Jon Lee (volleyball player)
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Jon Lee (born 1949) is an American indoor and beach volleyball player, coach, and journalist. He won a national championship indoors in 1969 at the University of California Santa Barbara where he was a three time All-American. He won his AAA rating on the beach in 1971 and maintained that rating for well over a decade.
He began playing beach volleyball at age 10 and competed throughout high school and college. Lee played professional volleyball in Spain ('74, '75) and in the USA ('75) before becoming a writer and Senior Editor for Volleyball Magazine, the world's first volleyball publication. He covered Olympic, Pan American and World Championship competition around the world and authored over 100 articles about the sport. He also worked as an ESPN color commentator on television, covering beach doubles and four-man tournaments as well as NCAA and professional indoor matches.
For 23 years he was a highly recognized indoor coach at San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara, California, where he also taught writing and English. His boys and girls volleyball teams both won CIF (Southern California) Championships and many collegiate and Olympic stars emerged from his programs, U.S. Beach Volleyball Gold Medalist Todd Rogers, Dax Holdren, Brook Billings, and Mandy Bible among others. He was named CIF Coach of the Year, three times. Remarkably and most enduringly, 52 of Lee's players have gone on to become volleyball coaches.
In 2015, he won the 60+ Sand National Championship for the third consecutive year and has won 10 other age-level titles at the annual Motherlode Volleyball Classic in Aspen.
Jon's younger brother Greg Lee is a retired American basketball player.
References
- MotherLode Volleyball Classic
- MotherLode Volleyball Classic Results
- Meet Noozhawk’s New Sports Coordinator
- Volleyball Magazine 30th Anniversary Throwback
- Jon Lee in Beach Volleyball Database
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