Kent Douglas Greves is a former professional and Olympian

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

 volleyball setter

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 from Canada

Canada

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The 190 cm, 90 kg Greves first played pro for club Lennik

Lennik

Lennik is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the towns of Sint-Kwintens-Lennik, Sint-Martens-Lennik, and Gaasbeek. On January 1, 2006, Lennik had a total population of 8,694...

 in Belgium

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 in 1992-3. He played the following season for Montpellier UC in France. He returned to Belgium to play for Noliko Maaseik

Noliko Maaseik

Noliko Maaseik is a Belgian volleyball club from the city Maaseik.Mavoc Maaseik, the first name of the club, was founded in 1960 and grew out of the school "Het Heilig Kruis College Maaseik"....

 in 1995-6 and 1996-7 and then played again in France for 1997-8 with Paris SG-Asnières.

Greves's next and last pro club, Paris Volley

Paris Volley

Paris Volley is a professional Volleyball team based in Paris. It plays in Pro A.-Palmarès:*CEV Champions League ** Winner : 2001*CEV Top Teams Cup ** Winner : 2000*CEV SuperCup: ** Winner : 2000,*Pro A ...

, he remained with for five seasons, 1998-9 through 2002-3, and with them won both the CEV Cup Winner's Cup. The club was coached by compatriot Glen Hoag and featured fellow Canadian players Paul Duerden

Paul Duerden

Paul Duerden is a volleyball player from Canada, who competed for the Canadian Men's Senior National Team from 1992 to 2006....

, Jason Haldane, and Sabastian Rouette.

A resident of Calgary

Calgary

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 and assistant coach of the University of Calgary

University of Calgary

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, Greves played for Canada's last men's team to qualify for the Olympic games, the 1992

Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

The Basketball games of the 1992 Summer Olympics were played at the Pavelló Olímpic de Badalona. 12 men's teams and 8 women's teams participated in the tournament....

 squad.

Greves played college volleyball with Mount Royal College

Mount Royal College

Mount Royal University is a public university in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1910 as a primary and secondary school, Mount Royal became a post-secondary institution in 1931 as Mount Royal College offering transfer courses to the University of Alberta and later to the University of Calgary...

 and was named a Canadian small colleges All-Canadian in 1987-8.

Sources

• French Wikipedia article page for Greves
• Canadian Olympic Committee website
• www.ccaa.ca
• sports-reference