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{{Short description|Dutch field hockey player}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|birth_date= 15 November 1966
|birth_place=Amsterdam
|medaltemplates={{MedalSport | Women's [[Field Hockey]]}}
{{MedalCountry | the {{NED}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Champions Trophy (field hockey)|Champions Trophy]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1987 Women's Champions Trophy (field hockey)|1987 Amstelveen]] | Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[EuroHockey Nations Championship|European Nations Cup]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1987 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship|1987 London]]| Team}}
}}

'''Maryse Abendanon''' (born 15 November 1966 in [[Amsterdam]]) is a former Dutch [[field hockey]] player, who earned a total number of seventeen international caps in 1987 for the [[Netherlands women's national field hockey team|Dutch women's team]], in which she scored four goals. She was a member of the squad that won the inaugural Women's Champions Trophy in 1987.

==Biography==
Abendanon grew up in the city of [[Baarn]], Netherlands. In her youth at the Baarnsch Lyceum she played in the national B- and later on A-teams. After her breakthrough as youth-player, she began to play at the highest level at that moment in the national competition. She did this at the hockey-club of [[Laren, North Holland|Laren]], Netherlands.

At the age of 18 she has been selected for 'Jong-Oranje', the Dutch national youth team. She also transfers herself to the [[Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club]],<ref>[http://www.mhcmuiderberg.nl/site/default.asp?Option=51&NewsID=177 MHC Muiderberg, 9 April 2008]</ref> the Amsterdam hockey-club. She would play by then sixteen times for the Dutch national team.<ref>[https://www.knhb.nl/app/uploads/2017/02/Hockeyboek-Internationals.pdf KNHB]</ref> In 1987 she won the [[1987 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy|Champions Trophy]] in [[Amstelveen]] and the [[1987 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship|EuroHockey Nations Championship]].

After her career, she became a trainer at hockey-clubs in [[Muiderberg]] and [[Baarn]],<ref>[http://www.hockeystyle.nl/hockeynieuws/tophockey-een-kwestie-van-mentaliteit/ Hockestyle 15 September 2016]</ref> where she still lives and works.

==References==
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* {{in lang|nl}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926221320/http://www.knhb.nl/oranje/interlandhistorie/cDU300_Interlandhistorie.aspx?intPlayerId=172892&strFilter=c3RySU1TZWFyY2hQaHJhc2U9QWJlbmRhbm9uJmludEZhY2V0VHlwZT0wJmludFNwb3J0VHlwZT0w Dutch Hockey Federation]

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