Yvonne Frank

Yvonne Frank ( born February 7, 1980 in Duisburg ) is a German hockey goalkeeper and national team.

Life

At the age of four years, Frank was still playing football, the SV Duissern, under the supervision of her father, the head coach of the club. With ten years you finally joined the field hockey and started her career at the club Raffelberg Duisburg. After graduating from high school she attended from 1999-2002 training at the Cologne police. After her move to Hamburg, she works as a Police Commissioner in the upper transport services of Hamburg Police.

Sporting career

Yvonne Frank started at the club Raffelberg and played by the youth to the Bundesliga. In 2004 she transferred to Rot-Weiss Cologne, the Cologne city was German champion in 2007. After the 2008 Olympics, where she did not make the leap into the final squad, she moved in 2009 to Uhlenhorster HC to Hamburg.

Yvonne Frank debuted in 2002 in the German national hockey team. Received your first use she made at the European Indoor Championships, where she contributed to winning the title. A year later, she was with the German team's World Indoor champion. In the following years she worked at many large outdoor tournaments this. In 2005, she became vice European Champion, 2006 she won the FIH Champions Trophy. In 2007, the German team to win the European Championship in Manchester and in 2008 she finished with the German team took second place at the Champions Trophy in Mönchengladbach.

Yvonne Frank has completed more than 112 international matches, including 6 in the hall. (As of August 2, 2012 ) At the Olympic Summer Games 2012 in London, London Frank is in her second Olympic participation stem goalkeeper.

Honors

4 times the NRW police Sportswoman of the Year (2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007)