Logan Tom

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Logan Tom
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Tom at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Personal information
Full nameLogan Maile Lei Tom
Born (1981-05-25) May 25, 1981 (age 42)
Napa, California, U.S.
Height186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Spike306 cm (120 in)
Block297 cm (117 in)
College / University Stanford University
Volleyball information
PositionOutside hitter
Current club Flag of Israel.svg Hapoel KFAR-SABA
Number15
Career
YearsTeams
2002-03 Flag of Brazil.svg MRV/Minas
2003–04 Flag of Italy.svg Monte Schiavo Jesi
2004–05 Flag of Italy.svg Chieri Volley
2005–06 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Voléro Zürich
2006–07 Flag of Spain.svg CV Tenerife
2007–08 Flag of Russia.svg Dinamo Moscow
2008–09 Flag of Japan.svg Hisamitsu Springs
2009–10 Flag of Italy.svg Asystel Novara
2010–11 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Guangdong Evergrande
2011–12 Flag of Turkey.svg Fenerbahçe Universal
2012–13 Flag of Brazil.svg Rio de Janeiro/Unilever/SKY
2013–14 Flag of Italy.svg Openjobmetis Ornavasso
2014–15 Flag of France.svg RC Cannes
2015–16 Flag of Turkey.svg Halkbank Ankara
2016–17 Flag of Indonesia.svg Jakarta Pertamina Energi
2017 Flag of New Zealand.svg Harbour Raiders VC
2017–19 Flag of Israel.svg Maccabi XT Haifa
National team
1999–2012 Flag of the United States.svg USA
Honours
Women's volleyball
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Olympic rings.svg
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2008 Beijing Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2012 London Team
FIVB World Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2002 Germany Team
FIVB World Cup
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Japan Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2003 Japan Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2007 Japan Team
FIVB World Grand Prix
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2001 Macau Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Ningbo Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Macau Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2003 Andria Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2004 Reggio Calabria Team
NORCECA Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2003 Santo Domingo
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Caguas
Pan American Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2003 Saltillo
Last updated: November 2017

Logan Maile Lei Tom (born May 25, 1981) is an American former indoor volleyball and beach volleyball player, and is the current head coach of the Israel women's national volleyball team. She is a four-time Olympian at the outside hitter position. At age 19, Logan became the youngest woman ever to be selected for an American Olympic volleyball team when she competed at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. She is a skilled all-around player who brings stability to the American serve receive and defense, while also providing the team with a solid attack and block at the net. She had been a huge part of the national team from 2000 to 2012. At the 2008 Olympics, Tom helped Team USA win a silver medal and was named Best Scorer, she won another silver medal at the 2012 Olympics with the national team. She was also awarded the Most Valuable Player of the 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix.

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In October 2021, she was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame, along with Clay Stanley and Todd Rogers. [1]

High school and personal life

Logan Tom was born in Napa, California to Kristine and Melvyn Tom. Her father was a defensive end [2] for nine years in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chicago Bears. [3] Though she grew up with her mother and older brother Landon [2] in Salt Lake City, Utah, she spent her summers with her father and his relatives in Hawaii learning how to surf. [4] She is of Chinese Hawaiian descent. [4]

Tom attended Highland High School, where she set the Utah state records for career kills (later broken when Utah moved to five game matches, still second all-time). [5] Tom also competed in basketball and track and was an All-state selection in basketball. She placed third in the state in the javelin as a senior and graduated with a 4.00 GPA and ranked first in her class. Tom also earned the Gatorade Player of the Year awards for volleyball in 1999. In 2000, she became the youngest woman to ever be selected for the USA Olympic volleyball team at 19. [4]

Over the summer of 2003 she was selected as one of eight finalists for the Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year Award in the team category. In 2004, Tom posed in a bikini for an FHM magazine article on female Olympic athletes, [6] and one year later was ranked 91st of the magazine's 100 sexiest women list. [7]

Stanford

Tom attended Stanford University from 1999 to 2002 but did not graduate with her class. She left Stanford 50 units shy of completing her major in International Relations in December 2002, her last term of collegiate athletic eligibility. [8] She officially graduated from Stanford in the summer of 2014. In October 2013, Tom was inducted into the Stanford University Athletics Hall of Fame.

1999 (freshman)

Tom was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) and Pac-10 National Freshman of the Year and became only the fourth volleyball player in NCAA history to receive AVCA First Team All-America honors as a true freshman. She led the Cardinal and ranked second in the Pac-10 in both kills (4.63 kpg) and service aces (0.45 sapg) and ranked second on the team in digs (2.73 dpg). She finished with a total of 472 kills, while also adding a .320 attack percentage (#8 Pac-10) and a 0.94 block per game average.

She was named the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team after having 29 kills in the NCAA semifinal match against defending national champion Long Beach State. Her squad finished as NCAA runners-up to Penn State.

2000 (sophomore)

Tom missed a month and a half of the season while playing on the U.S. national volleyball team in the 2000 Olympics. Tom is the first woman in the history of Stanford athletics to appear in the Olympics and then return to compete for Stanford. She was named an AVCA First Team All-American. For the year, she averaged 5.86 kills, 3.20 digs, 0.41 service aces and 0.86 blocks per game and hit .350 for the season. She notched double figures in kills in 16 consecutive matches.

