Ulrike Schmidt (volleyball player)

Ulrike Schmidt
portrait
birthday	March 30, 1969
place of birth	Remscheid , Germany
size	1.79 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Middle block
societies
1983–1987 1987–1990 1990–1992 1992–1993 1993–1998 1998–2000	TG RE Schwelm TV Hörde USC Munster TSG Tuebingen USC Munster Bayer 04 Leverkusen
National team
75 times	A national team
successes
1990 - Participation in the World Cup in China 1991 - German cup winner 1992 - German champion , European cup winner 1993 - 5th place EM in Brno 1994 - CEV cup winner 1996 - German champion and cup winner, CEV cup winner 1997 - German champion and cup winner 1998 - indoor volleyball player of the year
beach volleyball
Partner	Maike Friedrichsen Gudula Staub
successes
German champion 1996, 1998, 2000 German runner-up 1994, 1997, 1999 1996–2003 - A total of 14 DVV Masters victories in 1998 - 5th place FIVB World Tour in Portugal 1999 - 7th place FIVB World Tour in Brazil 1999 - 5th place World Championship Marseille 1999 - 4th place European Championship 2000 - 4th place Berlin 2000 - 9th place Olympic Games Sydney 2000 - Beach volleyball player of the year 2001 - 3rd place European championship 1997–2002 - 34 tournaments FIVB World Tour
As of November 19, 2012

Ulrike Schmidt (born March 30, 1969 in Remscheid ; today Ulrike Koppers ) is a former German volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career

Schmidt began her active career in the hall in 1983 with TG Roten Erde Schwelm and as a beach player in 1994. In the hall she played very successfully for TV Hörde , USC Münster , TSG Tübingen and Bayer 04 Leverkusen . With the USC Münster she was three times German champion, three times DVV Cup winner and three times European Cup winner. She achieved her greatest successes in the sand with Maike Friedrichsen (1994–95) and with Gudula Staub (1996–2000), with whom she finished ninth at the Olympic Games in Sydney . Ulrike Schmidt won the bronze medal with Andrea Ahmann at the 2001 European Championships . In September 2004 she finished her activities with a fifth place at the German Beach Volleyball Championships in Timmendorfer Strand . She was named Sportswoman of the Year by the Sports Association of the City of Münster at the 1995 Sports Ball. In 2007, she was named the most valuable player of the last 20 years in the German Bundesliga in the “eternal” leaderboard of the volleyball magazine.

Schmidt is a qualified sports teacher, sports and tourism manager and has an A-trainer license from the DVV. She was responsible for the DVV as national coach for the youth work (male U18 / U19). At the West German Volleyball Association (WVV) she was the state association trainer for beach volleyball until 2016.

Web links

• Ranking lists: 1990 (pdf; 3.16 MB) - 1991 (pdf; 2.73 MB) - 1992 (pdf; 2.81 MB) - 1993 (pdf; 1.98 MB) - 1994 (pdf; 3.92 MB ) - 1995 (pdf; 111 kB) - 1996 (pdf; 102 kB) - 1997 (pdf; 210 kB) - 1998 (pdf; 124 kB) - 20 years (pdf; 371 kB)
• European Cup winner 1992 (pdf; 1.3 MB)
• Münster's Triple 1996 (pdf; 7.5 MB)
• Portrait on beach-volleyball.de
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Ulrike Schmidt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : The last round has started - high-speed final spurt: Many candidates are already giving full throttle in the new year , Münster's athlete of the year 2012, January 30, 2013