Janke Nijdam

Janke Nijdam lived from 19 November 1934 to 22 July 2023 and was a Dutch softball player. The Dutch Wikipedia article says she was a catcher for the first women's team of HHC, later called Sparks, in Haarlem and won the Dutch championship several times with her club. She was an international of the Dutch women's softball team from 1964 to 1967, afterwards became a successful softball trainer at HHC, was inducted into the KNBSB hall of honour in 1997 as one of the architects of Dutch softball, and worked as a physical education teacher in secondary education in Haarlem. This entry is written from the Dutch Wikipedia article on Janke Nijdam, because the subject has no English Wikipedia article.