2001 (junior)

Tom was named the AVCA National Player of the Year, in addition to being named the Honda Award winner for volleyball, the Pac-10 Player of the Year and her third consecutive First Team All-America honor. She averaged 5.09 kills, 0.54 service aces, 3.49 digs and 0.90 blocks per game and played in 122 games (35 matches). She recorded 10 or more kills in 50 of 51 matches, dating back to the 2000 season and notched a double-double in 25 matches.

She was named the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship Most Outstanding Player after leading her team to the 2001 National Championship over top ranked and previously undefeated Long Beach State as she had 25 kills, 12 digs and five blocks against the 49'ers after having 22 kills and five blocks against Nebraska in the NCAA semifinal.

In 2002, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's top female collegiate volleyball player. [9] [10]

2002 (senior)

She was named the AVCA National Player of the Year for the second consecutive year and become the third player in NCAA history to be named a First Team All-American for four consecutive years. She was the Honda Award winner for volleyball for the second year in a row and was named the Pac-10 Player of the Year for the second consecutive year.

She averaged 4.89 kills, 0.34 service aces, 3.28 digs, 0.82 blocks and 5.81 points per game and finished off her career with 1,939 career kills and is the all-time leader at Stanford surpassing Kristin Klein (1,909) and is third all-time in the Pac-10. Her 171 career service aces ranks second on in Stanford history and third in the league . She averaged 5.02 kills per game for her career which ranks second all-time in the conference record books.

She was named to the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team for the third time in her four years at Stanford, as she had 16 kills, 13 digs, four aces and four blocks in Stanford's losing effort to USC in the National Championship match.

In 2003, she repeated as the winner of the Honda Sports Award, given to the nation's top female collegiate volleyball player. [9] [10]

Olympic and international career

Tom's very first professional appearance was with the Brazilian team, MRV/Minas of the Brazil Superliga, on January 18, 2003, exactly two weeks after signing with them, on January 4, 2003. [8]

Tom appeared in the 2000 Sydney Olympics (4th place), 2004 Athens Olympics (5th place), 2008 Beijing Olympics (silver medal), and the 2012 London Olympics (silver medal). Tom was named the "Best scorer" of the 2008 Olympic games.

In 2004, Tom was named the Most Valuable Player of the World Grand Prix after leading all players in scoring with 224 points in 13 matches (179 kills, 24 blocks and 21 service aces) where she also garnered "Best server" accolades.

From 2004–2007, she took a break from the national team, after claiming to be "burnt out" after a disappointing 5th-place finish at the Athens Olympics. However despite that, she continued to play professionally in Italy, Switzerland, and Spain. She also played beach volleyball (partnering with Holly McPeak, among others). She was the 2006 AVP Rookie of the Year and recorded 14 top-10 finishes in 2007. [11]

In 2007, she was named one of three FIVB World Cup most valuable player nominees as she averaged 4.10 points per set at the World Cup in her first international tournament with Team USA in nearly three years. She averaged 3.35 kills, 0.65 blocks, 1.95 digs and 0.10 aces per set at the World Cup while starting 40 of 41 sets.

On September 15, 2008, Hisamitsu Springs, a women's volleyball team based in Kobe city, Hyogo, and Tosu city, Saga, Japan, announced her joining.

She was named Best Receiver at the 2010 World Championship. [12]

Logan earned the Best Server award and the gold medal at the 2011 NORCECA Championship, held in Caguas, Puerto Rico. [13]

Tom joined the Indonesian club Jakarta Pertamina Energi for the 2016 season, [14] taking them to the championship playoff. [15] The New Zealander club Harbour Raiders announced that Tom would play with them [16] and she help them win the local league championship. [17] [18] She then joined the Israeli club Maccabi XT Haifa for the 2017/18 season. [18] [19]

Web presence

In 2010, Tom began working with the instructional volleyball website Volleyball 1on1 where she appears as an online instructor showcasing her coaching abilities through interactive videos. [20]

Coaching

In May 2021, Tom was appointed as the head coach of the Israel women's national volleyball team. [21]

Awards

Individuals

College

  • Four time First Team AVCA All-American (1999–2002)
  • Four time First Team All-Pac-10 (1999-02)
  • Four time First Team AVCA All-Pacific Region (1999-02)
  • Three time NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team (1999, 2001–02)
  • Two time AVCA National Player of the Year (2001–02)
  • Two time Honda Award winner for volleyball (2001–02) [22]
  • Two time Pac-10 Player of the Year (2001–02)
  • 2002 NCAA Stanford Regional Most Outstanding Player
  • 2002 Pac-10 All-Academic Honorable Mention
  • 2002 Pac-10 Player of the Week (11/25)
  • 2002 AVCA National Player of the Week (11/25)
  • 2002 NACWAA/State Farm Classic MVP
  • 2001 NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player
  • 2001 NCAA Stanford Regional Most Outstanding Player
  • 2001 AVCA National Player of the Week (11/12)
  • 2001 Jefferson Cup MVP
  • 2001 Verizon/Texas A&M All-Tournament Team
  • 2001 Asics/Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year
  • 1999 AVCA National Freshman of the Year
  • 1999 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year
  • 1999 Asics/Volleyball Magazine Freshman of the Year
  • 1999 Pacific Regional All-Tournament Team

Clubs

Other awards

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Awards
Preceded by Most Valuable Player of
FIVB World Grand Prix
2004 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Best Server of
FIVB World Grand Prix
2004 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Best Scorer of
FIVB World Grand Prix
2004 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Best Scorer of
Olympic Games
Beijing 2008 		Succeeded by
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