Edina Müller

Edina Müller (born 28 June 1983) is a German national player in wheelchair basketball. With the national team, she won bronze in 2006 and silver at the 2010 World Cup, three times European Champion 's ( 2007, 2009, 2011) and picked at the Paralympics 2008, the silver and the gold medal in 2012. With the women's national team, she was also voted 2008 Team of the Year in disabled sports and received by Horst Köhler, the highest German sports award - the Silver Laurel Leaf. It was also two -time U.S. champion (2006-2008) with their college team Fighting Illini ( UIUC ), brought in 2009 with the ASV Bonn the European Cup ( Willi Brinkmann Cup) and 2013 with Hamburger SV, the German championship.

Life

Raised in Brühl ( Rhineland ), she made her Abitur in 2003 at the Max -Ernst -Gymnasium. Müller began her wheelchair basketball career in 2003. She is a paraplegic since 2000. After some successful experiments in the sporting wheelchair tennis ( 1st Hungarian Open 2005), the former volleyball player (BTV Brühl) decided to team sports and focused on basketball. In 2004 she began her graduate studies and athletic, she started for the ASV Bonn in the Regionalliga. With a lot of game experience, including double license from the TG Neuss and the RSC Cologne (now RBC Köln99ers ), she made fast progress and played the 2005/ 06 Bundesliga season with their first ASV Bonn. In that year she was invited for the first time by coach Holger Glinicki for a course. The following year, she made it to the national team and won at the World Championships in Amsterdam bronze.

The Canadian success coach Michael Frogley (Coach of the Canadian Men's National Team, Coach Fighting Illini Wheelchair Basketball ( UIUC )) was aware of them and brought them in 2006 at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign where she for the women's college team Fighting Illini wheelchair Basketball played. In both years they won with the team the National Championship. During the semester break, she traveled with the women's national team to tournaments and preparation camps. 2007, the German women in their own country ( Wetzlar ) were European champions.

Müller graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois and moved back to Germany.

In September 2008, she participated in the Paralympics in Beijing, where he was beaten only by their former team-mates and opponents from the U.S.. She took a Paralympic silver. After the Paralympics, she was elected to the national "Team of the Year" and received by Federal President Horst Köhler, the silver laurel leaf - Germany's highest sporting honor.

In 2009 she defended with the national team in Stoke Mandeville, England and brought their European Championship title in 2009 with the ASV Bonn the European Cup in Valladolid, Spain ( Willi Brinkmann Cup). In 2010, she Vice World Champion and 2011 European Champion again.

At the Paralympics in 2012 Müller won the gold medal with the German team. With the Hamburger SV, for which she plays since 2011, she won the 2013 German Championship.

Achievements

  • 2006: Bronze World Cup (Amsterdam, NED )
  • 2007: Gold National Championship ( Warm Springs, USA)
  • 2007: Gold Championship ( Wetzlar, GER )
  • 2008: Gold National Championship ( Champaign, USA)
  • 2008: Silver Paralympics (Beijing, CHINA)
  • 2009: Gold Championship (Stoke Mandeville, England )
  • 2010: Silver World Championship (Birmingham, England )
  • 2011: Gold Championship ( Nazareth, ISR)
  • 2012: Gold Paralympics (London, GBR)

Awards

  • 2008: Team of the Year in disabled sports
  • 2008: Silver bay leaf
  • 2009: Entry in the Golden Book of the city of Brühl
  • 2009: Award NRW Sports Foundation
  • 2012: Hamburg's sportswoman of the year
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