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Full name | Wytze Kooistra | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Westerbork, Netherlands | June 3, 1982||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 2.09 m (6 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 102 kg (225 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 360 cm (140 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Block | 345 cm (136 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Middle blocker/Opposite | ||||||||||||||||||||
Current club | Abiant Lycurgus Groningen | ||||||||||||||||||||
Number | 2 (club), 12 (national team) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Last updated: 20 February 2017 |
Wytze Kooistra (born 3 June 1982) is a Dutch volleyball player, a member of Netherlands men's national volleyball team and Dutch club Abiant Lycurgus Groningen.
He began his career as a middle-blocker. In 2013, he played for his national team as a spiker, and now he is playing in this position at his club.
His first professional club was Lycurgus. During the seasons 2002-2005, he played for Piet Zoomers. In 2005, he moved to Itas Diatec Trentino. In 2011, he moved to Polish PlusLiga team, PGE Skra Bełchatów.[1] For a long time he was a reserve player. With the club from Bełchatów, Kooistra won the Polish Cup of 2012, a silver medal in the Polish Championship in the season 2011/2012 and in the Polish SuperCup of 2013. He is a silver medalist of the CEV Champions League, which was held in Łódź, Poland. In 2013 moved to another Polish PlusLiga club - Cerrad Czarni Radom.[2]