Riikka Tiilikainen

Riikka Tiilikainen
portrait
Date of birth	October 9, 1990
place of birth	Porvoo, Finland
size	1.85 m
position	Diagonal
societies
until 2006 2006–2013 2013–2014	Porvoon NMKY Vanajan Racing Club VT Aurubis Hamburg
National team
	Junior national team A national team
successes
2007 2008	Finnish Champion Finnish Champion
As of November 7, 2014

Riikka Tiilikainen (born October 9, 1990 in Porvoo ) is a Finnish volleyball player .

Career

Tiilikainen started her career in her hometown at Porvoon NMKY. In 2006 she moved to the Vanajan Racing Club in Hämeenlinna . With the club, the diagonal attacker won the Finnish championship in 2007 and 2008. At the same time, she trained with the Finnish national youth team in Tampere during this time . Tiilikainen is now part of the senior national team in her country. In 2013 she was signed by the German Bundesliga club VT Aurubis Hamburg . With Hamburg she played in the European Challenge Cup and reached the third round. In the Bundesliga season , however, the club lost all games. Tiilikainen then ended her active career and now works as a scout for Aurubis Hamburg.

Web links

• Profile at Aurubis Hamburg
• Profile at CEV (English)
• Profile at Mestaruusliiga (Finnish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Bundesliga: Riikka Tiilikainen first Finn at VT Aurubis Hamburg. volleyballer.de, July 10, 2013, accessed on March 26, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Profile at Mestaruusliiga ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Finnish)