Janne Muller: Captain to coach relationship

The EuroHockey Institute Podcast

Janne Müller-Wieland is the Co-chair of the EHF Athletes Committee. The Athletes Committee serving a link between the EHF and our Athletes and making sure the Athletes have a voice in the EHF’s decision-making process. The Committee acting as a consultative body and making recommendations to the EHF Executive Board and Committees.

Janne is the captain of Germany and a world-class international player with over 220 caps for her country. She is a 3 x Olympian, having represented Germany at Beijing 2008, London 2012, and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where she captained her country to a bronze medal. In 2008 she was nominated for the FIH World Young Player of the Year Award, having been the youngest member of the German squad at the Beijing Olympics, and in 2011 she was awarded Hamburg’s Athlete of the Year.

Janne has numerous international honors, including 2019, 2011, 2009 European Championship – Silver, 2018 Indoor World Cup – Gold, 2016 Olympics – Bronze, 2015 European Championship – Bronze, 2013 European Championships – Gold.

Away from the field, Janne has a Masters in Administration from the HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration. She is an entrepreneur and has recently founded Unthink (A platform for curious people to do extraordinary things).

She had also used her business acumen and her leadership role in hockey to look to build a “hockey forest” as a measure to offset the carbon footprint that is created by the demands of the sport’s growing schedule.

On her Go Fund Me page created along with fellow German internationals Nike Lorenz and Anne Schröder along with Delf Ness, they have already raised over €20,000 for the project and are encouraging others to support.

Details of how to support the project:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/hockey-forest?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet