- Gabrielle Reece
Gabrielle Reece (born January 6, 1970) is an American professional volleyball player, sports presenter and former fashion model. Reece stands at 6 ft 3 inch (190.5 cm). Her measurments are 36-24-35, according to "Celebrity Sleuth" magazine and according to her book "Big Girl in the Middle" wears a size 11 shoes. Her stature is genetic - her mother is 6 ft 2 inches. In 1989 she was named by Elle magazine as one of the five most beautiful Women in the world.
- Kerri Walsh
Kerri Lee Walsh (born August 15, 1978) is an American beach volleyball player. Walsh was born in the U.S. state of California to Tim and Margie Walsh, and grew up in Saratoga, California. As a high school student, she played on the varsity team at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose. Walsh continued on to Stanford University, where she won national titles in 1996 and 1997 and was a four-year first-team All-American, …
- Karch Kiraly
Kiraly has earned more than three million dollars playing beach volleyball and is the 'winningest' player in the history of beach volleyball . He has finished lower than ninth place only four times and has been in the semifinals over 80% of the time. Karch Kiraly was taught how to play volleyball at six years old from his father, Laazio, a former Hungarian Junior National Team player. Kiraly graduated from high school third in his class with a 3.96 grade-point average.
- Logan Tom
Logan Maile Lei Tom (born May 25, 1981 in Napa, California) is an Olympic indoor volleyball and professional beach volleyball player. She is the daughter of former NFL Football player Melvyn Tom. Though she grew up with her mom and brother in Salt Lake City, Utah, she spent her summers with her dad in Hawaii learning how to surf. In 2000, she became the youngest woman to ever be selected for the USA Olympic volleyball team. She was just 19 years old at the time.
- Misty May-Treanor
Misty May-Treanor is a professional beach volleyball player in the United States. She was born on July 30, 1977 in Costa Mesa, CA. She currently resides in Coral Springs, FL. May graduated from California State University, Long Beach, where she won a national championship, received the Athlete of the Year Award in 1998, and was on the All American First Team for three years.
- Holly McPeak
Holly McPeak (born May 15, 1969 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) is an American beach volleyball player. As of 2005, McPeak has 72 career beach volleyball titles and $1.3 million USD in career earnings, both of which are the most of any woman in the history of professional beach volleyball. She also won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics with partner Elaine Youngs. McPeak, at 5 feet 7 inches, is considered very short for beach volleyball, …
- Elaine Youngs
Elaine Youngs (born February 14, 1970 in El Toro, California) is an American beach volleyball player. As of 2005, Youngs has won 33 professional beach volleyball tournaments in her career. In addition, she won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics with teammate Holly McPeak. In 2002, she was named MVP of the AVP. Youngs is a 1993 graduate of UCLA, where she majored in history. She currently teams up with Rachel Wacholder, but in August 2006, …
- Flo Hyman
Flora Jean Hyman was an American volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist. Nicknamed the "Clutchman", Hyman was extremely tall for a female, standing at 6'5" (196 cm). Some consider her the best volleyball player ever. She was the best volleyball player in her league at the time of her tragic death in 1986.
- Stacy Sykora
Stacy Denise Sykora (born June 24, 1977 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a two-time All-American volleyball player for Texas A&M University who competed in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympics as part of the US Women's National Volleyball team.
- Sinjin Smith
Christopher St. John ("Sinjin") Smith (born May 7, 1957 in Santa Monica, California) is a professional beach volleyball player. He won one U.S. championship and two World championships with Randy Stoklos. The oldest elite player in the world, Smith has competed in more beach volleyball events than any other player. He and Carl Henkel tied for fifth at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Lang Ping
Lang Ping, was born in Tianjin, China, known as Jenny Lang Ping, is one of the most famous and respected individuals in the history of volleyball. She was hired as the head coach of the USA women's national volleyball team on February 7, 2005. Her nickname is "Iron Hammer" (simplified Chinese: 铁榔头). She is considered by many a "national hero" in China and her name is immediately recognizable among Chinese over 30. According to USA Volleyball, …
- Todd Rogers
Todd Rogers (born September 30, 1973 in Santa Barbara, California) is a top professional beach volleyball player on the AVP Professional Beach Volleyball Tour. After a successful one year career as the Laguna Blanca High School Junior Varsity volleyball coach in 1999, together with partner Phil Dalhausser, he won eight team events on the 2006 AVP Tour. This was the most wins by any men's team on the tour. Todd was named MVP and Best Defensive Player on the tour.
- Ogonna Nnamani
Ogonna Nneka Nnamani is an American indoor volleyball player, since 2007-01 playing for Voléro Zürich. She attended University High School in Normal, Illinois, has a younger sister Njideka Nnamani who plays volleyball at Stanford University, a brother named Nnaemeka Nnamani who jumps track at Illinois State University, and another brother named Ikechi Nnamani.
- Jenny Johnson Jordan
Jenny Johnson Jordan (born June 8, 1973) is an American beach volleyball player, who won the silver medal at the 1999 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Marseille, alongside Annett Davis.
- Jackie Silva
Jacqueline ("Jackie") Louise Cruz Silva (born February 13, 1962 in Rio de Janeiro) is a retired beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the inaugural women's beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Sandra Pires.
- Ekaterina Gamova
Ekaterina Gamova (born October 17, 1980 in Chelyabinsk) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 2006 FIVB Women's World Championship, and the silver medal in both the Athens 2004 and Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She is 2.06 metres (6 ft 9 in) tall, making her one of the tallest female athletes in the world.
- Leila Barros
Leila Gomes de Barros is a Brazilian female volleyball player who often played as opposite hitter and attacker. She was a member of the Brazilian squad who had great success in the late 1990s and early 2000s, winning the 1996 and 1998 editions of the volleyball Grand Prix and being rated the most valuable player (MVP) in each win. Barros's sporting talents have catapulted her into stardom and can be measured by the number of titles the player has won.
- Stein Metzger
Stein Metzger (born November 17, 1972 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a top beach volleyball player from the United States, playing in the AVP. In 2006 he played with his high school teammate, Mike Lambert, and they advanced to the Final Four in fourteen of the fifteen team events, winning five times. They formed the only team to not have a losing record against any other team that season. Metzger made his Olympic beach volleyball debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, …
- Rachel Wacholder
Rachel Wacholder (born June 15, 1975 in Laguna Beach, California) is a model and beach volleyball player. In 2006, she was the No. 2 seed on the AVP tour along with her partner, beach volleyball veteran Elaine Youngs. During the 2005 AVP tour, Wacholder and Youngs dealt top-seeded Kerri Walsh and Misty May a surprise defeat at the Huntington Beach Open, and were defeated by only narrow margins in several other tournaments that year.
- Elaina Oden
Elaina Oden (born March 21, 1967 in Orange, California) is a former volleyball player from the United States, who won the bronze medal with the United States women's national volleyball team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Oden keyed U.S. victories with statistical leadership in 1994 World Championship vs. Kenya (8 kills, 4 stuffs, 10-21), Czech Republic (16 kills, 2 stuffs, 2 aces, 10-22) and Japan (6 stuffs), …
- Kerri Pottharst
Kerri Ann Pottharst OAM (born June 25, 1965) is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist. Pottharst was born in Adelaide, South Australia and currently resides in Sydney. In addition to her volleyball commitments, Pottharst is the face of "beach2xl", a corporate team building program, and does motivational speaking.
- Eric Fonoimoana
Eric Fonoimoana (born June 7, 1969) is an American volleyball player who currently resides in Hermosa Beach, California. He was born in Manhattan Beach, California, and attended UCSB. He is most notable for winning the gold medal in the 2000 Olympic Games. He has earned approximately 1 million dollars playing volleyball. He has played professionally for more than 18 years, and has entered over 200 tournaments. Fonoimoana's partner is Dain Blanton.
- Phil Dalhausser
Phil Dalhausser (born January 26 1980) is an American beach volleyball player. At 6'9", Dalhausser led the 2005 AVP tour in blocks and was sixth in kill percentage. As of 2006, Dalhausser teams up with Todd Rogers. Dalhausser has previously teamed up with Nick Lucena. As of 2006, Dalhausser resides in Santa Barbara, California. Dalhausser was born in Switzerland from a German father and Swiss mother. He lived in Switzerland for one year.
