Jennifer Geerties - Best Volleyball Actions 2019 | Women's Volleyball

Jennifer Geerties - Best Volleyball Actions 2019 | Women's Volleyball

Jennifer Janiska (born April 5, 1994) is a German volleyball player. The outside attacker became vice-European champion with the German national team and won the European League. At club level she won several times the German championship and the DVV Cup as well as the Club World Championship with Conegliano. In the 2020/21 season she plays for Dresdner SC.

Geerties joined volleyball through a classmate in her first year of school and began her career at SCU Emlichheim. At the age of 14, she made her first appearance in the Second Bundesliga North and the following year she was firmly part of the club's second division squad.[1] In 2010 she moved to the base team VC Olympia Berlin. There she was first in the Second League and in the Bundesliga season 2011/12 captain of the junior team.

She was also part of the U18 national team that finished fourth at the 2011 European Championship in Ankara. Geerties was awarded as the best player of the tournament. Subsequently, she was nominated as the only player in the U18 for the world Cup-qualification of the U20 national team. At the U18 World Cup, which was also held in Ankara, the captain led her team to fifth place.

In February 2012, a protrusion of the intervertebral disc was found in Geerties, which was treated with physiotherapy. After a worsening of the situation, the player decided to have an operation despite the impending end of her career, which caused her to miss several months. She made her debut in the A-League at the Montreux tournament in the summer. With the DVV selection, she won the European League 2013 and subsequently became vice-European champion at the European Championships in Germany.

Geerties signed with the Rote Raben Vilsbiburg of the German Bundesliga for the 2013-14 season. With the club from Lower Bavaria, she won the DVV Cup in the final against VolleyStars Thüringen. In the playoff final against Dresdner SC she was also German runner-up. With the national team, she reached the final of the 2014 European League and finished ninth at the World Cup in Italy.


 

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