Randy Stoklos

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Randy Stoklos (born December 13, 1960) is the first player to earn $1,000,000 in beach volleyball. He won one U.S. championship and two World championships with Sinjin Smith. He is a four-time winner of the Manhattan Beach Open.

Stoklos has 122 career wins (which ranks Stoklos third of all-time), amassed almost two million dollars in prize money and received numerous MVP and Best Setter awards. Stoklos played college volleyball at UCLA. In 1992, he reflected on his father's unwillingness to allow him to play volleyball at the beach. His father was a Pole who survived a German concentration camp noted in the LA Times as a "harsh old-country type" who was afraid his son would grow up to be lazy if he spent too much time at the beach.^[1]

He was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame on October 23, 2008.

External links

Profile at volleyball.org

Sporting positions
Preceded by Inaugural	Men's FIVB Beach Volley World Tour Winner alongside Sinjin Smith 1989 – 1992	Succeeded by Roberto Lopes and Franco Neto (BRA)

References

↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-07/sports/sp-2449_1_randy-stoklos

He now owns a beach volleyball camp for kids (ages7-15) in Santa Monica, Califorinia.

Persondata
Name	Stoklos, Randy
Alternative names	Stokey
Short description	American beach volleyball player
Date of birth	December 13, 1960
Place of birth	Santa Monica, California
Date of death
Place of death

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