Three teams in the Dutch Softball league changed their coaches during the off-season.
2007 champion A4 Terrasvogels signed Glen ROFF as successor of Darwin TOLZIN, who coached them the last two years. The 37-year-old ROFF is from New Zealand. In the pastime he worked as a head coach of the British National Softball Men Team, as an assistant coach with the Danish National Softball Men Team, as a coaching coordinator in Storks and as a head coach in Horsholm (Denmark) and Forli (Italy). He is also serving as a regional co-coordinator for Softball New Zealand since 2003.
Ton VAN KOEVERDEN is going to be the new coach of the Centrals. He led the Van der Peijl DSC ’74 to a fourth place finish in 2007. It was his second year as a head coach. He also was a member of the coaching staff of the Dutch National Softball Men B-Team in the past.
Peter VAN AART will replace VAN KOEVERDEN at DSC’74. He had coached there already in recent years. Frank VAN DER SANDEN, Jose NONNEKENS and Margot MELS will complete his coaching staff.
Comment by garagehero
May 28, 2010 | 5:31 am
Darwin Tolzin is a great coach. Many people dont know this, but when he was a young man, he played on a world champion fastpitch team from the USA. After coaching in the Netherlands, he coached at Dakota Wesleyan University in South Dakota, helping to lead them to their first playoff ever. The funny thing is, one of the teams he played against in the regular season was Dordt College. This American Christian college takes its name from the historic Synod of Dordrecht, held in the Netherlands in 1618-1619. Many of the girls on the softball team, are Ammerican Hollanders, with their Netherlander names still unchanged after a hundred years in America. He helped to coach my daughter, a stupendous player. He said that my daughter was the second best pure hitter he ever coached. I asked him who the best was. He said,”Jessica Mendoza”.