STAM Katja

World Tour - Tally of rank achieved per season since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	7th	9th	17th	19th-37th
2021	Women	-	-	-	-	1x	-	1x	-	2x
2019	Women	-	1x	2x	2x	-	-	-	-	-
2018	Women	-	1x	-	-	2x	-	2x	-	-

World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
2	2019	Women	Baden	Baden, AUT
2	2018	Women	Langkawi	Kuah, MAS
3	2019	Women	Ljubljana	Ljubljana, SLO
3	2019	Women	Alba Adriatica	Alba Adriatica, ITA
4	2019	Women	Vaduz	Vaduz, LIE
4	2019	Women	Goteborg	Gothenburg, SWE
5	2021	Women	Ostrava	Ostrava, CZE
5	2018	Women	Vaduz	Vaduz, LIE
5	2018	Women	Shepparton	Shepparton, VIC, AUS
9	2021	Women	Cancun	Cancun, MEX
9	2018	Women	Nanjing	Nanjing, CHN
9	2018	Women	Boracay	Manila, PHI

Under 21 World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
17	Women	2017	Nanjing, CHN

Athlete

Physiotherapy - University of Applied Sciences Leiden, Netherlands

Partner Thijs Nijeboer

Dutch, English

Richard de Kogel [national], NED

Her partner Thijs Nijeboer has also represented the Netherlands in beach volleyball, and competed at the 2018 World Tour event in Aalsmeer, Netherlands. (SportsDeskOnline, 06 Jul 2021; Thijs Nijeboer Instagram profile, 22 Apr 2021)

She took up volleyball at age nine at the OSR club in Odoorn, Netherlands. She competed in indoor volleyball before she switched her focus to beach volleyball. (rtvdrenthe.nl, 28 May 2021)

"I like the fact that in beach volleyball you have to do everything together. There is no coaching during the match and there are no substitutions either. You have to be able to do everything." (rtvdrenthe.nl, 28 May 2021)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (rtvdrenthe.nl, 28 May 2021)