Johanna ("Janneke") Dorotheo Maria Schopman (born 26 April 1977) is a former Dutch

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player who played as a defender for Dutch club HC Den Bosch and the Netherlands national team. She is the head coach of the Indian women's national field hockey team

Playing career

Schopman started playing hockey at Dutch club Tempo '34 in Rotterdam. She also played for

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, before transferring to HC Den Bosch, where she played until stopping in 2010. While part of the Den Bosch squad, she won 6 national titles. Schopman was first selected for the Dutch national squad in 2001. Schopman was a member of the Dutch squad that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in

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, after losing to

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in the final . She scored one of the penalties in the semi-finals against

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in the semi-finals. She was also part of the Dutch squad that became World Champion at the

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in Madrid and which won the 2007 Champions Trophy. She was part of the 2007 squad that was featured in the documentary 'Goud' by Niek Koppen, about their preparation for the

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. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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she won an Olympic gold medal with the Dutch national team beating China in the final 2–0. She was the captain of the Dutch national squad during the

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in Rosario, where they won the silver medal after losing to Argentina 1–3 in the final.

Coaching career

After ending her career as a professional hockey player in 2010, Schopman became the head coach for the women's squad of the Dutch club SCHC. In 2014, she led the team to their first appearance in the final of the Hoofdklasse, the top league in the Netherlands. In 2014, Schopman was assigned to be the head coach for the U21 US Women's National Team and assistant coach for the United States women's national team under

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. In January 2017 she became the US Women's National Team head coach. With Schopman as head coach, the team came 3rd in the 2017 Pan American Cup in Lancaster, United States, and 14th in the 2018 World Cup in London, United Kingdom. Indian hockey women’s team made her their analytical coach in January 2020. After the Tokyo Olympics,

Sjoerd Marijne Sjoerd Marijne (born 20 April 1974) is a Dutch former field hockey player and former coach of the Indian women's national team. He played for ten years as part of Den Bosch in the Hoofdklasse. As coach of Indian women's team He coached the Indi ...

, the previous head coach of the team, declined a contract extension, and Schopman became the head coach.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schopman, Janneke 1977 births Living people Dutch female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in field hockey Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Haarlem Field hockey players from North Holland Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United States LGBT field hockey players HC Rotterdam players HC Den Bosch players 21st-century Dutch women