games with 7th place in the main round, where she was subject to the RC Cannes in the second round . Rolfzen left the club after one season and joined the Italian first division club Chieri '76 volleyball . After the current season was canceled on March 7, 2020 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic , Rolfzen left the club in mid-March with immediate effect and announced the end of her career in April 2020.

In 2017 Rolfzen played for the US national team in the Pan-American Cup , which the Americans won.

Private

Her parents are Mark and Teresa Rolfzen, her sister Kadie Rolfzen is also a volleyball player. The identical twins were together in the squad of the Nebraska Huskers and were also together in the squad of the Dresdner SC in 2016/17.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolfzen twins strengthen Dresdner SC. (No longer available online.) Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , December 29, 2016, archived from the original on December 29, 2016 ; accessed on December 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ US twins for the DSC. Radio Dresden , December 29, 2016, accessed on December 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Dresdner SC confirmed: US twins at the volleyball champions. Focus , December 29, 2016, accessed December 29, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Steffen Grimm: Gold not at any price! DSC will not go into debt for success. In: tag24.de. TAG24 , April 20, 2017, accessed May 16, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Amber Rolfzen signe à Béziers au poste de centrale et vient ainsi grossir les rangs des Angels. Bezieres Volley, June 27, 2017, accessed December 31, 2017 (French).
  6. ↑ Symone Abbott and Amber Rolfzen Sign in France. Volleymob, June 20, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018 .
  7. ^ Pallavolo, Millenium Brescia: le centrali Speech e Veltman tornano nei rispettivi paesi. In: bsnews.it. Bsnews, March 16, 2020, accessed April 12, 2020 (Italian).
  8. ↑ Astrid Hofmann: Volleyball player Kadie Rolfzen from Dresdner SC ends her career. In: sportbuzzer.de. Sportbuzzer, April 7, 2020, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  9. ↑ 2017 Rosters. In: teamusa.org. Team USA, accessed December 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Rolfzen, Amber
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Papillion , Nebraska