My roots...
...are in Twente, in the east of the Netherlands. That's where I was born and raised. It was my sport, canoeing, that took me to the other side of the country at nineteen. I'd made it to the international top in canoeing, a minority sport in the Netherlands but very big elsewhere in the world. I learned a lot during this period, I developed as a person.
My job...
...brings me into contact with the student board members of the student sports clubs. The biggest compliment I can get is when a student board member tells me that I helped them to have an interesting, educational journey during their year on the board. A journey with lessons that proved useful and which they will remember and apply in ten years’ time. That gives me great satisfaction.
