FACTOIDS
Full Name: Logan Maile Lei Tom
Nickname: Logan
Birthday: May 21, 1985
Height: 6’1”
Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah
Sports: Volleyball
PROFILE
Tom’s family heritage is hapa-Chinese-Hawaiian, even though she grew up primarily in Salt Lake City, Utah. "I love Hawaii. It's my favorite place, so laid-back. I love coming here and switching lifestyles.” Her father still lives there, and it’s where she has spent many a summer learning to paddle outrigger canoes and surf waves.
* Made her professional debut in January, 2003 for Brazilian pro league team MRV/Minas of the Brazil Superliga, after teams in four countries (Brazil, Italy, Puerto Rico and Spain) made offers to sign the world-class player
* Selected as a nominee for the 2003 Sportswoman of the Year Award by the Women’s Sports Foundation (won by swimmer Natalie Coughlin)
* Leading scorer for the U.S. national women's volleyball team, which won a silver medal at the 2002 World Championships in Germany
* Widely considered one of America’s top women’s volleyball players who possesses amazing power and grace
* Awarded 2001-02 AVCA National Player of the Year honors, finishing her Stanford career as the all-time leader with 1,939 career kills
* Played a near-perfect match to give the Stanford Cardinal its fifth championship NCAA championship in ‘01
* Continues to study towards her International Relations degree at Stanford
* Only high school player to compete for U.S. National Team, then at age 19, she started in the Olympics, helping the U.S. to fourth place.
* Was the youngest member of the 1996 U.S. Junior National Team (16 years old) but still led the team in blocks and kills
* Featured as a 1997 Old Spice Athlete of the Month in Sports Illustrated
* Has been featured on ESPN's "Scholastic Sports America"
* Her father, Melvyn, was an all-star athlete in Hawaii who went on to play football at San Jose State and the Philadelphia Eagles
