Claudia Volkers

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Claudia Volkers
portrait
Date of birth 15th September 1971
place of birth Nordhorn, Germany
position External attack
societies
SCU Emlichheim
successes

1990

1998
2003 		Five-time German youth
champion Vice European youth champion
Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga
Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga
Championship 2nd Bundesliga

As of January 11, 2011

Claudia Volkers (* September 15, 1971 as Claudia Rakers in Nordhorn ) is a former German volleyball player .

Career

Claudia Volkers started playing volleyball when she was ten at SCU Emlichheim . In the following years she took part in ten German youth championships, five of which she won with the club from Grafschaft Bentheim . In addition, she won the national finals of youth trained for the Olympics twice with the Emlichheim secondary school . In 1990, the outside attacker rose to the second Bundesliga North with the SCU , and in the same year she became vice European champion with the youth national team. In 1998 Claudia Volkers was promoted to the first Bundesliga with the club from Lower Saxony , after relegation in 2002, the mother of two daughters with Emlichheim was second division champion again the following season. In the next few years Volkers smashed for the second team of the SCU before she ended her active career.

Private

Even after the end of her career, Claudia Volkers continues to support volleyball in the town on the Vechte . The former Bundesliga player works on the board of the volleyball department of the SCU. She is also assistant coach of the second division team and coach of the regional league team. Her daughters Dana and Lona and her niece Pia Timmer have been part of the SCU Bundesliga squad since the 2014/15 season .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.smash-hamburg.de/news/2003/quartal-03-3/news-2003-08-01.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.sv-badlaer-volleyball.de/pdf/2008-09_7.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.volleyball-bundesliga.de/cms/home/2blnf/2blnf_clubsspieler/2blnf_mannschaften.xhtml?226160.teamId=8750393&226160.view=teamMain#samsCmsComponent_226160
personal data
SURNAME Volkers, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH 15th September 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhorn