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Team Netherlands box lacrosse

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I started playing lacrosse in 2013 with the Wageningen Warriors, in the club’s first year. When box lacrosse got going in the Netherlands around 2017, I switched to that. Box is the indoor version: a rink with boards, five runners and a goalie per team, a shot clock, and a lot more contact than field lacrosse.

These are the tournaments I played with Team Netherlands:

Each of these took years of training next to work, and next to a PhD for the first ones.

From 2020 to 2024 I also coached the men’s team in Wageningen, and now and then I ran a training session for the national team. Before that I was VP Men on the 6th board of the Wageningen Warriors (2015-2016) and sat on the club’s first lustrum committee.

Making & building

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Working with my hands is a good counterbalance to a job that mostly happens on a screen.

I remodelled my own house, which taught me a lot about everything that goes wrong when you decide things about a space without thinking them through first. Some walls came down.

The furniture I’m happiest with is the stuff I use every day: a bed frame I built from scratch, a walk-in wardrobe that actually uses the space well, and some knieschotten (the low knee walls under a sloping Dutch roof, a small detail that makes a big difference). Mostly solid wood, oak and pine.

I don’t have a large workshop, so everything is done in the living space with portable tools. That makes you think before you cut, because you can’t uncut a piece of wood.