Early career Hoefnagel was born in
Beneden-Leeuwen and started her career in gymnastics in 1993 at a local team in the same city. In 1996 she joined one of the most prestigious club teams in the Netherlands,
Nijmegen based
GTV De Hazenkamp. She started off in the youth squads, but found herself in the top sport squad of coach
Boris Orlov since 1999.
Senior career In 2006, she was part of the Dutch national team that took part in the
2006 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in
Volos where they finished in eighth position. Although she finished just in 108th position in the senior allround discipline, she reached the junior top 10 at the eighth position. Later that year she also was part of the team that participated in the
2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in
Aarhus where the Netherlands finished in 15th position, claiming a ticket for the 2007 edition in
Stuttgart, the tournament that will be the
2008 Summer Olympics qualification. In the individual allround competition she finished in 66th position out of 223 participants. Although 2006 was her international breakthrough year it was also the year of the end of her career. On 11 December 2006, two months after her 18th birthday she decided to concentrate on her social life instead of training daily to become better in gymnastics. ==Eponymous skill==