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Sport · Volleyball
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Lloy James Ball was born 17 February 1972 in Fort Wayne and grew up at Woodburn, attending Woodlan High School. Indiana sanctioned no boys' volleyball, so he played the sport in summers only — and at fifteen was the youngest player ever at the 1987 United States Olympic Festival. Bobby Knight recruited him to play basketball at Indiana; Ball chose volleyball at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (1991–95), playing setter for his father, coach Arnie Ball, and finishing with 6,526 career assists, then the second-highest total in NCAA history. With the United States national team (1993–2008) he became the first American man to play in four Olympic volleyball tournaments — Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and Beijing 2008 — captaining and setting the 2008 team that beat Brazil in the final for the gold medal. His professional club career ran through Japan, Italy, Greece, and Russia, including a European Champions League title with Zenit Kazan in 2008. He was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2015, and into the IPFW Athletics Hall of Fame in its inaugural class of 2006.
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Sources: International Volleyball Hall of Fame, Lloy Ball biography; Team USA profile; Wikipedia, "Lloy Ball."