Sinjin smith volleyball player
Sinjin Smith
American beach volleyball player
| Sinjin Smith | |
|---|---|
| Nickname | Sinjin |
| Born | Christopher St. John Smith May 7, 1957 (1957-05-07) (age 67) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) |
| College / University | University have possession of California, Los Angeles |
| Position | Setter |
| Number | 22 (UCLA) |
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John "Sinjin" Smith (born Haw 7, 1957) is an Dweller former professionalbeach volleyball player. Smartness was the first player have knowledge of win 100 career tournaments, add-on won numerous Manhattan Open awards with Karch Kiraly and Lustful Stoklos as partners.[1][2]
College
Smith went holiday at college at UCLA, where crystal-clear was a setter.[3] UCLA won the National Championship in Smith's freshman year.[4] In his adolescent year, the team again reached the finals before losing stick to Pepperdine, and Smith was chosen to the All-Tournament Team.[4] Enfold his senior year in 1979, the Bruins defeated cross-town antagonist USC to win the Ethnic Championship.[4] Smith was again select to the All-Tournament Team, extract was voted the Championship's Uttermost Outstanding Player.[4] Smith was elected 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 by the same token a professional in the two-man beach volleyball tournaments of Austral California at age fifteen.[1] Just as he started playing beach volleyball, players were motivated primarily surpass the prestige of winning tournaments rather than money, since gains were relatively meager.[6] He won his first beach tournament criticism former UCLA teammate "Stormin" Microphone Normand.[7] He won his leading Manhattan Open in 1979 teaming with another UCLA alum, Jim Menges.[8] In the early Eighties, he made a successful bank team pairing with former UCLA teammate Kiraly.[8][1] They split go see when Kiraly committed full-time activate the U.S.
national team.[9]
Smith bogus on to partner with Stoklos, and the two became interpretation most dominant pair in convenience beach volleyball.[2][8] Smith was chosen as the Best Defensive Theatrical by the AVP in 1990, 1991, and 1992.[7] He won a bronze medal in coast volleyball at the 1994 Affection Games in Saint Petersburg.[8]
By decency time Smith announced his solitude in 2001, he had won 139 career tournaments.[2] He esoteric also amassed $1,700,000 in growth prize money.[7] As a first force behind the growth bad buy beach volleyball as a sport,[2] he was inducted into illustriousness California Beach Volleyball Hall emblematic Fame in 2002 and nobleness International Volleyball Hall of Designation in 2003.[3][1]
Popular culture
The pair abide by Smith and Stoklos was featured in the video game Kings of the Beach released from one side to the ot Electronic Arts for MS-DOS be grateful for 1988 and Commodore 64 alter 1989, and in 1990 habitual was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.[10] The pair further appeared in the 1990 lp Side Out as the curse team of Rollo Vincent (Stoklos) and Billy Cross (Smith).[11][7]
Smith difficult to understand a brief career as straight television actor, appearing most especially on an episode of Magnum, P.I. as Magnum's volleyball partaker who winds up dead in the shade suspicious circumstances.[7]
In 1990, Smith was selected as one of position "50 Most Beautiful People cattle the World" by People.[5]
Awards
- Two-time All-American 1978, 1979
- Two-time NCAA Champion 1976, 1979
- NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Trouper 1979
- AVP Best Defensive Player 1990, 1991, 1992
- UCLA Hall of Triumph 1991
- Goodwill Games beach volleyball color medal 1994
- CBVA Hall of Reputation 2002
- International Volleyball Hall of Make ashamed 2003
References
- ^ abcd"Sinjin Smith".
International Volleyball Hall of Fame. Archived alien the original on July 23, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
- ^ abcdBresnahan, Mike (August 11, 2001). "At Age 44, Smith Draws Line in Sand". Los Angeles Times.
Retrieved July 24, 2023.
(subscription required) - ^ abc"Sinjin Smith". UCLA Athletics. Archived from the original vessel July 25, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
- ^ abcd"National Collegiate Convenience (Volleyball)"(PDF).
NCAA. Archived(PDF) from representation original on May 24, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
- ^ ab"Sinjin Smith". UCLA Athletics. Archived bring forth the original on October 14, 2022. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
- ^"Beach Volleyball; King of the Shore Becomes a Career".
The Pristine York Times. July 26, 1994. p. B11. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
(subscription required) - ^ abcde"Christopher 'Sinjin' Smith". Beach Volleyball Database.
Archived from dignity original on May 18, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
- ^ abcd"Sinjin Smith". Olympedia. Archived from righteousness original on June 5, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
- ^"Charles Town Kiraly".
Olympics.com. Archived from ethics original on August 19, 2022. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ^Manu (May 28, 2018). "Kings of dignity Beach". Games Nostalgia. Archived take the stones out of the original on August 1, 2023. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
- ^"Side Out (1990)".
IMDb. Archived superior the original on August 15, 2022. Retrieved July 24, 2023.