Who wore number 15 in volleyball?

Jersey numbers aren’t quite important when we talk about the impact that the person has on the floor or the position they play, and it’s nothing more than a mere symbol to represent them and distinguish them from their teammates. Nonetheless, those jersey numbers are also one of the most important things in player’s minds when they get to a new place, wanting to carry their former number to someday find their shirt hanging high on the team’s facilities rafters.

Karch Kiraly

Charles Frederick “Karch” Kiraly is an American volleyball player, coach and broadcast announcer. In the 1980s he was a central part of the U.S National Team that won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. He went on to win the gold medal again at the 1996 Olympic Games, the first Olympic competition to feature beach volleyball. He is the first player (man or woman) to have won Olympic medals of any color in both the indoor and beach volleyball categories. He played college volleyball for the UCLA Bruins, where his teams won three national championships under head coach Al Scates.

Kiraly is also known as the head coach of the United States women’s national volleyball team leading them to their first-ever gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and thereby completing the “triple crown” of coaching an Olympic gold medal winning team as well as personally winning gold medals in both indoor and beach volleyball.

Logan Tom

Logan Maile Lei Tom is an American indoor volleyball, beach volleyball player, also known as the head coach of the Israel women’s national volleyball team. She is a multiple-time Olympian at the outside hitter position. At age 19, Logan became one of the youngest women ever to be selected for an American Olympic volleyball team when she competed at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. She is a skilled all-around player who brings stability to the American serve receive and defense, while also providing the team with a solid attack and block at the net. She had been a huge part of the national team from 2000 to 2012. At the 2008 Olympics, Tom helped Team USA win a silver medal and was named Best Scorer, she won another silver medal at the 2012 Olympics with the national team. She was also awarded the Most Valuable Player of the 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix.

In October 2021, she was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame, along with Clay Stanley and Todd Rogers.

Kimberly Hill

Kimberly Hill is an American volleyball player known for playing with Imoco Volley and is a former member of the United States women’s national volleyball team. Hill won gold with the national team at the 2014 World Championship, the Rimini Volleyball Nations League, and the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, and bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Hill graduated from Portland Christian High School in 2008. She played four years of indoor volleyball (2008-11) for Pepperdine University and two years of beach volleyball (2012-13).

Hill was the first college volleyball player to earn AVCA All-American first team honors in both indoor and beach. She received the accolades in 2011 with the indoor squad, and in 2012 and 2013 on the beach. Hill was also the 2011 West Coast Conference Player of the Year and the WCC’s Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She was a member of the inaugural AVCA national champions in the sport of beach volleyball in 2012.

Hill won a gold medal at the 2014 World Championship when the USA national team defeated China 3–1. She was also selected tournament’s Most Valuable Player and Second Best Outside Spiker. Hill won the 2016 World Grand Prix Best Outside Hitter individual award and the silver medal.

She won the 2016–17 CEV Champions League gold medal with VakıfBank Istanbul when her team defeated the Italian Imoco Volley Conegliano 3–0 and she was also awarded Best Outside Spiker. She was selected to play the Italian League All-Star game in 2017.

On June 7, 2021, US National Team head coach Karch Kiraly announced she would be part of the 12-player Olympic roster for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Hill saw action as a serving specialist, and won the gold medal with her team. Shortly after the Olympic Games concluded, she officially announced her retirement from the US National Team.

Mateusz Mika

Mateusz Włodzimierz Mika is a Polish volleyball player, known as a member of the Poland men’s national volleyball team, participant at the Olympic Games (Rio 2016), 2014 World Champion, Polish Champion (2012). At the professional club level, he chose to play for Trefl Gdańsk.

In 2012 Mika joined LOTOS Trefl Gdańsk. In the season 2013/2014 he was playing for the French club – Montpellier UC. On 12 June 2014 he came back to Gdańsk and signed a contract with LOTOS Trefl Gdańsk. On 19 April 2015 LOTOS Trefl Gdańsk, including Mika, won the Polish Cup. He was named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. During the same season he won a silver medal of the Polish Championship. In April 2015 he signed a new two–year contract with the club.

