The
28-year-old Dutch player has been playing volleyball
since the age of seven, but he marks the start of his
real career from when he was 15. “I finally began to
grow a little so I could block for the first time,”
he says. It was a fine time for a kid who, as a setter
for youth teams was often the smallest on the court.Nummerdor finally grew to 1.94m and went on to
become an outside hitter. He played for the Dutch
National Junior Team in 1993 and went to Athens in the
summer of 1995 to compete in the European
Championships. A drop in form shut him out of
selection for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, a moment
he describes as his biggest sporting disappointment.
Two seasons with long time Dutch champions Piet
Zoomers Dynamo put him back on track and he was again
selected for the national side in 1997. He is proud to
have been chosen as “Best Receiver” at the
European Championships in the Netherlands. Nummerdor
currently plays in Italy for Bossini Montichiari and
has played for his country 198 times.
The
28-year-old Dutch player has been playing volleyball
since the age of seven, but he marks the start of his
real career from when he was 15. “I finally began to
grow a little so I could block for the first time,”
he says. It was a fine time for a kid who, as a setter
for youth teams was often the smallest on the court.