Stephanie Kestner

Stephanie Kestner
portrait
Date of birth	March 29, 1986
place of birth	Leipzig, GDR
size	1.84 m
position	Acceptance / outside
societies
1998-2012	SC Leipzig VC Olympia Dresden Dresdner SC
National team
	Junior national team
successes
2007 2007 2008 2009 2010 2010 2011	DVV cup finalist German champion German runner-up DVV cup finalist DVV cup winner winner Challenge Cup German runner-up
As of February 10, 2012

Stephanie Kestner (born March 29, 1986 in Leipzig ) is a former German volleyball player .

Career

Stephanie Kestner is the daughter of the GDR national player Wolfgang Kestner . She began her own sporting career at her home club SC Leipzig . In 1998 she went to Dresden, where she was initially trained in the VC Olympia youth team. She also played in the junior national team. In 2003, the young attacker's career was interrupted by a cruciate ligament tear . Nevertheless, she later came to the Bundesliga team of Dresdner SC . There she celebrated her first major successes in 2007 with the German championship and the entry into the final of the DVV Cup . In the next two years, the runner-up and participation in the cup final followed. In 2010, Kestner was involved in the greatest success of the DSC, which not only won the DVV Cup but also the Challenge Cup . In the same year she reached the World Cup final against Brazil with the national military team. In 2011, Dresden was again runner-up. However, the outside attacker suffered another cruciate ligament tear in March and had to end her volleyball career in February 2012.

Web links

• Profile at Dresdner SC

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Alexander Hiller: Faith returns. Sächsische Zeitung , October 16, 2003, accessed April 20, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Bundeswehr Sport-Magazin: 31st military world championships in women's volleyball  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Astrid Hofmann: The season is over for Stephanie Kestner. (No longer available online.) Dresdner Latest News , quoted from DSC website, March 8, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 29, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ^ Astrid Hofmann: DSC end of career for Stephanie Kestner and Nicole Schroeber. Dresdner Latest News , February 9, 2012, accessed on February 10, 2012 .