Graven hopes for participation: Start after semi-final drama!

Graven hopes for participation: Start after semi-final drama!

Lüneburg, Deutschland - The 21-year-old Leonard "Lenny" Graven, Libero of VfB Friedrichshafen, looks optimistically into the future despite the recent semi-final against SVG Lüneburg. After the disappointing game, Graven confessed that he was indoors and had the feeling that the team could have won. This was the first opportunity for him to move into the championship final. After moving last summer from the WWK Volleys Herrsching to VfB Friedrichshafen, Graven gained a lot of personal strength and performed well, especially at the end of the season.

Despite some setbacks, including leaving the DVV Cup and the CEV Cup, Graven is currently training with the German national team in Kienbaum. He is preparing for upcoming test games, including in Munich, and could thus secure a place in the squad for volleyball Nations League. Graven showed athletic ambition about the past Olympic Mom, in which he was not taken into account and hopes to participate in the World Cup in September. He sees himself in the competition with Julian Zenger, an experienced player on the libero position.

preparation for the new season

Trainer Adam Swaczyna expects Graven in early August to prepare for the second season in the VfB jersey. Driven by the disappointment about the semi -final, Graven wants to convert them into motivation. In the Bundesliga, the Berlin Recycling Volleys secured the ninth championship title in a row by winning the final against SVG Lüneburg. Stefan Hübner, coach of SVG Lüneburg, expressed the desire to stabilize at the high level and return to the final.

Leonard Graven was born on April 22, 2004 and measures his career 1.80 m. About his father Josef Wolf, after playing at ASV Dachau, followed by stations in the young team of VC Olympia Munich and at TSV Unterhaching. Graven debut in the A national team in 2022 and was part of the U19 national team in 2021 before moving to VfB Friedrichshafen in the 2024/25 season, where he currently plays. A significant success of his previous career was to reach the DVV Cup final in 2023.

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