{{short description|German handball player (born 1985)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox handball biography | name = Angie Geschke | fullname = Angie Birgit Geschke | image = | nationality = German | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|5|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Lübeck, Germany | height = 1.77 m | position = Left wing | currentclub = ''Retired'' | clubnumber = | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = TuS Lübeck 93 | youthyears2 = {{0|0000}}–2000 | youthclubs2 = SC Buntekuh Lübeck | years1 = 2000–2007 | clubs1 = Frankfurter HC | years2 = 2007–2008 | clubs2 = Randers HK | years3 = 2008–2012 | clubs3 = VfL Oldenburg | years4 = 2012–2013 | clubs4 = Vipers Kristiansand | years5 = 2013 | clubs5 = Bayer Leverkusen | years6 = 2013–2019 | clubs6 = VfL Oldenburg | years7 = 2023 | clubs7 = SG Obenstrohe/Dangastermoor | nationalyears1 = 2006– | nationalteam1 = Germany | nationalcaps1 = 110 | nationalgoals1 = 211 }} '''Angie Birgit Geschke''' (born 24 May 1985) is a German former handball player for the German national team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurohandball.com/player/520016|title=Angie Geschke|publisher=eurohandball.com|accessdate=4 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dhb.de/de/data/spieler/a-nationalmannschaft-frauen/angie-geschke/|title=Profile|publisher=dhb.de|accessdate=14 June 2014}}</ref>
==Career== Geschke started playing handball at TuS Lübeck 93 at a young age, and later played youth handball at SC Buntekuh.<ref name="elfen">[http://www.leverkusen.com/presse/db/presse.php?view=00024287 Angie Geschke kommt nach Leverkusen]</ref>
In 2000, she joined Frankfurter HC, where she won the 2003 DHB-Pokal and the 2004 German Championship. In the 2006-07 season she was the top scorer in the Handball-Bundesliga with 210 goals. The same season, she debuted for the German national team against Croatia.
In 2007, Geschke joined Danish side Randers HK. Only a year later, she returned to Germany to play for VfL Oldenburg. In 2012, she joined Norwegian team Vipers Kristiansand.<ref name="vipers">{{cite web|url=http://www.handball-world.com/o.red.c/news-1-2-1-14735.html |publisher=handball-world.com|title=Geschke wechselt als Vollprofi nach Norwegen|accessdate=29 December 2015|language=de}}</ref> Again, she returned to Germany after a year to join Bayer Leverkusen, this time in the summer of 2013.<ref name="elfen" /> In September that same year, she moved back to VfL Oldenburg for personal reasons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.handball-world.news/o.red.r/news-1-2-1-18081.html|publisher=handball-world.news|title=VfL Oldenburg holt Angie Geschke zurück|accessdate=30 March 2018|language=de}}</ref> In 2015-16 she was the top scorer of the Bundesliga again, with 237 goals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.handball-world.com/o.red.c/news-1-2-1-27092.html |publisher=handball-world.com|title=Oldenburger Siegesserie gegen Celle hält|accessdate=15 May 2016|language=de}}</ref>
In 2019, Geschke left Oldenburg once again to retire.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.handball-world.news/o.red.r/news-1-2-1-36466.html |publisher=handball-world.news|title=Oldenburgs Gerüst für die Zukunft steht - Drei namhafte Abgänge|date=30 January 2019|accessdate=27 October 2019|language=de}}</ref>
In the final parts of the 2022-23 season she made a comeback to the court to join SG Obenstrohe/Dangastermoor in the lower leagues.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.weser-kurier.de/landkreis-oldenburg/gemeinde-ganderkesee/handball-landesliga-grueppenbuehren-bookholzberg-unterliegt-obenstrohe-doc7ptqsfncz8k13unsi2ld |publisher=weser-kurier.de |title=Grüppenbühren/Bookholzberg kann Ex-Nationalspielerin nicht stoppen|accessdate=5 October 2023|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://landkreishsg.de/2023/04/20/1-frauen-verliert-wichtiges-spiel/ |publisher=landkreishsg.de|title=1.Frauen verliert wichtiges Spiel|accessdate=5 October 2023|language=de}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Germany squad 2012 European Women's Handball Championship}} {{Germany squad 2013 World Women's Handball Championship}} {{Germany squad 2014 European Women's Handball Championship}} {{Germany squad 2017 World Women's Handball Championship}} {{Germany squad 2018 European Women's Handball Championship}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Geschke, Angie}} Category:1985 births Category:Living people Category:German women's handball players Category:Sportspeople from Lübeck Category:Handball players from Schleswig-Holstein Category:German expatriate sportspeople in Norway Category:German expatriate handball players in Denmark Category:Expatriate handball players in Norway Category:21st-century German sportswomen Category:Randers HK players