Wim Scholtmeijer

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Wim Scholtmeijer
Personal information
Full nameWim Scholtmeijer
Date of birth (1982-09-04) 4 September 1982 (age 38)
Place of birth Gieten, Netherlands
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 3 12 in)
Club information
Current team
PKC
National team
Netherlands 46
Medal record
Mixed korfball
Representing Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
World Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg World Games 2005 Team
Korfball World Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Korfball World Championship Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2003 Korfball World Championship Team
European Korfball Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 European Korfball Championship Team

Wim Scholtmeijer (1982) is a former Dutch Korfball player and former Dutch National Team Coach. Since 2020 is het the headcoach of PKC. As a player Scholtmeijer won 4 Dutch national championships and 2 European championships. As the Dutch national team headcoach he won 6 gold medals.

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Scholtmeijer father, Jantinus Scholtmeijer, was also a korfball player and coached the Polish and Australian national team.

Player career

Scholmeijer began playing korfball at the age of 5 at ASKO (Assen). In 2000, at the age of 18 he started university in Groningen. He then joined Nic. as this was a succesfull team in Groningen. Here he played for 2 seasons.

In 2002 he joined Fortuna to team up with Joost Preuninger and Barry Schep. In the same off-season Fortuna also acquired new headcoach Hans Heemskerk and the team revitalized. In his first season with Fortuna, he won the Dutch national indoor championship. His second season was even better, when Fortuna first won the European indoor championship and repeated the Dutch national indoor championship. In his third season Fortuna repeated the European indoor championship, but could not repeat a trip to the Dutch indoor finals.

Scholmeijer then joined PKC in 2005.

In 2005, a new league was introduced ; the Korfbal League and at the start of season 2005-2006, Scholtmeijer declared himself as the first ever korfball professional. In this first season with PKC, PKC ended as number 1 in the regular competition. PKC entered the play-off versus the number 4 seed, Dalto. PKC lost the play-off and therefore missed the final. However, in the same season in the outdoor competition PKC won the play-off versus Dalto and saw itself being placed in the final. In this final, PKC won with 16-13 from AKC Blauw-Wit.

In season 2006-2007 Scholtmeijer and PKC joined DOS'46 in the Korfbal League final. In this final, DOS'46 won by just 1 point ; 17-16. The same happened in the outdoor final, where both PKC and DOS'46 were in the final. In this final, DOS'46 won with 17-13.

In season 2007-2008 PKC did not place itself for the Korfbal League final. In the outdoor competition PKC lost in the final to Dalto. After this season Scholtmeijer decided to join another team; KV TOP.

At TOP, his new team, Scholtmeijer was reunited with coach Hans Heemskerk. In season 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 TOP did not manage to reach the play-offs in either the indoor or outdoor competition.

Season 2010-2011 was Scholmeijers final season as a player and he closed off his career with a bang. In this season TOP won the indoor and outdoor final.

Honours

Dutch National Team

Scholtmeijer was selected in 2003 to the National Team by headcoach Jan Sjouke van den Bos. Scholtmeijer participated in 4 international tournaments, winning gold at all appearances. Scholtmeijer won the individual award of Best Player of the Tournament at the 2003 World Championship.

Coaching career

Dutch National Team headcoach

In 2014 Scholtmeijer replaced Jan Sjouke van den Bos as the headcoach of the Dutch National Team. In this role he won gold medals at 6 international tournaments. In 2020, after 6 years in service, Scholtmeijer was replaced by Jan Niebeek.

PKC

In 2020 Scholtmeijer joined his former teammate Jennifer Tromp to be the new coaching staff for PKC.

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References

  1. Spelerspaspoort Korfbal League
  2. IKF official page