He debuted in the Poland men’s national volleyball team on 29 May 2010 in a friendly match with France. In 2011 he was a member of the Polish team coached by Andrea Anastasi at the 2011 CEV European Championship, where Poland managed to win a bronze medal. In 2014 he was appointed to the Polish team by a head coach of that time – Stéphane Antiga at the 2014 FIVB World League. Initially, he was supposed to be a reserve player during the matches in Brazil, but after a few victories (among others, the won match against Brazil on 30 May 2014) he has become a main favorite to play at the 2014 FIVB World Championship.

On 16 August 2014 he was appointed to the squad at the 2014 FIVB World Championship held in Poland. On 21 September 2014 the Polish team won the title of World Champion 2014. On 27 October 2014 he received a state award granted by the Polish President, Bronisław Komorowski – Gold Cross of Merit for outstanding sports achievements and promoting Poland in the world.

Pavel Kruglov

Pavel Kruglov is a Russian male volleyball player. He is known as part of the Russia men’s national volleyball team. On club level he chose to play for VC Lokomotiv Novosibirsk.

Luciano De Cecco

Luciano De Cecco is an Argentine volleyball player, known as a member of the Argentina men’s national volleyball team and Italian club Cucine Lube Civitanova. He is a bronze medalist of the Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020), silver medalist of the South American Championship (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013) and gold medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games, 2018 Italian Champion.

In May 2014, he signed a 3-year contract with Sir Safety Perugia. From the season 2020-2021 he was no longer a player of Sir Safety Perugia as he signed with Cucine Lube Civitanova.

He was first appointed to Argentine national team in 2006 before the World League, but he did not play in any match. He began his participation during the World Championship where Argentina took 13th place. His national team won silvers medals at South American Championship in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 because four losses to Brazil in the finals. In 2009 and 2011 he was awarded Best Setter of South American Championship. In 2011, he achieved a title of the Best Setter of the World League. On December 4, 2011 he was Best Setter of World Cup. In 2015, Luciano won the gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.

Tatiana Kosheleva

Tatiana Sergeyevna Kosheleva is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the Russia women’s national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 2010 World Championship, the 2013 European Championship and the 2015 European Championship.

At club level, she played for Dinamo Moscow, Zarechie Odintsovo, Dinamo Kazan and Dinamo Krasnodar before joining Eczacıbaşı VitrA in 2016.

Kosheleva led Dinamo Krasnodar with 37 points in the final match to win the 2014–15 CEV Cup gold medal and the Most Valuable Player award. She scored 245 points leading all scorers in the six 2014/15 European Cups. Her team earned a wild card from the FIVB to play the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship, the club reached the final of the tournament and eventually lost the Turkish side Eczacibasi VitrA. She was awarded Best Outside Spiker.

As a member of the Russia women’s national volleyball team, she participated in many competitions including the 2010 Montreux Volley Masters, the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix (in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), the European Championships (in 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015), the World Championships (in 2010, 2014), the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup in Japan, and the Olympic Games of London 2012 and Rio 2016.

She won the Best Spiker award of the 2010 World Championship. Besides the gold medal won at the 2013 European Championship, she was awarded the Most Valuable Player of the event. Two years later at the 2015 European Championship, she got one better by winning the championship, the Most Valuable Player award and the Best Outside Spiker award.

Ana Carolina Silva

Ana Carolina da Silva is a Brazilian indoor volleyball player. She is also known as a member of the Brazil women’s national volleyball team.

Da Silva won the silver medal and the Best Middle Blocker award at the 2013 Club World Championship playing with Unilever Vôlei. Da Silva played with her national team, winning the bronze at the 2014 World Championship when her team defeated Italy 3-2 in the bronze medal match.

During the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship, da Silva played with the Brazilian club Rexona Ades Rio and her team lost the bronze medal match to the Swiss Voléro Zürich, Nonetheless, she won the tournament’s Best Blocker award along with the Croatian Maja Poljak. She averaged 1.07 stuff blocks per set, just behind Poljak who blocked 1.19.

She won the 2017 South American Championship Best Middle Blocker award. and later the 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup Best Middle Blocker award.