Who wore number 2 in volleyball?

Whether we’re talking about jersey numbers or using stats in sports arguments, numbers have and will always have a place in sports in a variety of different ways. Players are recognized by their numbers and they are part of a player’s legacy.

Misty May-Treanor

Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor is a retired American professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and one of the most successful female beach volleyball players with 112 individual championship wins in domestic and international competition.

May-Treanor and teammate Kerri Walsh Jennings were gold medalists in beach volleyball at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. They also won the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007. They have been called “the greatest beach volleyball team of all time”.

May-Treanor retired from competitive play on August 8, 2012, after she and Walsh Jennings won gold in the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2016.

Randy Stoklos

Randy Stoklos is a retired professional beach volleyball player. He is the first player to earn $1,000,000 playing competitive beach volleyball. He won one U.S. championship and Five World championships with Sinjin Smith. He is a four-time winner of the Manhattan Beach Open.

Stoklos played college volleyball at UCLA. He left UCLA early to focus on beach volleyball. He won his first Manhattan Open teaming with Jim Menges in 1981. Stoklos has 123 career wins, amassed almost two million dollars in prize money and received numerous MVP and Best Setter awards. 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 work 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.

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

The pair of Stoklos and Sinjin Smith was featured in the video game Kings of the Beach released in 1988 for multiple computer platforms by Electronic Arts and in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Konami, and also appeared in the 1990 film Side Out as the nemesis team of Rollo Vincent (Stoklos) and Billy Cross (Smith).

Katsutoshi Nekoda

Katsutoshi Nekoda was a Japanese volleyball player.

He was the member of the Japanese Men’s National Volleyball team as a setter. He is the man who invented the ceiling serve, a serve where the ball is hit up towards the ceiling with all the lights to make it difficult to judge the landing. He retired in 1980, and died of stomach cancer in 1983.

Jenia Grebennikov

Jenia Grebennikov is a French volleyball player of Russian descent, known as a member of the France men’s national volleyball team and Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg. He’s a 2015 European Champion and gold medalist of the World League (2015, 2017).

Marcelo Elgarten

Marcelo Elgarten, commonly known as Marcelinho, is a former Brazilian volleyball player. He won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Elgarten was born in Rio de Janeiro, and is Jewish.