Isabelle Haak

Isabelle "Bella" Haak (born 11 July 1999) is a Swedish volleyball player, who plays as an opposite for the Turkish club VakıfBank S.K. and the Swedish national team.

Isabelle Haak
Personal information
NicknameBella
NationalitySwedish
Born (1999-07-11) 11 July 1999
Perstorp, Sweden
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight83 kg (183 lb)[1]
Spike330 cm (130 in)[1]
Block316 cm (124 in)[1]
Volleyball information
PositionOpposite
Current clubVakıfBank S.K.
Number11
Career
YearsTeams
2012–2016Engelholms VS
2016–2017Béziers VB
2017–2019Savino Del Bene Scandicci
2019–VakıfBank S.K.
National team
2014–Sweden

Club career

Haak started playing volleyball at the youth teams of her hometown club Engelholms VS and at the age of 14 made her debut for the first team in the Elitserien.[2] She became part of the starting line-up of the team in the 2014/15 season and helped Engelholms VS win the Swedish Championship for two consecutive seasons.[3][4] She was elected Player of the Year by the Swedish Volleyball Federation in both 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons.[2] In the early years of her career, Haak participated in beach volleyball as well as indoor volleyball. Together with her partner Fanny Åhman, she was fourth in the 2015 U18 European Championships in Riga.[5]

After two successful seasons in Engelholm, Haak signed a contract with the French club Béziers VB for the 2016/17 season.[6] With her new team, Haak reached the final at the French Cup where Béziers lost to Venelles 2–3 in a very closely contested match.[7] She was the top scorer of the French League in the regular season,[8] and voted the MVP and the best opposite spiker of the season.[9] Despite finishing third in the regular season, Béziers were defeated by the defending champions sixth-seeded Saint-Raphaël at the first round of the playoffs.[10] At the end of the season, Haak joined the Italian side Savino Del Bene Scandicci.[11]

In her first season in Italy, Haak became the scoring champion of the league with 491 points, averaging the season's highest 6.14 points per set,[12] and was selected for the All Star game[13] while her team Scandicci finished the regular season in second place, just one point behind Igor Gorgonzola Novara.[14] In the playoffs, Scandicci eliminated Volley Pesaro in the first round but lost to Imoco Volley Conegliano in the semifinals.[15][16]

International career

Haak made her international debut with the Swedish national volleyball team against Latvia on 10 May 2014 at the age of fourteen,[17] and became the youngest ever volleyball player to represent Sweden at senior level.[18] She was the member of the Swedish U19 teams that won the U19 NEVZA (North European Volleyball Zonal Association) Championships in 2014 and 2015.[19]

Personal life

Haak was born in Perstorp but she later moved to Ängelholm shortly after her father had passed away from stomach cancer when she was 9 years old.[20] Her older sister Anna is also a national volleyball player and was her teammate during her time in Engelholms VS.[2]

Awards

Individuals

Clubs

Junior team
  • 2014 U19 NEVZA Championship - Gold Medal
  • 2015 U19 NEVZA Championship - Gold Medal

Senior team

References
  1. "Isabelle Haak - 2019 Club World Championship Profile". volleyball.world. Fédération Internationale de Volleyball. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  2. "New Year's Interview: Isabelle Haak - „I'm still learning about volleyball world"". worldofvolley.com. WorldofVolley. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  3. "SM-guld till Engelholms VS". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  4. "Haak hakade på guldtåget". lokaltidningen.se (in Swedish). Lokaltidningen. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  5. "Tina Graudina and Paula Neciporuka claim U18 Beach Volleyball gold in front of great home crowd". CEV.lu. European Volleyball Confederation. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  6. "Isabelle Haak rejoint les Beziers Angels". beziers-volley.net (in French). Béziers Volley. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  7. "Aix-Venelles remporte la Coupe de France face à Béziers". lequipe.fr (in French). L'Équipe. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  8. "Isabelle Haak vann poängligan i Frankrike". sverigesradio (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  9. "Haak, le sacre d'une reine". L'Équipe (in French). 4 April 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  10. "Ligue A : Béziers, à bout de force, n'a pu contrer Saint-Raphaël". midilibre.fr (in French). Midi Libre. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  11. "Primo acquisto della stagione: a Scandicci arriva Isabelle Haak". gonews.it (in Italian). Go News. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  12. "Punti Totali Individuale". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  13. "Samsung Galaxy All Star Game". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  14. "Samsung Galaxy Volley Cup: chiusa la Regular Season, ecco il tabellone dei quarti di finale dei Play Off Scudetto. Novara scavalca Imoco e Savino Del Bene ed è prima, la Foppapedretti si salva e Filottrano retrocede in Serie A2". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  15. "La Savino Del Bene vince e vola in semifinale". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  16. "L'Imoco stoppa il sogno di Scandicci: le pantere vincono 3 – 0". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  17. "Second straight victory for Sweden to delight home crowd at Halmstad Arena". CEV.lu. European Volleyball Confederation. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  18. "Stjärnskottet dagen efter guldet". svt.se (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  19. "Gold for Sweden girls and Denmark boys at The NEVZA U19 Championships". volleyball.dk. Denmark Volleyball Federation. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  20. "Engelholms vassa poängplockare väljer musiken". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
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