Jochen Schöps

As of September 18, 2013

Jochen Schoeps ( born October 8, 1983 in Villingen -Schwenningen ) is a German national volleyball player.

Career

Schoeps began his career with the TG Schwenningen, the club of his hometown. About the VC Offenburg he came to the volleyball boarding Frankfurt. He then played the VC Olympia Berlin before he moved to Bundesliga side VfB Friedrichshafen 2003. A year earlier he had been first used in the senior national team, with which he participated in the European Championships in Germany in 2003. In 2004 he won with VfB DVV Cup, in the next two years he won the Double twice. His participation in the 2006 World Cup in Japan first was in danger due to health reasons, but in the end he reached with the national team in ninth place. In 2007, he won with VfB Friedrichshafen next to the domestic double and the Champions League. He was elected most valuable player of the Champions League final and Germany's volleyball player of the year. He then moved to the Russian Superleague for VK Iskra Odintsovo. At the 2007 European Championships in his new home he was sporting with the DVV - fifth selection, and at the Olympic Games in Beijing in August 2008, he placed ninth. 2009 Jochen Schoeps was elected for the third time in a row for volleyball players of the year. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 he reached the fifth place. Then Schoeps joined the Polish club Asseco Resovia Rzeszów and was here in 2013 national champion.