Jana Vollmer

Jana Vollmer
portrait
birthday	May 5th 1973
place of birth	Mladá Boleslav , Czechoslovakia
size	1.85 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Diagonal
societies
until 1990 1990–1993 1993–1994 1994–1995 1995–1999 1999–2000 2000–2001 2001–2003 2003–2004	Liberec US Sirio Perugia TSG Tübingen USC Münster Kanti Schaffhausen BTV Luzern VBC Glaronia Glarus Kanti Schaffhausen Volley Franches Montagnes
National team
70 times 6 times	Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic Germany
successes
1989: Czechoslovakian runner-up 1991: Italian runner-up 1992: Italian cup winner 1992: runner-up European cup winner 1993: runner-up European champion 1995: German runner-up 1997, 1998: Swiss runner-up
beach volleyball
Partner	Ines Pianka Danja Müsch Ulrike Schmidt Andrea Ahmann
society	TV Rottenburg
successes
1998: German Vice Champion 2000: Vice European Champion 2003: Vice European Champion 2003: German Vice Champion
Status: February 22, 2011

Jana Vollmer (* 5. May 1973 as Jana Pechová in Mladá Boleslav , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czechoslovak, Czech and German Volleyball -Nationalspielerin and German beach volleyball player .

Career indoor volleyball

Jana Pechová started playing volleyball in 1987 at the school and in the club in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, and was runner-up in 1989. From 1988 to 1992 she was a player in the Czechoslovak youth and junior national team with around 150 appearances. From 1989 to 1994 she played in the Czechoslovak (since 1993 Czech) women's national team with over 70 appearances, placing fifth at the 1991 European Championships in Italy and second at the 1993 European Championships in her own country. Jana Pechová played from 1991 to 1993 for the Italian club US Sirio Perugia , with whom she became Italian runner-up in 1991 and Italian cup winner and vice European cup winner in 1992 . In 1993 she moved to the German Bundesliga for TSG Tübingen , where Jana's father was a coach at the time. Here she also met her husband Andreas Vollmer (then co-trainer in Tübingen). In 1995 she became German runner- up with the USC Münster . In 1999 she also had six appearances in the German national volleyball team .

In 1995 Jana Vollmer moved to Switzerland, where she played with Kanti Schaffhausen , BTV Luzern , Glaronia Glarus , again Kanti Schaffhausen and Volley Franches-Montagnes until 2004 . During this time she was twice Swiss runner-up and three times Swiss volleyball player of the year.

Career beach volleyball

At the same time as indoor volleyball, Jana Vollmer started her beach volleyball career in 1997. She was German runner-up in 1998 (with Ines Pianka ) and 2003 (with Andrea Ahmann ) as well as European runner-up in 2000 (with Danja Müsch ) and 2003 (with Andrea Ahmann).

Knee problems

Jana Vollmer's volleyball career was interrupted several times due to problems with her knee. In 2005 she ended her career after 18 years.

Private

Jana Vollmer lives in Büsingen in the district of Konstanz near the border with the canton of Schaffhausen . She is married to volleyball coach Andreas Vollmer and has a daughter, Matilda.

Web links

• Portrait on beach-volleyball.de
• Interview on beach-volleyball.de
• Profile at the FIVB
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Schaffhauser Bock 2007