Peter Bakare

Last updated

Peter Bakare (born 2 July 1989) is a British volleyball player. Born in London, England, he competed for Great Britain in the men's tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics. [1] [2]

Contents

Career

After playing basketball in college, Bakare was invited by his coach to play volleyball. After representing his college team, he was offered a professional contract in Holland with Landstede. Following his participation in the 2012 Olympic Games, he competed with Team Northumbria. [3]

Personal life

Bakare was raised in a single-parent family, relying on a local friary for food and other support. [4] He studied animation at Sheffield Hallam University and became involved in scriptwriting, working on TV show Skins. [5] He later worked in advertising and visited schools as part of the Sport for Schools programme. [6]

His cousin Dami also played on the 2012 Olympic team. [7]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Misty May-Treanor</span> American beach volleyball player (born 1977)

Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor is an American retired professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and as of August 2012, was the most successful female beach volleyball player having won 112 tournaments in domestic and international competition.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Karch Kiraly</span> American volleyball player and coach

Charles Frederick "Karch" Kiraly is an American volleyball player, coach, and broadcast announcer. He was a central part of the U.S National Team that won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. He went on to win the gold medal again at the 1996 Olympic Games, the first Olympic competition to feature beach volleyball. He is the only player to have won Olympic medals of any color in both the indoor and beach volleyball categories. He played college volleyball for the UCLA Bruins, where his teams won three national championships under head coach Al Scates. Kiraly is widely regarded as the greatest male volleyball player of all time.

Graveney School is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status in the Furzedown area of Tooting, southwest London, England. The school has a partially selective admissions policy. At the beginning of 2023, the school was assessed in an Ofsted inspection report as outstanding.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phil Dalhausser</span> American beach volleyball player

Philip Peter Dalhausser is an American former professional beach volleyball player, who played as a blocker. He and his former playing partner, Todd Rogers, were the 2007 AVP Tour and FIVB world champions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Al Scates</span> American volleyball player and coach (born 1939)

Allen Edward Scates is an American former volleyball player and coach who was head coach of the UCLA Bruins for 48 years. Scates is the winningest volleyball coach in the history of the NCAA, and the 19 NCAA titles the Bruins won during his tenure ties him for the most NCAA titles won by a coach in a single sport with Arkansas' John McDonnell. Scates' teams won collegiate volleyball championships in five different decades. In addition to coaching, Scates was a physical education instructor at Horace Mann and Hawthorne, two of the elementary schools in the Beverly Hills Unified School District.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nigeria men's national basketball team</span> Mens national basketball team representing Nigeria

The Nigeria men's national basketball team represents Nigeria in international basketball, and it is governed by the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Todd Rogers</span> American beach volleyball player

Todd Jonathan Rogers is an American professional beach volleyball player who is an Olympic and FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship gold medalist. He and his former partner, Phil Dalhausser, were the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 AVP Tour champions.

Joshua "Josh" Binstock, nicknamed Binner, is a male two-time Olympian beach volleyball player from Canada. He competed in the 2012 Olympics in London and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. He also competed for Canada in volleyball in Israel in the 2001 Maccabiah Games, the 2005 Maccabiah Games, the 2009 Maccabiah Games, the 2013 Maccabiah Games, and the 2017 Maccabiah Games. In 2014, he and his partner were Canadian national champions, his third national championship.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jody Gooding</span> British beach volleyball player

Jody Gooding is an ex-beach volleyball player for England and Great Britain who was the youngest-ever British champion.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">London Youth Games</span>

The London Youth Games is an annual multi-sport event held in London, England. The London Youth Games offer competitive opportunities for young people aged 7 to 18 across approximately 30 sports every year. The London Youth Games are contested between the 32 London boroughs and take place at venues across the capital nine months of the year.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Donald Suxho</span> Albanian-American volleyball player (born 1976)

Donald Suxho is an Albanian-American professional volleyball player and a player for the U.S. Olympic Team. As a setter, he participated in the 2004 Olympic games in Athens, Greece as well as the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Suxho and his family came to America in 1996 and lived in Natick, Massachusetts while searching for a college. He eventually chose to play for the University of Southern California and became one of the most well-known volleyball players to come out of USC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zara Dampney</span> British beach volleyball player (born 1986)

Zara Dampney is a British beach volleyball player, and former indoor volleyball player. She was chosen as one of the two players to take the home nation qualification spot at the 2012 Summer Olympics, with teammate Shauna Mullin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Travis Passier</span> Australian volleyball player

Travis Passier is an Australian volleyball player. He competed for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Passier is a 6’10" middle blocker for the Australia men's national volleyball team. His nicknames are T-rannosaurus Pas, Trang pak, and Pasinator, and he speaks Italian and English.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nathan French</span> British volleyball player

Nathan French is a British volleyball player. French was born in Chelmsford, Essex and he competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics. French was the youngest member of the men’s team and started playing the sport in school when he was 13. French has also played professionally in Spain, France, Germany and Israel.

Ben Pipes is a British volleyball player who plays as a setter. Born in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, he competed for Great Britain in the men's tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Oluwadamilola Bakare known as Dami Bakare is a British volleyball player. Born in Kaduna, Nigeria, he competed for Great Britain in the men's tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Daniel Hunter is a British volleyball player and coach. Born in Poole, Dorset, England, he competed for Great Britain in the men's tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aaron Russell</span> American volleyball player (born 1993)

Aaron Joseph Russell is an American professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie and the U.S. national team. He was a bronze medalist at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, Paris 2024 and the 2018 World Championship.

Dami may refer to the following people

Bákàrè is a Nigerian male given name and surname predominantly used among Muslims, particularly within the Yoruba community. Derived from Arabic, "Abubakar or Abubakr", the nickname of the first Caliph of Islam. The 'Abu' part is dispensed with, and the 'bakar' part gets a terminal vowel according to Yoruba morphological patterns.

References

  1. ↑ "Peter Bakare". London 2012. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  2. ↑ Peter Bakare, Team GB.
  3. ↑ "Born motivator".
  4. ↑ "Born motivator".
  5. ↑ "Peter Bakare".
  6. ↑ "Olympic volleyball player visits Rush Green Primary School". 30 January 2020.
  7. ↑ "Dami Bakare".


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.