Claudia Effenberg

Claudia Effenberg was born on 18 December 1965 in Hamburg and is a former German softball player and coach. According to the German Wikipedia article she came to softball in 1994 after a few years of baseball, and with the Hamburg Knights she became German softball champion in 1995, 2005 and 2008 and German softball cup winner in 2004 and 2006. She played first base, catcher and third base, and in 2008 she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the German Baseball and Softball Association. As a coach she was head coach of the German junior women's national team from 2003 to 2006, with which she took part in two European championships, and in 2006 she became head coach of the German women's national team, resigning in 2012 for personal reasons. She is the sister of the former football international Stefan Effenberg. This entry is written from the German Wikipedia article on Claudia Effenberg, because the subject has no English Wikipedia article.