Gavin Schmitt | |
Fullname: | Gavin Charles Schmitt |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Birth Date: | January 27, 1986 |
Birth Place: | Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada |
Hometown: | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
Height: | 2.08 m |
College: | University of Saskatchewan Red Deer College |
Position: | Opposite |
Years: | 2004–2005 2006–2007 2007–2008 2008–2009 2009–2012 2012–2013 2013–2015 2015–2016 2016–2017 2017–2018 2018–2019 2019–2020 2020 |
Teams: | Saskatchewan Huskies Red Deer College Ethnikos Alexandroupolis Arago de Sète Daejeon Samsung Bluefangs Iskra Odintsovo Arkas Izmir Funvic Taubaté Asseco Resovia Rzeszów Toray Arrows Olympiacos Piraeus Suwon KEPCO Vixtorm |
Nationalyears: | 2007–2018 |
Gavin Charles Schmitt (born 27 January 1986) is a former Canadian volleyball player, who started playing volleyball in Saskatoon for the Saskatchewan Huskies volleyball club and eventually went on to win the silver medal with the Canada men's national volleyball 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.[1]