(Story & Photo by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Rudy Dirksen new Head Coach of UVV
Nederlands
 VLEUTEN (Neth.) -
Rudy Dirksen is the new Head Coach of the women softball-team of UVV, the club announced.
The experienced Dirksen succeeds Hubert Bomba, who led the squad the past three seasons.
This season, Dirksen assisted Bomba as coach.
Cintia de Groodt will stay on as Assistant Coach.
...Rudy Dirksen...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) |
This season, UVV finished in a tie for fourth place in the newly created Silver League.
With that, the team secured itself of a spot in next years Silver League, but also qualified to play in the Promotion Pool in the second half of the season.
In this pool, UVV again finished in a tie for fourth place.
When he came to the Netherlands from Aruba, Dirksen played baseball for Amsterdam-based OVVO.
In 1988, Dirksen started playing softball for Hilversum, which in those years was one of the best Dutch men softball-teams.
When a Dutch big league was created for men softball, Dirksen went on to win the Dutch championship with Hilversum.
In 1990, Hilversum was the first Dutch club to win an European Cup in men softball.
A bronze and silver medal followed in the next years.
Dirksen then started to coach a youth baseball-team at Hilversum.
He created a team, which he trained for two years and led to the Dutch championship in the cadets-category.
In the past, Dirksen also coached youth-teams at UVV/EBS with Tony Rombley.
This was a combined team, which was associated with the European Baseball School, which was led by Rombley.
In 2010, he was one of the coaches of the baseball-team of UVV, which then won the title in the second highest league ('Overgangsklasse') to qualify for the best-of-five Promotion/Relegation Play-Off against Almere Magpies.
UVV was swept in three games, but shortly thereafter Almere withdraw from the big league due to financial reasons.
UVV was approached to fill in the vacant spot and with that, the club returned to the highest division.
In 2011, Dirksen moved to HCAW, where he became the Head Coach of the Rookie Team of the club.
In September of that year, he was named Head Coach of the big league-squad, which he led in 2012.
After the separation with HCAW in September 2012, Dirksen was not active in the following two years.
(October 23)
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