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Dutch Team closes season 2009 & meets Cadets
 Nederlandse tekst
NIEUWEGEIN (Neth.) - The Dutch National Softball Team closed its 2009 season on September 30, but a week earlier, on the 23rd, a special practice session was conducted.
For this practicce, the successful National Junior Team was invited to participate.
In August, this team participated in the first-ever Under 16 Youth World championships, which was held in Czech capital Prague.
And there, the team, led by Head Coach André Prins, played a great tournament and went on to reach the final in which it finally lost to Japan, but captured the Silver Medal.
To honor their accomplishment, the team was invited not only to participate in the practice, but also to meet the players and staff of the Dutch National Team.
At the site of Nieuwegein Diamonds, the players first met each other in brief one-on-one talks and then joined in a combined warming-up.
Hereafter, several little games were performed with some of them focusing on hitting and others on running or throwing.
Afterwards, both teams enjoyed a combined diner.
Between the activities on the 23rd and 30th, Dutch National Team-players Dagmar Bloeming, Nathalie Gosewehr and Karin Tuk conducted a clinic on a school in Noordwijk.
The Dutch National Team gets together again on Sunday, November 1 to start its preparations for the 2010 international season.
Of course, you can follow all the action again of the national squad on this site.
National Team meets Cadets
Before the practice session started, the players met each other
and had brief one-on-one talks
Head Coach Craig Montvidas goes over the details for the practice
with Cadets Head Coach André Prins and his Assistant Coach Sandra Gouverneur (left)
The practice started with a combined workout
Daphne Endlich
Beau van Gelder
Mariëlle Vleugels
Noemi Brandjes
Myrthe Smidt
Cindy van der Zanden
Lotte Zijlstra
Marit van Vulpen
Coach Nancy Evans tosses a ball to one of the players
Kim Buizer
Noemi Brandjes
Loes van de Vliet
Lotte Zijlstra
Cindy van der Zanden
Daphne Endlich
Myrthe Smidt
National Team players Karin Tuk (left) and Chantal Versluis (right)
with Cadets Myrthe Smidt and Jessie van Aalst
Cadets Marit van Vulpen and Lueji Petchkovsky Morais with National Team players
Meike Witteveen and Anne Blaauwgeers
Head Coach Craig Montvidas checks the running of National Team players
Solange Starrenburg and Anne Blaauwgeers and Cadet Daphne Endlich
Cheryl Hiele
Afterwards, all players posed for a teamphoto...
...and then enjoyed a dinner together
Cadets Head Coach André Prins addresses the players after the joined practice session
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