Kent Steffes
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Kent Steffes (born June 23, 1968 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American beach volleyball player. He was a gold medalist in the 1996 Summer Olympics along with Karch Kiraly. A graduate of Palisades High School in Pacific Palsiades, CA, he latter attended Stanford, and transferred to UCLA graduating with a degree in Economics. In 2000 he enrolled in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford where he graduated in 2002.
Kent has a wife, Michelle Steffes, of Mount Vernon, Virginia, and two children (Katharine Jackson Steffes, born in 2004, and Conrad William Steffes, born in 2006).
[edit] Awards and honors
- AVP Best Up-and-Coming Player 1989
- AVP Comeback Player of the Year 1996
- AVP Most Valuable Player 1996
- AVP Special Achievement 1996
- Greatest Beach Volleyball player in the 1990s
- March 2010 Employee of the Month
- Youngest number one player in the history of AVP (21)
- Record most wins in a season (19)
- Record most consecutive wins (13) (record shared with Kiraly, Menges and Lee)
- "Most dominant player of the 1990s"
- Highest winning percentage in history of the sport (.482)
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Steffes, Kent |
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Volleyball player |
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June 23, 1968 |
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