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- Karch Kiraly (ker-EYE)
- was the best volleyball
- player in the world in the
- middle 1980ΓÇÖs, and heΓÇÖs
- still going strong. Karch is
- the best volleyball player ever to come out of
- the United States. He led the U.S. team to
- gold medals in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics.
- He and his partner, Kent Steffes, then
- became stars of the professional two-man
- beach-volleyball circuit, which became
- popular in the 1990ΓÇÖs. It will be a medal sport
- at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta,
- Georgia.
-
- KarchΓÇÖs father had been an excellent volley-
- ball player, and he pushed his son to
- excel at volleyball and in the classroom.
- Karch led Santa Barbara High School