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Full name | Gavin Charles Schmitt | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Grande Prairie, Alberta |
January 27, 1986 |||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 102 kg (225 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 369 cm (145 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Block | 339 cm (133 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
College(s) |
University of Saskatchewan Red Deer College |
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Position | Opposite | |||||||||||||||||||||
Current club | Toray Arrows | |||||||||||||||||||||
Number | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Last updated: 26 April 2017 |
Gavin Charles Schmitt (born 27 January 1986) is a Canadian volleyball player, who started playing volleyball in Saskatoon for the HVC volleyball club, and eventually went on to win the silver medal with the men's national team at the 2013 NORCECA Volleyball Championship in Langley, Canada.
From 2009 to 2012, Schmitt played for the Daejeon Samsung Bluefangs in South Korea's V-League, where he led the team to three consecutive titles winning the MVP awards in the 2009–10 and 2011–12 seasons.
Schmitt led the national team in scoring in six of the seven matches he played for Canada at the 2014 World Championship in Poland, where Canada finished seventh for its best result ever in the championship that has been held 18 times since 1949.
In July 2016, he was named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team.