Danique Hamming has extended her contract with Sudosa Assen. The volleyball star starts her tenth season in the first women’s team of the Drentse club.
Although Hamming made her debut in the Dutch team this summer season, the Libero returns to her familiar club in Assen after the summer. “Sudosa is a really special club. We have a club feeling, everyone knows each other and supports each other. I really like that,” says Hamming. “In addition, not only the atmosphere is nice, but also the performance is good. The club has really taken steps, because we are even playing Eredivisie now.”
Trainer and coach Stefan van der Veen is happy that Hamming will remain a season. “She is really a child of the club. She has a huge drive and always puts that step extra, both in the field and outside the field. She is quickly on the floor and really has the will to get even better.”
Through Hamming her steps at Oranje and at Papendal it was still a matter of waiting for the coach to play in Assen again this season. “She has really ambition and we will always encourage her to make the best choice. But of course it is nice that we have her back in the team this season.”
Hamming is now going to play her tenth season with ladies 1, but she is not the only one who has been playing in the team for a long time. “We are building the future of the team together. That makes it extra special, because my teammates are really girlfriends,” says Hamming.
Hamming made her debut for Oranje during the Nations League match in Apeldoorn. “Last summer season I trained at Orange five days a week, in a new environment with new players. That was very nice and I was able to develop myself further, but it is also nice that, now that the club season starts again, I go back to the club feeling at Sudosa Assen.”
Playing regular players at Oranje, almost all, internationally and earning their money with volleyball, but Hamming just has to work again as the club season as a nurse in psychiatry. “At first I made very irregular hours, luckily I can now work at regular times and I notice that that is very nice with the sport next to it. Yet it will take some getting used to after the summer,” says Hamming.
Because Hamming trained at Oranje this summer, she missed part of the preparations at Sudosa. Yet she does have ambitions with the team. “Of course we always go for the championship, but you can never say that with certainty. We would also like to see how we can really peak in the second half of the competition this season.” But the advantage is in the team, according to Hamming. “This year we will keep a large part of the old team together and who knows, we might have a lead with that club feeling.”