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American volleyball player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Allen Lambert (born April 14, 1974)[1] is an American former volleyball player who is a two-time Olympian with the United States national volleyball team. His team finished ninth place at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and eleventh at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[2]
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| Full name | Michael Allen Lambert | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | April 14, 1974 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 205 lb (93 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 140 in (356 cm) | |||||||||||||||||
| Block | 127 in (323 cm) | |||||||||||||||||
| College / University | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Opposite | |||||||||||||||||
| Number | 14 (1996) 3 (2000) | |||||||||||||||||
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Lambert went to Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii along with Stein Metzger.[3] His subsequent partnership with Metzger in the AVP resulted in nine titles.[1]
Lambert played volleyball at Stanford University. He and fellow AVP player Matt Fuerbringer were members of the 1997 NCAA Championship team for volleyball.[4] He was the Most Outstanding Player of the 1997 NCAA Championship tournament.[5] He was also a three-time All-American.[4] Lambert graduated from Stanford in 1997 with a degree in political science.[4]
In 2004, Lambert was selected as the AVP Most Valuable Player, the AVP Best Offensive Player, and part of the AVP Team of the Year with partner Karch Kiraly.[1] In his career, Lambert won 16 tournaments and $520,000 in prizes playing beach volleyball.[1]
In 2018, Lambert was inducted to the California Beach Volleyball Hall of Fame.[6]
Lambert lives in Costa Mesa, California with his wife, Deborah, and their two children Jack and Sveva.[1]
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