User:Claudia van der Weck

Claudia van der Weck has been involved in virtually every aspect of sports and tennis coaching since more than a decade at the international scene. From captaining, coaching and playing in a national team to the coaching of the South American ITF official junior teams.

As a player, she was national champion of Uruguay in 3 different categories, and as a player coach, or captain she represented the AUT (Uruguayan Tennis Association) at the Federation Cups in Sao Paulo (Brasil), Nagoya (Japan), Atlanta (USA) and Nottingham (England). Claudia van der Weck shared as active tennis player several World Cup Team events with tennis legends Graf, Navratilova, Sanchez, Sabatini and Mandlikova. For the ACT (Colombian Tennis Association), she assisted the World Fed Cup Team as personal coach of former South American Junior Champion Carmina Giraldo. Claudia van der Weck represented the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the South American Tennis Federation (COSAT) at the World Junior Team competitions. Occasionally her presence as speaker at International sports related conferences is highly appreciated. Former German Bundeskanzler, Dr. Helmut Kohl, distinguished Claudia van der Weck with the "Honour Award of the German Republic" at the prestigious World Junior Team Cup in Bruel, Germany for her contribution to sports.

After a strong playing and coaching background, Claudia completed a bilingual A-level degree in Medical Subjects in Montevideo, a specific Sports Education Degree in Germany (staatlich geprüfte Fachsportlehrerin) and a Trainer Degree at the Leistungszentrum in Essen, Germany.

In the past decade Claudia van der Weck took part at the International Olympic Symposium (IOC) in Montevideo, the Spanish International Coaches Symposium (RFET) in Barcelona, the ITF World Coaches Symposium in Marocco, and the Sports Medicine and Science in Tennis Congress in Barcelona.

Recent participations include the International Sports Congress "Sports et Gestion de Fortune" in Geneve as a tennis peak performance specialist and an international active sponsorship consultant for players and companies. As special guest, she has been invited in recent years to the LTA High Performance Grand Slam Coaches Conference at Wimbledon, England.

Performing as competitions referee (Wettkampfrichter) of the DTB Talent Cup competition, Claudia van der Weck has been invited several years by the German Tennis Federation (DTB) evaluating and scouting talents for several years.

As organizer supporter, her cooperation has been highly appreciated at many international exhibitions, Davis Cup editions and TV broadcasts. As freelance tennis journalist and commentator and peak performance analyst, Claudia van der Weck worked in cooperation with Eurosport, Colombian TV Station Caracol, German National TV and TV Portugal. The German National TV - WDR - produced an "On Tour" sports review of Claudia's Team resuming her professional activity with promising elite juniors worldwide.

In Uruguay, she founded the German Tennis Academy first located at the Deutscher Club Montevideo and later on installed at personal academy locations.

In the sport of field hockey, Claudia´s achievements counts with 3 National Championship Titles of Uruguay. The first Chps. representing the Carrasco Lawn Tennis and following titles representing the Montevideo Cricket Club. Her Sports CV counts with two nominations for the National Hockey Team of Uruguay and her participation as player at the first ever South American field Championship (Asuncion, Paraguay) and the South American Chps. in Santiago de Chile.

The first ever Paddle Tennis National Championship in Uruguay, in doubles with Andrea Mazzuchi, has also been a complementing achievement nicely remembered by several sports fans in this country.