- J. P. Calderon
John Paul "J.P." Calderon (born September 5, 1975 in Santa Monica, California, USA) is a professional volleyball player, model and reality television participant. He first appeared on television as a contestant on the controversial racially segregated "Survivor: Cook Islands", the 13th season of the CBS reality show. Later, he returned to television by appearing on several episodes to date of The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, …
- Jake Gibb
Jake Gibb (born February 6, 1976 in Bountiful, Utah) is a top beach volleyball player from the United States, playing in the AVP.
- Zhao Ruirui
Zhao Ruirui (born 8 October 1981 in Nanjing, China) is a Chinese volleyball player who competed on the 2003 volleyball World Cup winning side and made an initial appearance with the 2004 Gold Medal winning side before refracturing her right leg. At 196cm Zhao plays a middle blocker.
- Sandra Pires
Sandra Pires Tavares (born June 16, 1973 in Rio de Janeiro) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the inaugural women's beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Jackie Silva. She also represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where she claimed the bronze medal, teaming up with Adriana Samuel.
- Reid Priddy
William "Reid" Priddy (b. October 1, 1977 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American volleyball player on the United States men's national volleyball team. He has also played on the AVP tour from 2000 to 2006. Position: Outside Hitter<br>; Height: 6-5 (196cm)<br> Weight: 89kg<br> Hometown: Richmond, Va.<br> College: Loyola Marymount<br> Birth Date: Oct. 1, 1977<br> Joined Team: May 2000<br><br>
- Annett Davis
Annett Davis (born September 22, 1973) is an American beach volleyball player, who won the silver medal at the 1999 Beach Volleyball World Championships, alongside Jenny Johnson Jordan.
- Tayyiba Haneef
Tayyiba Haneef (born march 23, 1979) is a volleyball player from the United States of America, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There she ended up in 5th place with the American women's National Team.
- Randy Stoklos
Randy Stoklos (born December 13, 1960) is the first player to earn $1,000,000 in beach volleyball. He won one U.S. championship and two World championships with Sinjin Smith. He is a four-time winner of the Manhattan Beach Open.
- Natalie Cook
Natalie Louise Cook OAM (born January 19, 1975) is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist. Cook was born in Townsville, Queensland. She was the dux of her high school, and subsequently studied medicine. At the same time, she took up volleyball, captaining the Australian Indoor Junior Team in 1992. In 1993, she began playing beach volleyball, before giving up her academic career and going professional the following year.
- Adriana Behar
Adriana Brandão Behar is one of the most outstanding volleyball players of her generation. She moved to beach volleyball in 1993, after playing in the Brazilian Women national indoors volleyball squad. Pairing with Shelda Bede, she has won more than 30 international tournaments of beach volleyball as well as two Olympic medals.
- Kent Steffes
Kent Steffes (born June 23, 1968 in Pacific Palisades, California) is an American beach volleyball player. He was a gold medalist in the 1996 Summer Olympics along with Karch Kiraly. He attended Stanford, and later transfed to UCLA. He graduated with a degree in Economics.
- Dain Blanton
Dain Blanton (born November 28, 1971 in Santa Monica, California) is an American beach volleyball player, who attended Pepperdine where he helped The Waves win a National Volleyball Championship in 1992 as a sophomore. He won the gold medal in the 2000 Olympic Games, alongside partner Eric Fonoimoana. He returned to the 2004 Olympic Games with partner Jeff Nygaard as the first two-time U.S. male Beach Volleyball Olympian.
- Doug Beal
Doug Beal (b. 4 March 1947, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American volleyball player and coach, the current USA Volleyball CEO, and a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
- Alix Klineman
Alix Klineman is a volleyball player from Manhattan Beach, California. A current high school senior, as a 6-4 Outside Hitter she is the #1 volleyball recruit for the class of 2007 as selected by PrepVolleyball.com.
- Russ Rose
Russ Rose is an American volleyball coach at Penn State University (1979-present). His coaching record is 859-154, an .848 winning percentage that ranks second nationally among active coaches. His squads have secured 30 or more wins in a season 19 times and 36 or more victories six times. In 1986, Rose married Lori Barberich, a former three-time All-American at Penn State. They are the parents of four sons, Jonathan, Nicholas, Christopher and Michael.
- Mireya Luis
Alexandrina Mireya Luis is a Cuban Olympic volleyball player.
- Emanuel Rego
Emanuel Fernando Sheffer Rego (born April 15, 1973 in Curitiba) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, partnering [[Ricardo Montalban Victor Emanuel Hidalgo Dos Santos