Логан Том: Путь американской волейбольной легенды.

American volleyball player

Logan Maile Lei Tom (born May 25, 1981) is an American former indoor volleyball and beach volleyball player, and is the current head coach of the Israel women's national volleyball team. She is a four time Olympian at the outside hitter position. At age 19, Logan became the youngest woman ever to be selected for an American Olympic volleyball team when she competed at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. She is a skilled all around player who brings stability to the American serve receive and defense, while also providing the team with a solid attack and block at the net. She had been a huge part of the national team from 2000 to 2012. At the 2008 Olympics, Tom helped Team USA win a silver medal and was named Best Scorer, she won another silver medal at the 2012 Olympics with the national team. She was also awarded the Most Valuable Player of the 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix. In October 2021, she was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame, along with Clay Stanley and Todd Rogers.

Logan Tom was born in Napa, California to Kristine and Melvyn Tom. Her father was a defensive end for nine years in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chicago Bears. Though she grew up with her mother and older brother Landon She is of Chinese Hawaiian descent. Tom also competed in basketball and track and was an All state selection in basketball. She placed third in the state in the javelin as a senior and graduated with a 4.00 GPA and ranked first in her class. Tom also earned the Gatorade Player of the Year awards for volleyball in 1999. In 2000, she became the youngest woman to ever be selected for the USA Olympic volleyball team at 19. and one year later was ranked 91st of the magazine's 100 sexiest women list.

Tom attended Stanford University from 1999 to 2002 but did not graduate with her class. She left Stanford 50 units shy of completing her major in International Relations in December 2002, her last term of collegiate athletic eligibility. She officially graduated from Stanford in the summer of 2014. In October 2013, Tom was inducted into the Stanford University Athletics Hall of Fame.

Tom was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) and Pac 10 National Freshman of the Year and became only the fourth volleyball player in NCAA history to receive AVCA First Team All America honors as a true freshman. She led the Cardinal and ranked second in the Pac 10 in both kills (4.63 kpg) and service aces (0.45 sapg) and ranked second on the team in digs (2.73 dpg). She finished with a total of 472 kills, while also adding a .320 attack percentage (#8 Pac 10) and a 0.94 block per game average. She was named the NCAA Final Four All Tournament Team after having 29 kills in the NCAA semifinal match against defending national champion Long Beach State. Her squad finished as NCAA runners up to Penn State.

Tom missed a month and a half of the season while playing on the U. S. national volleyball team in the 2000 Olympics. Tom is the first woman in the history of Stanford athletics to appear in the Olympics and then return to compete for Stanford. She was named an AVCA First Team All American. For the year, she averaged 5.86 kills, 3.20 digs, 0.41 service aces and 0.86 blocks per game and hit .350 for the season. She notched double figures in kills in 16 consecutive matches.

Tom was named the AVCA National Player of the Year, in addition to being named the Honda Award winner for volleyball, the Pac 10 Player of the Year and her third consecutive First Team All America honor. She averaged 5.09 kills, 0.54 service aces, 3.49 digs and 0.90 blocks per game and played in 122 games (35 matches). She recorded 10 or more kills in 50 of 51 matches, dating back to the 2000 season and notched a double double in 25 matches. She was named the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship Most Outstanding Player after leading her team to the 2001 National Championship over top ranked and previously undefeated Long Beach State as she had 25 kills, 12 digs and five blocks against the 49'ers after having 22 kills and five blocks against Nebraska in the NCAA semifinal. In 2002, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's top female collegiate volleyball player.

She was named the AVCA National Player of the Year for the second consecutive year and become the third player in NCAA history to be named a First Team All American for four consecutive years. She was the Honda Award winner for volleyball for the second year in a row and was named the Pac 10 Player of the Year for the second consecutive year. She averaged 4.89 kills, 0.34 service aces, 3.28 digs, 0.82 blocks and 5.81 points per game and finished off her career with 1,939 career kills and is the all time leader at Stanford surpassing Kristin Klein (1,909) and is third all time in the Pac 10. Her 171 career service aces ranks second on in Stanford history and third in the league She averaged 5.02 kills per game for her career which ranks second all time in the conference record books. She was named to the NCAA Final Four All Tournament Team for the third time in her four years at Stanford, as she had 16 kills, 13 digs, four aces and four blocks in Stanford's losing effort to USC in the National Championship match. In 2003, she repeated as the winner of the Honda Sports Award, given to the nation's top female collegiate volleyball player. In 2007, she was named one of three FIVB World Cup most valuable player nominees as she averaged 4.10 points per set at the World Cup in her first international tournament with Team USA in nearly three years. She averaged 3.35 kills, 0.65 blocks, 1.95 digs and 0.10 aces per set at the World Cup while starting 40 of 41 sets. On September 15, 2008, Hisamitsu Springs, a women's volleyball team based in Kobe city, Hyogo, and Tosu city, Saga, Japan, announced her joining. She was named Best Receiver at the 2010 World Championship. Logan earned the Best Server award and the gold medal at the 2011 NORCECA Championship, held in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Tom joined the Indonesian club Jakarta Pertamina Energi for the 2016 season, taking them to the championship playoff. The New Zealander club Harbour Raiders announced that Tom would play with them and she help them win the local league championship. She then joined the Israeli club Maccabi XT Haifa for the 2017/18 season.

In 2010, Tom began working with the instructional volleyball website Volleyball 1on1 where she appears as an online instructor showcasing her coaching abilities through interactive videos.

In May 2021, Tom was appointed as the head coach of the Israel women's national volleyball team.