SALUTING UCLA’S OLYMPIANS

Th e 1988 gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic Team featured four former UCLA greats (l-r): Doug Partie, Dave Saunders, and . Saunders and Kiraly also helped the U.S win the gold in 1984 in Los Angeles. Partie won a bronze medal in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

UCLA’S MEN’S OLYMPIC TEAM MEMBERS 1964– Mike O’Hara, Ernie Suwara, Keith Erickson 1968– 1984– Karch Kiraly, Steve Salmons, Dave Saunders 1988– Karch Kiraly, Ricci Luyties, Doug Partie, Dave Saunders Kiraly and Kent Steff es 1992– Doug Partie*, Fred Sturm (coach), Greg won the gold medal in Giovanazzi (Asst. Coach) the inaugural beach vol- leyball competition in 1996– Carl Henkel, Karch Kiraly Atlanta in 1996. With his , Bjorn Maaseide (Norway), Jeff two indoor gold medals Nygaard, , Kent Steff es, Fred and his beach gold, Kiraly Sturm (Coach), Rudy Suwara (Asst. Coach) is the only male 2000– Dan Landry, player in Olympic history , Bjorn Maaseide (Norway), to win three gold medals. Mark Williams (Australia), Kevin Wong 2004– Bjorn Maaseide (Norway), Stein Metzger, Jeff Nygaard Erik Sullivan, Mark Williams (Australia) 2008– (Assistant Coach) 2012– John Speraw (Assistant Coach) Karch Kiraly (Assistant Women’s Coach)** 2016– John Speraw (Head Coach) Karch Kiraly (Head Women’s Coach) Gold medalists in bold **Silver medalist, *Bronze medalist

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Clockwise from left corner: Kevin Wong, Jeff Nygaard, Mark Williams (Australia), Dan Landry, Stein Metzger, Erik Sullivan and John Speraw (middle). A total of 35 former volleyball players have represented UCLA in the . Photos courtesy of USA Volleyball.

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