Celeste Plak
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| Full name | Celeste Plak | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | Netherlands | ||||||||||||
| Born |
October 26, 1995 Tuitjenhorn, Netherlands | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||
| Spike | 323 cm (127 in) | ||||||||||||
| Block | 305 cm (120 in) | ||||||||||||
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| Position | Outside hitter | ||||||||||||
| Current club |
 Volley Bergamo | ||||||||||||
| Number | 4 | ||||||||||||
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Celeste Plak (born October 26, 1995) is a Dutch volleyball player, who plays as an outside hitter. She was a member of the Women's National Team. She plays for Volley Bergamo.
Personal
Plak was born in Tuitjenhorn where she grew up with her mother Karin, father Kenneth and younger brother Fabian. Her father is the kickboxing 1992 world champion leightweight. Her brother is part (as of 2015) of the volleyball Jeugd Oranje (Youth Orange). She went to the Johan Cruyff College in Nijmegen. For a few years of her live she lived in the house of her assistant coach of Alterno Apeldoorn Suus Luttikhuis, her husband Ferry, and their three children Anna, Bram, and Tije.
Plak is a fan of Anouk, with her favourite songs being Nobody's Wife, Good God and Down and Dirty.
Career
After being playing for two months in the Dutch youth selection: Jeugd Oranje (Youth Orange) in 2009, she left the selection because she thought herself she wasn't good enough. She went back to her local club De Boemel. A few months later without knowing it, her former coach visited a of her matches during the national Dutch youth championships in Sneek. He was impressed an convinced her that she should come back and had a good chance to make it to the national elite team. She went back, and because she was also selected for the Talent Team she lived intern for five days per week at the national sports centre Papendal. After playing for a year with the first division (eerste divisie) club Dinto in Warmenhuizen, the Dutch federation advised her to start playing for a team in the highest division (eredivisie). She could choose between Weert and Alterno Apeldoorn. Because she wanted to stay at Papendal and because she went to school at the Johan Cruyff College in Nijmegen she chose Alterno. She was at that time sixteen years old. Plak still had to travel lot, especially in the weekends when Alterno played matches on both Saturdays and Sundays. During these weekends she could stay in the house of the assistant coach and old international player Suus Luttikhuis, together with her husband and three children. Later she got in the house a more permanent room and sometimes she stayed there six days per week. A bit later Plak moved permanently into the house of Suus Luttikhuis and left Papendal.
Two years later at a World Championships qualification match in Croatia, Plak was seen by manager Donato Saltini. He helped her to an international club: Volley Bergamo in Italy, for which she started playing in the 2014–15 season. She moved for it to Bergamo and had an apartment just next to the city.
Clubs
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VV De Boemel (2008–2010) - VV Dinto (2010–2012)
- VV Alterno (2012–2014)
- Volley Bergamo (2014–2016)
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