Birthday: 11/21/1971
Hometown: São Paulo
Sign: Scorpio – Height:5’6
Job: Volleyball Player, Model
Country of Origin: Brazil
Now if we could only get her to move that pesky volleyball out of the way…
Ana Paula Mancino is a professional volleyball player from Sao Paulo, Brazil. The past couple of years she’s left the volleyball behind for a full time modeling career and we can definitely see why. Thus far, she released her own calendar and has done some work for a couple of magazines.
Logan Maile Lei Tom (born May 25, 1981) is an American indoor volleyball and beach volleyball player. At age 19, Tom made her Olympic debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She also competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2008 Beijing Olympics. In Beijing, Tom helped Team USA win a silver medal and was named Best Scorer.
Tom was born in Napa, California to Kristine and Melvyn Tom. Her father was a former NFL football player. Though she grew up with her mom and brother in Salt Lake City, Utah, she spent her summers with her dad in Hawaii learning how to surf. In 2000, she became the youngest woman to ever be selected for the USA Olympic volleyball team at 19. Tom attended Highland High School, where she set the Utah state records for career kills (later broken when Utah moved to five game matches, still second all-time). Tom also competed in basketball and track and was an All-state selection in basketball. She placed third in the state in the javelin as a senior and graduated with a 4.00 GPA and ranked first in her class. Over the summer of 2003 she was selected as one of eight finalists for the Women’s Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year Award in the team category. In 2004, Tom posed in a bikini for an FHM magazine article on female Olympic athletes. She was ranked #91 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2005. She is of Chinese Hawaiian descent.
Olympic and international career: Tom appeared in the 2000 Sydney Olympics (4th place), 2004 Athens Olympics (5th place), and the 2008 Beijing Olympics (Silver Medal). Tom was named the “Best Scorer” of the 2008 Olympic games.
In 2004, Logan was named the Most Valuable Player of the World Grand Prix after leading all players in scoring with 224 points in 13 matches (179 kills, 24 blocks and 21 service aces) where she also garnered “Best Server” accolades.
In 2007, she was named one of three World Cup most valuable player nominees as she averaged 4.10 points per set at FIVB World Cup in her first international tournament with Team USA in nearly three years. She averaged 3.35 kills, 0.65 blocks, 1.95 digs and 0.10 aces per set at the World Cup while starting 40 of 41 sets.
On September 15, 2008, Hisamitsu Springs, a women’s volleyball team based in Kobe city, Hyogo and Tosu city, Saga, Japan, announced her joining.
She was named Best Receiver at the 2010 World Championship
Gabrielle Allyse Reece (born January 6, 1970) is an American professional volleyball player, sports announcer, fashion model and actress.
Volleyball career: After graduation, Reece played on professional volleyball tours for several years. That year, Reece’s 4-man team took first place at the first-ever Beach Volleyball World Championships staged at the UCLA Tennis Center, in her fifth season as a team captain in the 4-person Women’s Beach Volleyball League (WBVL), and fourth captaining Team Nike, which shared League Co-Championship.
For four consecutive years, Reece was the WBVL kills leader from 1993-1996. She was named the Offensive Player of the Year in 1994-95, and the League blocks leader in 1993. She also competed domestically in the 1999-2000 Olympic Challenge Series, the 1999-2000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, and other competitions.
Reece trained in golf for four years hoping to make it onto the LPGA but was unsuccessful. In 2009, she said, “… with young children, I simply didn’t have the time for such a demanding game”.
Full name: Tamsin Barnett
Gender: Female
Height: 6’4″ (193 cm)
Weight: 165 lbs (75 kg)
Born: March 10, 1980 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Affiliations: Ballarat Grammar School
Country: AUS Australia
Sport: Beach Volleyball, Volleyball
Francesca Piccinini (born January 10, 1979 in Massa) is a female volleyball player who has represented Italy three times (2000, 2004, and 2008) at the Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Women’s National Team that won the gold medal at the 2002 World Championship in Germany.
She made her debut for Italy on 1995-06-10 against the United States. She was inspired to become a professional volleyball player by the classic anime Attack No. 1 which in Italy was shown on TV in the 1980s under the title ‘Mimi e la nazionale della pallavolo’.
In 2004 she appeared naked in a calendar published by the Italian magazine Men’s Health
Francesca Piccinini Magazine Pictures
Francesca Piccinini TV Show 2009 Video