Marloes Fellinger (born April 18, 1982 in

Naarden Naarden () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and former List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Gooi region in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland, Netherlands. It has been part ...

) is a Dutch

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

player, who represents the

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in international competitions.Athlete biography: Marloes Fellinger
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 16, 2008 Fellinger played softball for Run '71 Oldenzaal until 2002. Since then she plays for Sparks Haarlem. She is a

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and

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who bats and throws right-handed. In 2005 she was named MVP in the Dutch Softball

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and since 2006 she is competing in the Dutch national team. She is part of the Dutch team for the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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External links

Fellinger at dutchsoftballteam.com

References

1982 births Living people Dutch softball players Olympic softball players for the Netherlands Softball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Naarden 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-softball-bio-stub