1. Sanne Keizer was born on 6 February 1985 and is a Dutch beach volleyball player who plays as a right-side defender with her partner Madelein Meppelink.
22 Facts About Sanne Keizer
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Sanne Keizer is a two-time European Champion and she represented the Netherlands at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing ninth with Marleen van Iersel.
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Sanne Keizer competed in her first international beach volleyball event in 2002 and became the inaugural U18 World Champion the same year.
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Sanne Keizer's breakthrough came at the end of 2008 when she teamed up with van Iersel.
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Sanne Keizer was born on 6 February 1985 in Doetinchem, Netherlands.
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Sanne Keizer was called to the junior national water polo team, but eventually left the sport because the chlorinated swimming pool water was tinting her blond hair green and she was afraid of going to the hairdressers.
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From 1996 to 2002, Sanne Keizer played for her local club, Orion Volleybal Doetinchem, where she rose from the youth ranks to the club's first team that played in the Eerste Divisie, the third division of the Dutch volleyball league system.
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Sanne Keizer was scouted by the national beach volleyball team when she was 15.
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Sanne Keizer continued to live in Amsterdam until she moved to The Hague in 2008.
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In 2007, Sanne Keizer obtained an HBO diploma in Commercial Economics at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.
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Sanne Keizer became a member of the Police Top Sport Selection in May 2012.
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Sanne Keizer left the police force upon her return to full-time competition at the end of 2017.
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Sanne Keizer is married to beach volleyball player-turned-coach Michiel van der Kuip, and the couple have two children, twins born in 2016.
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Sanne Keizer made her international beach volleyball debut at the 2002 U18 European Championships in August, where she and Arjanne Stevens won the silver medal.
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Sanne Keizer concluded her first season on the World Tour ranked No 70 in the world with Mooren.
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Towards the end of 2008, Sanne Keizer changed partners and paired up with Marleen van Iersel.
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Sanne Keizer began to see better results on the international circuit, including her first World Tour podium at the $190K Japan Open in the spring of 2009.
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Sanne Keizer and van Iersel did not medal on the World Tour in 2013; their highest finish was a fifth at the $220K The Hague Grand Slam.
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Sanne Keizer partnered with Sophie van Gestel to compete at the $500K Transavia Grand Slam mid-2014; they lost all three of their group stage matches and did not progress further.
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Sanne Keizer had been a blocker before her retirement in 2013, but at slightly above 1.8 metres, she had long felt unsuited and undersized for the role.
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Olympic gold medalist Dain Blanton noted at the 2018 Vienna Major that Sanne Keizer has an aggressive and physical playing style to go along with being a well-rounded player.
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Sanne Keizer's setting ability in particular has been praised by opponents.