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Sunday, 25 September 2011

James Blake Wallpapers

James Blake Wallpapers

James Blake

Friday, 23 September 2011

Karch Kiraly Wallpapers

Karch Kiraly Wallpapers

Karch Kiraly

Volleyball Player Karch Kiraly Pictures

Karch Kiraly Pics

Karch Kiraly

Volleyball Player Karch Kiraly Biography

Karch Kiraly Profile

Birth Date : November 3, 1960 (50 years old)
Home Town : Santa Barbara, CA
Resides : San Clemente, CA

Height : 6'2"

College : UCLA
Web Site : www.karchacademy.com

Biography:

The best volleyball player the U. S. has produced and quite possibly the best in the history of the sport, Kiraly learned the game from his father, Laszlo, a former member of the Hungarian national team who escaped from Hungary during the 1956 revolution.

California's most valuable player as a high school senior, he entered UCLA in 1979 and led the school to three NCAA championships, in 1979, 1981, and 1982, and to a second-place finish in 1980. UCLA won 123 of 128 games during his career.
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The 6-foot-3, 190-pound Kiraly was a member of the U. S. national team from 1981 to 1989. During that period, the team won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, at the 1982 and 1986 world championships, and at the 1987 Pan-American Games.

Kiraly was named the best player in the world after being selected for the all-tournament team in the 1986 world championships and he was most valuable player of the 1988 Olympic tournament, in which he had 137 kills, 16 block stuffs, 15 block assists, and a 60 percent kill percentage.

After leaving the national team, Kiraly played for Il Messaggero in Italy and was named most valuable player and best digger when the squad won the 1991 club world championship.

Kiraly has also starred in beach volleyball, winning a record 143 open tournaments. He teamed with Kent Steffens to win the first Olympic gold medal in the sport in 1996.

The Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) named Kiraly its most valuable player six times, in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1998. He was also named the circuit's best offensive player in 1990, 1993, and 1994 and its best defensive player in 2002.

James Blake Girlfriend Pic Pictures

James Blake Girlfriend Pics

James Blake Girlfriend

James Blake Biography

Biography:
James Blake was born on December 28, 1979, in Yonkers, New York, into a tennis family. His father, Thomas, and his mother, Betty, met on the public tennis courts of New York. Thomas Blake learned to play tennis during his tenure in the United States Air Force, while Betty Blake picked up the game as a grade school student in Banbury, England. The Blakes played tennis regularly at the 369th Armory in Harlem and they took their young children with them. By the age of five James began playing tennis with his older brother Thomas, Jr.
When Blake was six years old, his family moved to Fairfield, Connecticut. His father worked as a salesperson for 3M Worldwide, a technology company, while his mother worked as a secretary at the local tennis club. Both Thomas and James took lessons at the Trumbull Tennis Club in Connecticut. It was at this club that Blake met Brian Barker, who began coaching Blake at age 12.
Yet the Blakes ties to Harlem remained strong. They continued to play tennis in Harlem on a regular basis and volunteered at the Harlem Junior Tennis League, a program aimed at introducing tennis to inner-city children. As a result of their parents' involvement in the Harlem program, Blake and his brother participated in the League's tennis clinics. As a biracial child, Blake moved comfortably between the very different worlds of middle-class Fairfield and inner-city Harlem with tennis as a bridge between them. It was at one of the tennis clinics in Harlem that James first heard the famous African-American tennis player Arthur Ashe speak. Ashe was the first black man to reach the number one rankings in international tennis. He was a pioneer for African Americans in a sport that has been dominated by whites. Ashe's passionate speech and his reputation as both a great tennis player and a well-respected person inspired Blake to consider a career in tennis.