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Born | Torhout, Belgium | 12 March 2001||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Spike | 345 cm (136 in) | ||||||||||||||
Block | 325 cm (128 in) | ||||||||||||||
College / University | Ghent University | ||||||||||||||
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Position | Outside hitter | ||||||||||||||
Current club | Allianz Milano | ||||||||||||||
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Seppe Rotty (born 12 March 2001) is a Belgian professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Allianz Milano and the Belgium national team. [1]
As a child, Rotty used to practise tennis and athletics at Houtland Torhout, before accidentally joining the volleyball team of Rembert Torhout. [2] [3] [4]
After graduating from Topsportschool Vilvoorde in 2019, he signed his first professional contract with Volley Menen. [2] As a player of that club, he was named the 2022 Player of the Year. [5]
For the 2022–23 season, he signed a contract with Knack Roeselare, the Belgian champions of that time. [6] In 2024, he was once again named the Player of the Year. [7]
He made his debut in the senior national team in 2021. [8]
Since 2019, he has been studying industrial civil engineering at Ghent University. [2] [3]