Katja Bavendam
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| Full name | Katja Bavendam | |
| birthday | 2nd January 1985 | |
| place of birth | Hambergen, Germany | |
| size | 2.03 m | |
| position | center | |
Katja Bavendam (born January 2, 1985 in Hambergen ) is a former German national basketball player .
It was not until 1999 that she began her basketball career at BC VSK Osterholz-Scharmbeck. In 2002 she moved to the 2nd women's basketball league to the Hagen Huskies and the following year to BG Dorsten , where she won the German championship title with the U20. In 2004 she graduated from high school in Osterholz-Scharmbeck and moved to the United States at Saint Francis College in Brooklyn, New York. There she was voted Most Improved Player (player who has developed the most in one season) of St. Francis College in 2006.
The 2.03 m long athlete was one of the few women in Germany who mastered dunking .
Bavendam was a U20 national player and played at the Universiade 2005. At 63:65 in Nijmegen on August 25, 2007 against the Netherlands, she had her first appearance in the German A-basketball team . She was part of the squad for the 2007 European Championship in Chieti ( Italy ), but injured her knee in preparation for the tournament.
In 2008 Bavendam was reassigned to the national team and played in preparation for the European Championship qualification and in the qualifying matches for the European Championship.
On March 30, 2011 she suffered such a serious injury in a league game for the Spanish first division club Hondarribia-Irun that she had to end her active basketball career.
After her injury, she began a master's degree in logistics in New York. In 2016 she took part in the TV series "My Giant Life" about tall women on the US broadcaster TLC .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavendam is looking for the next dream job
- ↑ My GIANT Life - The world from above - The documentary from TLC - . In: TLC . ( tlc.de [accessed December 8, 2016]).
Web links
- Portrait and photo on informationen-marburg.de
- Portrait on www.fibaeurope.com
- Statistics on mahr.sb-vision.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bavendam, Katja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German national basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hambergen |