Ivana Vanjak

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Ivana Vanjak
portrait
Date of birth May 30, 1995
place of birth Frankfurt , Germany
size 1.93 m
position External attack / adoption
societies
until 2012, 2017
2012–2013
2013–2017
2017–2020
TG Bad Soden
1. VC Wiesbaden
Stanford University
USC Münster
National team
19 times A national team
successes
2016
2018
NCAA Champion
World Cup eleventh

As of March 18, 2020

Ivana Vanjak (born May 30, 1995 in Frankfurt ) is a German-Croatian volleyball player .

Career

Vanjak played in her youth for the TG Bad Soden . In the 2012/13 season she was in the squad of the Bundesliga club 1. VC Wiesbaden . She then went to the United States, where she played for Stanford University in Palo Alto , California . In 2016, she and her team became the "NCAA Women's Division I Champion". In the spring of 2017 Vanjak had a short assignment in the German 2nd Bundesliga with her home club TG Bad Soden. For the 2017/18 season, the outside attacker moved to the Bundesliga club USC Münster . In the away game on November 21, 2018 at SC Potsdam , Vanjak suffered a cruciate ligament rupture , so she was out for the rest of the season. In 2020 she left USC Münster with an unknown destination.

Since 2018 Vanjak has also played in the German national team , with which she reached eleventh place at the World Cup in Japan .

Private

Vanjak's parents are from Croatia . Her three siblings are also very active in sports and play volleyball and basketball.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Thomas Rellmann: Ivana Vanjak is supposed to replace Orthmann at the USC. Westfälische Nachrichten, August 11, 2017, accessed on October 11, 2017 .
  2. Henner Henning: The USC are defeated by Schwerin with 0: 3 and have to do without Ivana Vanjak for a long time. Westfälische Nachrichten, November 24, 2018, accessed on November 27, 2018 .
  3. Wilfried Sprenger: Ivana Vanjak leaves the USC. Westfälische Nachrichten, March 18, 2020, accessed on March 18, 2020 .