Margret Stender

Volleyball player Margret Stender finished eighth with her team at the 1972 München Olympics. She played all her active career for USC Münster. With that team she won the West German Cups in 1973-76 and the West German Championships in 1974 and 1977. She was later chief coach at the club and led the team to the West German Championships in 1980 and 1981.

In her youth Stender was a versatile track and field athlete, competing as a sprinter, high jumper, long jumper, shot putter and discus thrower. In 1963 she was Westphalia Champion in pentathlon. By profession Stender became a school teacher. She married volleyball coach Karl Herzog, who was one of the co-founders of USC Münster and who himself had earned 108 international caps. In 1972 Herzog was an assistant coach of the West German women`s national team at the München Olympics.