Angie Geschke

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Angie Geschke
Personal information
Full name Angie Birgit Geschke
Born (1985-05-24) 24 May 1985 (age 40)
Lübeck, Germany
Nationality German
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Left wing
Club information
Current clubRetired
Youth career
Team
TuS Lübeck 93
–2000
SC Buntekuh Lübeck
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2000–2007
Frankfurter HC
2007–2008
Randers HK
2008–2012
VfL Oldenburg
2012–2013
Vipers Kristiansand
2013
Bayer Leverkusen
2013–2019
VfL Oldenburg
2023
SG Obenstrohe/Dangastermoor
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006–
Germany 110 (211)

Angie Birgit Geschke (born 24 May 1985) is a German former handball player for the German national team. [1] [2]

Career

Geschke started playing handball at TuS Lübeck 93 at a young age, and later played youth handball at SC Buntekuh. [3]

In 2000, she joined Frankfurter HC, where she won the 2003 DHB-Pokal and the 2004 German Championship. In the 2006-07 season she was the top scorer in the Handball-Bundesliga with 210 goals. The same season, she debuted for the German national team against Croatia.

In 2007, Geschke joined Danish side Randers HK. Only a year later, she returned to Germany to play for VfL Oldenburg. In 2012, she joined Norwegian team Vipers Kristiansand. [4] Again, she returned to Germany after a year to join Bayer Leverkusen, this time in the summer of 2013. [3] In September that same year, she moved back to VfL Oldenburg for personal reasons. [5] In 2015-16 she was the top scorer of the Bundesliga again, with 237 goals. [6]

In 2019, Geschke left Oldenburg once again to retire. [7]

In the final parts of the 2022-23 season she made a comeback to the court to join SG Obenstrohe/Dangastermoor in the lower leagues. [8] [9]

References

  1. "Angie Geschke". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  2. "Profile". dhb.de. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  3. 1 2 Angie Geschke kommt nach Leverkusen
  4. "Geschke wechselt als Vollprofi nach Norwegen" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  5. "VfL Oldenburg holt Angie Geschke zurück" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  6. "Oldenburger Siegesserie gegen Celle hält" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  7. "Oldenburgs Gerüst für die Zukunft steht - Drei namhafte Abgänge" (in German). handball-world.news. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  8. "Grüppenbühren/Bookholzberg kann Ex-Nationalspielerin nicht stoppen" (in German). weser-kurier.de. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  9. "1.Frauen verliert wichtiges Spiel" (in German). landkreishsg.de. Retrieved 5 October 2023.