Jana Franziska Poll (born 7 May 1988 in

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volleyball player, member of the

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. At club level, she plays for German Allianz MTV Stuttgart.

National team career

Poll made her first appearances with

in 2013. She was part of the German national team who won the gold medal at the 2013 Women's European Volleyball League in

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and the silver medal at the

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. In 2016, she participated in the

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Career

After several years in the German League without winning any title, in the summer of 2016 Jana Franziska Poll traveled to

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, signing with the historic club

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, where she remained for one year. In July 2017 she made a contract with

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powerhouse Olympiacos S.F. Piraeus. In 2017–18 season, Poll won both Hellenic competitions with the red-whites of

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: the Hellenic Championship and the

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as well. Although, undoubtedly her bigger achievement was the title of the 2018

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. In that competition Jana Franziska Poll was nominated as 2nd best scorer and 2nd best attacker with 149 points and 119 points respectively. In the summer of 2018 Poll returned to Germany for family reasons, making a contract with Allianz MTV Stuttgart, accepting the invitation of Yannis Athanassopoulos, the Greek coach of the Stuttgart club. During the 2018–19 season, she became German Champion with Stuttgart in the Deutsche Volleyball-Bundesliga and reached the quarter finals of the

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. At the end of the season, she wanted to leave Stuttgart and envisioned returning to the Ladies in Black in Aachen to be closer to her husband. Shortly after signing, Aachen had to step back from the contract due to the club's financial troubles. She then switched to the new entry in Italy's first league, VolAlto Caserta.

Sporting achievements

National Team

* 2013

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