Liz Masakayan was born on December 31,1964 and is a Filipino-American former indoor and beach volleyball player, and current coach.
14 Facts About Liz Masakayan
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Liz Masakayan participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics with the United States women's national volleyball team, and as a beach volleyball player won a total of 47 tournaments in her career.
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Liz Masakayan was born in Quezon City on December 31,1964.
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Volleyball was the last organized sport Liz Masakayan tried out for in her first year at Santa Monica High School.
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Liz Masakayan played Little League baseball when she was ten, the first year it allowed girls to play due to Title IX.
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Liz Masakayan heard a lot of comments over four years from playing on a team full of boys but says, "I learned at an early age that if you just worked hard, had fun, and treated people nicely, that everything would fall into place, like winning".
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Liz Masakayan played soccer for seven years and ran track for four years.
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Liz Masakayan helped form the first girls' soccer team at Santa Monica High School.
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Liz Masakayan has been inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Liz Masakayan won bronze medals at the 1990 World Championships in Beijing, 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, and 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow.
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In 2001, she was the Santa Barbara champion, and in December captured the bronze medal at the FIVB season finale in Fortaleza, where Liz Masakayan announced her retirement from international competition.
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Liz Masakayan retired from domestic competition after playing four tournaments in 2005.
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Liz Masakayan was inducted in the AVCA Hall of Fame in December 2011.
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Liz Masakayan coached the beach volleyball team of Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh, who were ranked second in the AVP in 2007.