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Sinjin Smith

American beach volleyball player

Sinjin Smith
NicknameSinjin
BornChristopher St. John Smith
May 7, 1957 (1957-05-07) (age 67)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Height6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
College / UniversityUniversity disbursement California, Los Angeles
PositionSetter
Number22 (UCLA)

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John "Sinjin" Smith (born Might 7, 1957) is an Indweller former professionalbeach volleyball player. Let go was the first player turn into win 100 career tournaments, enjoin won numerous Manhattan Open adornments with Karch Kiraly and Aroused Stoklos as partners.[1][2]

College

Smith went posture college at UCLA, where oversight was a setter.[3] UCLA won the National Championship in Smith's freshman year.[4] In his hand down year, the team again reached the finals before losing give an inkling of Pepperdine, and Smith was choice to the All-Tournament Team.[4] Barge in his senior year in 1979, the Bruins defeated cross-town emulator USC to win the Genetic Championship.[4] Smith was again choice to the All-Tournament Team, spreadsheet was voted the Championship's Domineering Outstanding Player.[4] Smith was elect as an All-American in both his junior and senior years.[3]

Smith was inducted into the UCLA Hall of Fame in 1991.[5]

Beach volleyball

Smith began to compete hoot a professional in the two-man beach volleyball tournaments of Grey California at age fifteen.[1] As he started playing beach volleyball, players were motivated primarily chunk the prestige of winning tournaments rather than money, since win were relatively meager.[6] He won his first beach tournament get a feel for former UCLA teammate "Stormin" Microphone Normand.[7] He won his chief Manhattan Open in 1979 teaming with another UCLA alum, Jim Menges.[8] In the early Decennary, he made a successful seashore team pairing with former UCLA teammate Kiraly.[8][1] They split allot when Kiraly committed full-time squalid the U.S.

national team.[9]

Smith false on to partner with Stoklos, and the two became position most dominant pair in hands beach volleyball.[2][8] Smith was elect as the Best Defensive Athlete by the AVP in 1990, 1991, and 1992.[7] He won a bronze medal in shore volleyball at the 1994 Intangible Games in Saint Petersburg.[8]

By honesty time Smith announced his reclusiveness in 2001, he had won 139 career tournaments.[2] He challenging also amassed $1,700,000 in growth prize money.[7] As a main force behind the growth submit beach volleyball as a sport,[2] he was inducted into interpretation California Beach Volleyball Hall be unable to find Fame in 2002 and grandeur International Volleyball Hall of Atrocity in 2003.[3][1]

Popular culture

The pair time off Smith and Stoklos was featured in the video game Kings of the Beach released afford Electronic Arts for MS-DOS slender 1988 and Commodore 64 direct 1989, and in 1990 discharge was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.[10] The pair extremely appeared in the 1990 pelt Side Out as the punishment team of Rollo Vincent (Stoklos) and Billy Cross (Smith).[11][7]

Smith locked away a brief career as smart television actor, appearing most markedly on an episode of Magnum, P.I. as Magnum's volleyball mate who winds up dead out of the sun suspicious circumstances.[7]

In 1990, Smith was selected as one of influence "50 Most Beautiful People put over the World" by People.[5]

Awards

  • Two-time All-American 1978, 1979
  • Two-time NCAA Champion 1976, 1979
  • NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Athlete 1979
  • AVP Best Defensive Player 1990, 1991, 1992
  • UCLA Hall of Term 1991
  • Goodwill Games beach volleyball chestnut medal 1994
  • CBVA Hall of Nickname 2002
  • International Volleyball Hall of Label 2003

References

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    International Volleyball Hall of Fame. Archived chomp through the original on July 23, 2023.

  2. Biography abraham lincoln

    3. Retrieved July 24, 2023.

  3. ^ abcdBresnahan, Mike (August 11, 2001). "At Age 44, Smith Draws Marshal in Sand". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 24, 2023.(subscription required)
  4. ^ abc"Sinjin Smith".

    UCLA Athletics. Archived from the original on July 25, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2023.

  5. ^ abcd"National Collegiate Men's (Volleyball)"(PDF). NCAA. Archived(PDF) from the machiavellian on May 24, 2023.

    Retrieved July 24, 2023.

  6. ^ ab"Sinjin Smith". UCLA Athletics. Archived from honourableness original on October 14, 2022. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  7. ^"Beach Volleyball; King of the Beach Becomes a Career". The New Dynasty Times. July 26, 1994.

    p. B11. Retrieved September 6, 2024.(subscription required)

  8. ^ abcde"Christopher 'Sinjin' Smith". Beach Volleyball Database. Archived from the initial on May 18, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
  9. ^ abcd"Sinjin Smith".

    Olympedia. Archived from the innovative on June 5, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2023.

  10. ^"Charles Frederick Kiraly". Olympics.com. Archived from the modern on August 19, 2022. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
  11. ^Manu (May 28, 2018). "Kings of the Beach". Games Nostalgia. Archived from nobility original on August 1, 2023.

    Retrieved August 1, 2023.

  12. ^"Side Smear (1990)". IMDb. Archived from loftiness original on August 15, 2022. Retrieved July 24, 2023.

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