Justin Lui
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| Nationality |  Canadian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 May 2000 Markham, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 318 cm (125 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Block | 303 cm (119 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| College / University | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Libero | |||||||||||||||||
| Current club | VK Dukla Liberec | |||||||||||||||||
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Justin Lui (born 8 May 2000) is a Canadian volleyball player. He is a member of the Canada men's national volleyball team and a participant in 2024 Summer Olympics.[1]
Career
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[edit]Lui competed for the Stanford University men's volleyball team while in university, from 2018 to 2023.[2] In 2020, he trained with the Volleyball Canada National Excellence Program in Gatineau.[3]
He signed for Finnish professional volleyball club Vantaa Ducks in 2023, playing with them for the 2023-2024 season.[4] In 2024, he signed for Czech club VK Dukla Liberec.[5]
National Team
[edit]Lui has competed for Canada at the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League during the 2022, 2023 and 2024 seasons.[1] In July 2024, Lui was named to Canada's 2024 Olympic team.[6][7]
Personal life
[edit]In 2020, Lui came out as gay by writing an email to his university volleyball team.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Justin Lui". olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
- ^ "#2 Justin Lui". gostanford.com. Archived from the original on 13 August 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ "National Excellence Program restarts in Gatineau". volleyball.ca. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ "Joukkue Kaudella 2023-2024". korsonveto.fi (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ "Volleyball transfers 2024/25: Czech Republic & Slovakia". volleytimes.com. Archived from the original on 13 August 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ "Captain Nick Hoag leads Canadian men's Olympic volleyball team into Paris". Toronto Star. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Press. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ Fenton, Caela (8 July 2024). "Team Canada men's volleyball team ready to smash it in Paris". Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ Killion, Ann (22 December 2020). "He came out to his team before Stanford cut his sport. Now he mourns a lost family". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, California, USA. Retrieved 14 July 2024.