Jose Loiola

Personal Data:

Jose Loiola:        [LOY-O-LA]
Full Name:          Jose Geraldo Loiola, Jr.
Nickname:           "Loiola"
Birthdate:          March 28, 1970
Hometown:           Copacabana Beach, Brazil
Training Site:      Manhattan Beach, Calif.
Height:             6'4"
Years Pro:          6
College:            N/A
1997 Prize Money:   $318,433  #1
1996 Prize Money:   $297,350
1995 Prize Money:   $238,623
1994 Prize Money:   $114,896 
Career Prize Money: $799,457   (as of 8-19-96)
Career Open Wins:   12

Beach:

$1,117,901  Career Beach Earning total (as of 9-1-97)
Compiled 25 Career Open Wins prior to start of 1998 Season.

1998 (PARTIAL)
     - Won five tournaments with Kent Steffes 
     - Won two tournaments with Emmanuel Rego
     - Won FIVB Austria Open with Emmanuel Rego ($16,000 each)

1997 - Won 12 tournaments with partner Kent Steffes.
     - Won the 1997 Miller Lite King of the Beach Invitational.
     - $318,433 Prize Money 

1996 - Compiled 7 Open wins (with Adam Johnson)
     - 6 second place finishes 
     - 1 third place finish
     - 2 fourth place finishes
     - Second at King of the Beach, making it three years in a row
     - Voted AVP Best Offensive Player (second year in a row)
     - $297,350 earnings 

1995 - Compiled 5 Open wins (one with Bacil, four with Johnson) 
     - won the 1995 Evain Indoor in Washington, D.C. with Eduardo Bacil,
        marking the first international team to win an AVP event 
        (first career victory)
     - Won the 1995 Manhattan Beach Open and Hermosa Beach with Adam Johnson
     - Voted AVP Best Offensive Player
     - Placed second at King of the Beach, making it two years in a row 
     - $238,623 earnings

1994 - second place at the Santa Cruz and Hermosa Beach events (with
       Eduardo Bacil)
     - third place at the Fort Myers Beach, Grand Haven, Manhattan
       Beach, Puerto Rico, and San Diego events (with Bacil)
     - second place at the King of the Beach tournament
     - $225,960 earnings 

1993 - second place finish at the Fort Worth Open (with Bacil); first
       time an international team has played in an AVP final.
     - second place finishes at Grand Haven and the Tournament of
       Champions (with Bacil)
     - second place at the King of the Beach tournament
     - named AVP Rookie of the Year (first international recipient)

Other Beach Highlights:

- Named the AVP "Rookie of the Year" in 1993; first international
  recipient of the award

- First competed in the 1993 Fort Myers Beach Open (with Bacil) as
  a wild card entry.

- Named the South American Beach Volleyball Champion in 1993

- Second place at the 1993 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships
  in Brazil (with Bacil)

- Fourth place at the 1992 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Series in Italy

- Named the Brazilian Junior National Champion in 1986.

Personal:

- Native of Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

- First international player to receive the AVP "Rookie of the Year"
  award; voted on by the AVP membership.

- Possesses one of the highest vertical jumps on the AVP tour.

- Posted the highest international finish at the 1993 and 1994 King
  of the Beach Invitational.

- Competed for the first time in the Great Western Bank Team Cup
  Volleyball, played for Team Volleyball Monthly.

- Enjoys soccer, surfing, jiu-jitsu.