Kent Steffes is an American beach volleyball

Beach volleyball

Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....

 player. He was a gold medalist in the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

 along with Karch Kiraly

Karch Kiraly

Charles Frederick "Karch" Kiraly , is an American volleyball player who is the only person to have won Olympic gold medals in both the indoor and beach versions of the sport.-High school career:...

. A graduate of Palisades High School in Pacific Palsiades, CA, he latter attended Stanford, and transferred to UCLA graduating with a degree in Economics. In 2000 he enrolled in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford where he graduated in 2002.

Kent has a wife, Michelle Steffes, of Mount Vernon, Virginia, and two children (Katharine Jackson Steffes, born in 2004, and Conrad William Steffes, born in 2006).

Awards and honors

• AVP Best Up-and-Coming Player 1989
• AVP Comeback Player of the Year 1996
• AVP Most Valuable Player 1996
• AVP Special Achievement 1996
• Greatest Beach Volleyball player in the 1990s
• March 2010 Employee of the Month
• Youngest number one player in the history of AVP (21)
• Record most wins in a season (19)
• Record most consecutive wins (13) (record shared with Kiraly, Menges and Lee)
• "Most dominant player of the 1990s"
• Highest winning percentage in history of the sport (.482)

External links

• Player profile at the Beach Volleyball Database
  Beach Volleyball Database
  The Beach Volleyball Database is an online website that holds extensive information about international beach volleyball players, tournaments and history. News are frequently updated, and the site has results for continental and international tournaments...
  
  
• kentsteffes.com