Posts by Matthias

    Romy Jatzko said in one interview (volleynews.it I think) that she will be with NT this year.

    Oh right I totally forgot about her because of her playing abroad. She certainly deserves an invitation, she did well in Universiade last year and also her stats in China looked decent :win:

    As first news for the summer, DVV announced that Konstantin Bitter will be the new head coach of U23 NT. Germany will host Universiade 2025, so the goal is to prepare a team with young talents for that tournament. I wonder what this decision means for Alex Waibl who was coach of the last U23/Universiade team :/


    On other news, the official list of NT athletes has been updated on DVV site. The federation has to give an official list every year to the German Olympic Sports Federation, it has something to do with financial support and also doping controls. Last year the list predicted the actual team roster fairly well, so here we go:


    Vanessa Agbortabi

    Lina Alsmeier

    Anastasia Cekulaev

    Annie Cesar

    Laura Emonts

    Marie Hänle

    Anne Hölzig

    Corina Glaab

    Lena Große Scharmann

    Pia Kästner

    Hannah Kohn

    Rica Maase

    Patricia Nestler

    Hanna Orthmann

    Anna Pogany

    Marie Schölzel

    Antonia Stautz

    Lena Stigrot

    Sarah Straube

    Monique Strubbe

    Luisa Van Clewe

    Ivana Vanjak

    Camilla Weitzel

    Emilia Weske


    Laura Emonts probably is pregnant so she's not going to play this summer. Orthmann and Hölzig are still recovering from ACL injuries so it's questionable if and when they join NT.


    Kimberly Drewniok is not on the list again, so I guess it's questionable if she'll return once again this summer.


    Other than the mentioned players I can see Lena Kindermann (OPP, Suhl), Pia Timmer (OH, Dresden) and Elena Kömmling (OH, Münster) getting an invitation. Not too many options around in Germany unfortunately...

    Playoff QFs start next weekend, the TV match will be Stuttgart-Münster :| On Wednesday after, Wiesbaden-Dresden will be the TV match which might be more interesting. But then, probably only the Potsdam-Suhl series is not completely predictable, in the other match-ups the big teams shouldn't have too much trouble.

    is Dresdner statistician in PMS this days?

    He doesn't seem to know how to code perfect receptions, all of Dresden's home matches are without perfect reception. The league have some official statisticians who make their own stats of all games which are uploaded usually 1-2 days after the matches, in those everything is correct.

    Intermediate round 1-5

    Dresden - Potsdam 3:1 (21:25 25:18 25:13 25:20)

    https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2023-24/Women/2208.pdf

    MVP: Tia Jimerson / Antonia Stautz


    Suhl - Schwerin 3:2 (23:25 25:19 28:26 19:25 15:13)

    https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2023-24/Women/2209.pdf

    MVP: Roosa Laakkonen / Jazmine White


    Ranking:

    1 SSC Palmberg Schwerin 4 2 10:10 18

    2 Allianz MTV Stuttgart 4 2 10:6 17

    3 Dresdner SC 4 3 11:8 14

    4 SC Potsdam 4 2 7:9 8

    5 VfB Suhl LOTTO Thüringen 4 1 6:11 3


    Intermediate round 6-9

    Aachen - Wiesbaden 1:3 (18:25 25:21 22:25 20:25)

    https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2023-24/Women/2310.pdf

    MVP: Jolijn De Haan / Rachel Anderson

    Nina Herelova suffered a knee injury in 2nd set :( She missed the full 21/22 season due to ACL, I hope it's not the same injury again.


    Ranking:

    6 VC Wiesbaden 6 4 14:10 21

    7 USC Münster 6 4 14:9 19

    8 Rote Raben Vilsbiburg 6 2 10:15 9

    9 Ladies in Black Aachen 6 2 10:14 5


    Playoff Quarterfinals:

    Schwerin vs Vilsbiburg

    Stuttgart vs Münster

    Dresden vs Wiesbaden

    Potsdam vs Suhl

    Maybe it is the right moment to start with a local player rule. Most of the american players come to Germany in the age of 22 or 23 - diretly from university. But only few german players are still playing on profi level in this age - the players that could compete in first league in the age of 18 to 20. Ok some of the "little weaker" players go their way to american universities, but most of the talents change their plans for the future and stop playing volleyball on profi levels.

    I don't know the rules for 2nd league pro, perhaps it is a chance for still playing and training on a level not far away from profi level but ...

    But that also implies a drop of level. How many young German players really have the level to play in 1st league these days? Even a player like Helena Dornheim spent most of the time on bench of a weak team, what's the point of having her on court only because she is German? Matches are important, but players have to work for achieving enough quality in training, and if they don't get there a local player quota won't solve any problems IMO.

    Vilsbiburg - Münster 1:3 (18:25 25:20 21:25 21:25)

    https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2023-24/Women/2311.pdf

    MVP: Monika Salkute / Zoe Fleck


    Last matches of intermediate round tomorrow. Suhl-Schwerin will decide about 1st place, Schwerin needs to win 2 sets. Dresden-Potsdam (TV match at 17:00 CET, stream) will decide about 3rd place, Potsdam can take it if they win with 3 pts. In the lower half Wiesbaden needs to beat Aachen to take 6th place.

    Someone else did not see the match . She had 6 reception when Sylla had 31 and Cazaute 24. Probably the others was trying to cover her not not her. And Finally all of you stop to jelous so much Moki because your NT does not have such a libero. Who is the best has been proven on the pitch and recorded so that we can see it. Castillo is really good in the reception the best in the world right now but she is poor in setting and in defence just it has to do with her days. Today was poor in digging and generally in everything.

    That's the dumbest thing I read in a long time :aww: Nobody in their right mind serves to Castillo when the other option is Sylla, so of course Castillo has only 6 attempts. With such low number of receptions the %pos/perf doesn't have any significance at all, and certainly neither Sylla nor Cazaute would ever try to cover Castillo :rolll:


    Go watch the highlight video of the match on Youtube, in those 8 minutes there are already plenty of amazing plays by Castillo. I doubt that she was terrible for the other 76 minutes of the match :whistle:

    Random question, but maybe someone here can give me an answer:)


    Based on the teams Elke Wijnhoven played for, she seemed like a great libero. As far as I remember Janneke van Tienen always was the main libero for Dutch NT in the past. For the ones who watched them both play: which one of the two was the better libero? :/

    Wow that's loooong ago ^^ As far as I remember Wijnhoven was better and Van Tienen only became main libero of NT once Wijnhoven retired there.

    Intermediate round 1-5

    Schwerin - Stuttgart 3:2 (25:23 28:26 22:25 23:25 15:12)

    https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2023-24/Women/2207.pdf

    MVP: Nova Marring / Krystal Rivers


    Potsdam - Suhl 3:1 (25:21 23:25 25:13 25:21)

    https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2023-24/Women/2206.pdf

    MVP: Danielle Harbin / Roosa Laakkonen


    Intermediate round 6-9

    Wiesbaden - Vilsbiburg 3:1 (29:27 15:25 25:23 25:23)

    https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2023-24/Women/2308.pdf

    MVP: Nina Herelova / Pauline Martin