Maike Becker

Maike Balthazar ( Maike Becker 12 April 1962 in Esens, Lower Saxony) is a German handball player and coach who played for the West German national team. She represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where the West German team placed fourth. She played for TuS Esens, MTV Aurich, VfL Oldenburg, TuS Walle Bremen and Harpstedter TB. In 1981 she won the DHB-pokal with VfL Oldenburg.

Coaching career From 2002 to 2011 she was a part of the coaching staff at VfL Oldenburg, where she had also played. From 2002 to 2006 as assistant and from 2006 to 2011 as Youth Coordinator. In this period she was also coaching the German youth national team. where she was until 2013.

In December 2017 she became the head coach of VfL Oldenburg.

Private life She has a degree in pedagogy.