Mered de Vries
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Mered de Vries is a Dutch
professional beach volleyball
and indoor volleyball
player born in the small village of Harich
in Friesland
.
De Vries played seven seasons at Dutch highest league participants AMVJ before she moved to Italy
to play for Asystel Milan and Busto Arsizio
. After 1.5 year in Italy she returned to The Netherlands and AMVJ to play there another year.
She started her international beach volleyball career in 2001 and teamed up with Elske van Diepen. They only played one international tournament together. During the years 2002, 2003 and 2004 De Vries teamed up with six different players without hardly making any progress. When she met Patricia Labee
in 2005 she introduced her into beach volleyball. Together they finished 5th in only their third international tournament in Alba Adriatica
. Later in Phuket
they reached the same position. In 2006 their highest position was 7 at the Cyprus
tournament.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
professional beach volleyball
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....
and indoor volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
player born in the small village of Harich
Harich
Harich is a small village in Gaasterlân-Sleat in the province Friesland of the Netherlands and has around the 210 citizens ....
in Friesland
Friesland
Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...
.
De Vries played seven seasons at Dutch highest league participants AMVJ before she moved to Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
to play for Asystel Milan and Busto Arsizio
Busto Arsizio
Busto Arsizio is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy, in northern Italy, 25 km north of Milan in the province of Varese.The economy of Busto Arsizio is mainly based on industry and commerce.-History:...
. After 1.5 year in Italy she returned to The Netherlands and AMVJ to play there another year.
She started her international beach volleyball career in 2001 and teamed up with Elske van Diepen. They only played one international tournament together. During the years 2002, 2003 and 2004 De Vries teamed up with six different players without hardly making any progress. When she met Patricia Labee
Patricia Labee
Patricia Labee is a Dutch professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player born in Rotterdam.Labee played seven seasons at Dutch highest league participants Sliedrecht Sport...
in 2005 she introduced her into beach volleyball. Together they finished 5th in only their third international tournament in Alba Adriatica
Alba Adriatica
Alba Adriatica is a town and comune with 11,820 residents in the province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region of central eastern Italy.It is known as one of the "seven sisters" of the northern Abruzzo coast, i.e...
. Later in Phuket
Phuket Province
Phuket , formerly known as Thalang and, in Western sources, Junk Ceylon , is one of the southern provinces of Thailand...
they reached the same position. In 2006 their highest position was 7 at the Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
tournament.