Gavin Schmitt
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| Full name | Gavin Charles Schmitt | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
January 27, 1986 Grande Prairie, Alberta | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 102 kg (225 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 369 cm (145 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Block | 339 cm (133 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| College(s) |
University of Saskatchewan Red Deer College | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Opposite | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Current club |
 Asseco Resovia Rzeszów | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Last updated: 6 May 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gavin Charles Schmitt (born January 27, 1986) is a Canadian volleyball player, who started playing volleyball in Saskatoon for the HVC volleyball club, and eventually went on to win the silver medal with the men's national team at the 2013 NORCECA Volleyball Championship in Langley, Canada.
From 2009 to 2012, Schmitt played for the Daejeon Samsung Bluefangs in South Korea's V-League, where he led the team to three consecutive titles winning the MVP awards in the 2009–10 and 2011–12 seasons.
Schmitt led the national team in scoring in six of the seven matches he played for Canada at the 2014 World Championship in Poland, where Canada finished seventh for its best result ever in the championship that has been held 18 times since 1949.
In July 2016, he was named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team.[1]
Sporting Achievements
Club
National Championships
- 2009
KOVO Cup, with Daejeon Samsung - 2010
V-League Championship, with Daejeon Samsung - 2011 V-League Championship, with Daejeon Samsung
- 2012 V-League Championship, with Daejeon Samsung
- 2015 Turkish First League Championship, with Arkas Izmir
- 2016
South American Club Championship, with Funvic Taubaté
National Team
- 2008 Pan American Cup
- 2009 Pan American Cup
- 2011
Pan American Cup - 2011 NORCECA Championship
- 2013 NORCECA Championship
- 2015 Pan American Games
Individual Awards
- 2008 Pan American Cup – Best Spiker
- 2009 Pan American Cup – Best Scorer
- 2011 Pan American Cup – Best Scorer, Best Spiker
- 2015 Pan American Games – Best Scorer, Best Server[2]
References
- ↑ Hossain, Asif (22 July 2016). "Canada's men's volleyball team ready for Rio after long Olympic absence". Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ↑ "Player ranking by skill" (PDF). Retrieved 28 June 2016.
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