Mered de Vries (born 25 September 1977) is a retired Dutch professional

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...

and indoor

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player born in the small village of Harich in

Friesland Friesland (, ; official fry, Fryslân ), historically and traditionally known as Frisia, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part. It is situated west of Groningen, northwest of Drenthe and Overijssel, north of ...

. De Vries played seven seasons at Dutch highest league participants AMVJ before she moved to Italy to play for Asystel Milan and

Busto Arsizio Busto Arsizio (; lmo, label= Bustocco, Büsti Grandi) is an Italian city and ''comune'' in the south-easternmost part of the Province of Varese, in the region of Lombardy, in Northern Italy, north of Milan. The economy of Busto Arsizio is main ...

. After 1.5 year in Italy she returned to the Netherlands and AMVJ to play there another year. She started her international beach volleyball career in 2001 and teamed up with Elske van Diepen. They only played one international tournament together. During the years 2002, 2003 and 2004, de Vries teamed up with six different players without hardly making any progress. When she met

Patricia Labee Patricia Labee (born 4 April 1977) is a Dutch female professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player. She was born in Rotterdam. Labee played ten seasons at Dutch highest league participants Sliedrecht Sport. She also played one seaso ...

in 2005, she introduced her to beach volleyball. Together they finished 5th in only their third international tournament in

Alba Adriatica Alba Adriatica is a town and ''comune'' with 12,386 residents (2014) in the province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region of central eastern Italy. It is known as one of the "seven sisters" of the northern Abruzzo coast, i.e. the seven coastal towns ...

. Later in

Phuket Phuket (; th, ภูเก็ต, , ms, Bukit or ''Tongkah''; Hokkien:普吉; ) is one of the southern provinces (''changwat'') of Thailand. It consists of the island of Phuket, the country's largest island, and another 32 smaller islands of ...

they reached the same position. In 2006 their highest position was 7 at the

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

tournament. In 2007,

Sanne Keizer Sanne Keizer (born 6 February 1985) is a Dutch beach volleyball player who plays as a right-side defender with her partner Madelein Meppelink. Her career highlights include two gold, two silver and four bronze medals on the FIVB World Tour. S ...

and Mered de Vries split up with Marrit Leenstra and Patricia Labee and started playing together. In 2008 they won the Dutch championship and became 5th during one of the most well known Grand Slams in Klagenfurt. They did not have enough points to make it to the Olympic Games Beijing 2008. By the end of 2008, Keizer and de Vries were ranked 13th at the world ranking. De Vries decided to focus on her working career after this.

References

External links

Official site

FIVB profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vries, Mered 1977 births Dutch women's beach volleyball players Sportspeople from Friesland People from Gaasterlân-Sleat Living people