Lausanne, Switzerland, January 2, 2012 – Readers of volleyball magazines and the website www.volleyball.de have voted Margareta Kozuch and Georg Grozer as Germany’s volleyball players of the year. The pair, who both earn their money in the Polish League, won their respective awards for the second year running. They are key fixtures of the German national teams that are hoping to qualify for the 2012 London Olympic Games. 

Kozuch polled 31 per cent of the vote, 4 per cent more than Angelina Grun, who in turn had more than double the number of votes of third-placed Christiane Furst. Kathleen Weiss was fourth and Maren Brinker fifth. 

Grozer also took 31 per cent of the vote, beating Bjorn Andrae by 3 per cent. Third-placed Jochen Schops polled 19 percent of the vote and was followed by Lukas Kampa and Stefan Hubner.