Jennifer Geerties - Best Volleyball Actions 2019 | Women's Volleyball

Jennifer Janiska (born April 5, 1994) is a German volleyball player. The outside attacker became vice-European champion with the German national team and won the European League. At club level she won several times the German championship and the DVV Cup as well as the Club World Championship with Conegliano. In the 2020/21 season she plays for Dresdner SC.

Geerties joined volleyball through a classmate in her first year of school and began her career at SCU Emlichheim. At the age of 14, she made her first appearance in the Second Bundesliga North and the following year she was firmly part of the club's second division squad.[1] In 2010 she moved to the base team VC Olympia Berlin. There she was first in the Second League and in the Bundesliga season 2011/12 captain of the junior team.

She was also part of the U18 national team that finished fourth at the 2011 European Championship in Ankara. Geerties was awarded as the best player of the tournament. Subsequently, she was nominated as the only player in the U18 for the world Cup-qualification of the U20 national team. At the U18 World Cup, which was also held in Ankara, the captain led her team to fifth place.

In February 2012, a protrusion of the intervertebral disc was found in Geerties, which was treated with physiotherapy. After a worsening of the situation, the player decided to have an operation despite the impending end of her career, which caused her to miss several months. She made her debut in the A-League at the Montreux tournament in the summer. With the DVV selection, she won the European League 2013 and subsequently became vice-European champion at the European Championships in Germany.

Geerties signed with the Rote Raben Vilsbiburg of the German Bundesliga for the 2013-14 season. With the club from Lower Bavaria, she won the DVV Cup in the final against VolleyStars Thüringen. In the playoff final against Dresdner SC she was also German runner-up. With the national team, she reached the final of the 2014 European League and finished ninth at the World Cup in Italy.

After that, the outside attacker moved from Vilsbiburg to league rival Schweriner SC. In their first season in Schwerin, the team reached the playoff semi-finals against Allianz MTV Stuttgart in the 2014/15 Bundesliga season, having previously lost the Cup quarter-finals against the same opponent. Schwerin also finished third in the Challenge Cup. At the EURO 2015, Geerties came fifth with Germany. In the 2015/16 season, she also lost to Schwerin in the quarterfinals of the DVV Cup and in the playoff semi-final of the Bundesliga against Stuttgart. At European level there was again a third place, this time in the CEV Cup. In the DVV Cup 2016/17 she reached the final with Schwerin, which was again won by the permanent rival from Stuttgart. The next third place at European level was in the Challenge Cup 2016/17. Afterwards Schwerin achieved revenge against Stuttgart in the playoff final of the Bundesliga and Geerties became German champion for the first time.

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season she won the VBL Supercup with Schwerin. In the semi-finals of the DVV-Pokal 2017/18 the Schwerin Women had to give up Dresden and in the CEV-Pokal they reached the quarter-finals. In the Bundesliga final, they managed to defend their title against Stuttgart. In the season 2018/19 succeeded first the title defense in the Supercup. Geerties played with Schwerin for the first time in the Champions League, where the team was eliminated in the preliminary round. Subsequently, the SSC won the DVV Cup 2018/19 in the final against Stuttgart. In the playoff final of the Bundesliga, however, the North Germans remained only the second rank.

Geerties then moved to Imoco Volley Conegliano in the Italian league.In December 2019, she won the Volleyball Club World Championship in the final against Eczacıbaşı Istanbul. In the Champions League, she reached the semifinals with Conegliano when the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2020, the now married Janiska returned to the German Bundesliga, where she plays for Dresdner SC.

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