Lauren Gibbemeyer
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| Born | September 8, 1988 Rhode Island, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Middle Blocker | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Current club |  Eczacıbaşı VitrA | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Lauren Gibbemeyer (born September 8, 1988) is an American indoor volleyball player. She was a member of the United States women's national volleyball team and plays as middle blocker.
Career
[edit]She played college women's volleyball at University of Minnesota from 2007 to 2010.[1]
Gibbemeyer was part of the USA national team that won the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix gold medal.[2]
Lauren Gibbemeyer's early career started with Northern Lights Volleyball Club. In these years she won the 2006 North American Junior Championship. From 2007 to 2010 she played for the University of Minnesota, taking part in the Austin 2009 semifinals against the University of Texas.[3] In 2011, after college she was asked to play for the national team for the first time. She won the bronze medal at the 16th Pan American Games, where she was awarded Best block.
In the 2011–12 season she began her professional career in the Japanese league with Toyota Auto Body Queens.
The following season she moved to Robursport Volley Pesaro in Italy.
She won the gold medal at the Pan American Cup and the North American Championship with the national team. She also won the silver medal at the Grand Champions Cup.
In the 2013–14 season she played for Lokomotiv Baku, the Azerbaijani Super league. In January 2014, in the second part of the season, she came back to play in the Italian Serie A1* for Imoco Volley Conegliano.
The following season she stayed in Italy, playing for Volleyball Casalmaggiore and winning the league title and the Italian Super Cup in 2015.
She participated in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.[4]
Achievements
[edit]- National team
Pan-Am Cup Mexico 2012- Pan-Am Cup Peru 2013
FIVB World Grand Prix Omaha 2015
2015 FIVB Women's World Cup
2013 FIVB Women's World Grand Champions Cup
- Clubs
References
[edit]- ^ "Lauren Gibbemeyer". April 25, 2012. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Lauren Gibbemeyer". Team USA. Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
- ^ "GSS Highlights Lauren Gibbemeyer - University of Minnesota Athletics". University of Minnesota Athletics. Archived from the original on July 29, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
- ^ "Player - Lauren Gibbemeyer - FIVB Volleyball Nations League 2018". www.volleyball.world. Archived from the original on July 29, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
External links
[edit]- Profile at FIVB
- Lauren Gibbemeyer at Team USA (archived)
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- American women's volleyball players
- Minnesota Golden Gophers women's volleyball players
- Middle blockers
- American expatriate volleyball players in Azerbaijan
- Sportspeople from Rhode Island
- American expatriate volleyball players in Italy
- Volleyball players at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in volleyball
- 21st-century American sportswomen