Background
She was eight years old and because her older brother Stijn and her father had been active in the sport of canoeing, she became a member of HWC Helmet sailors, the canoe club in Helmond.
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She started here with basic courses and later switched to canoe slalom. In Germany there was a year for Dutch scoutdag slalom young talents. She was eleven years old so it took another three years before she was allowed to do.
Participate in international junior competitions In those three years, they have trained a lot in Germany and the water was getting wilder.
On January 1, 2009 00:00 pm it finally happened and she thought, " Now I"m finally Junior". That year she also qualified directly for the European Championship juniors and juniors pre - World Cup.
In her second junior year, 2010, she was allowed to participate in the senior European Championships, World Championships and WorldCup.After that she included in the national senior selection and she has trained a lot with them. She was allowed to go to training camps in South Africa, weekends away for training, and she got a good guided training.
Two years she trained with the full-time program of seniors selection as a training base Augsburg, Germany.
The choice to run a full program was not difficult, she has anything to gain the summit. In those two years she had learned a lot on the training field but also in the field of elite athletes are. In order to combine all this, her final VWO she changed school. she has in her 2013 VWO diploma in the Chief Technology Officer - class of the Saint George "s College in Eindhoven.
