Tom Sorenson is an American Volleyball Olympian, NCAA champion and college and club coach. From multiple-time All-American awards at Pepperdine, to winning a chip in 1992, to a slew of medals with the US national team, this hall of famer lived, breathed and exhaled the sport at the elite level with a heightened level of volleyball prosperity. He was an assistant coach for a long stint at Ottawa University for both the men's and women's program and is now coaching club in Chicago.
Tune in, as we chat up his secret to getting back in shape, the defining moment he told himself he could do this for a living, East vs West in and out of college, "Team Cup Volleyball" rules, the "boom" period of talented college players in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, how the 2008 Olympics missed the bigger story, where volleyball is headed, what coach Marv Dunphy means to him, fan questions, the difference in how men's and women's volleyball succeeds, how emotional investment in each other can work on the court, the challenge of 'generational mental toughness,' the challenge of lefties playing middle blocker, building programs from the ground up, and MORE!
