Name: James Stuck

Position: Middle blocker

Sport: Sitting Volleyball

Discipline(s): Sitting Volleyball

Height: 6-5

Birthplace: New Kensington, Pa.

Hometown: New Kensington, Pa.

High School: Valley High School

College: University of Central Oklahoma

Paralympic Experience

• 2016: Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (8th Place)

World Championship Experience

• 2018: World ParaVolley World Championships (8th Place)
• 2014: World ParaVolley World Championships (10th Place)
• 2010: World ParaVolley World Championships (10th Place)

Other Career Highlights

• 2019: Parapan American Games (Silver)
• 2018: ParaVolley Pan American Championships (6th Place)
• 2017: ParaVolley Pan American Championships (Silver)
• 2016: ParaVolley Intercontinental Cup (6th Place)
• 2015: Parapan American Games (Silver)
• 2012: Intercontinental Cup
• 2011: Parapan American Games (Silver)
• 2010: Parapan American Championship (Silver); WOWD World Cup
• 2009: Parapan American Championship (Gold)
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• MOST NOTABLE
• Was the starting setter during all six matches at the 2016 Intercontinental Cup
• Was named the USA Volleyball Male Sitting Athlete of the Year in 2012, 2013 and 2018
• Army Veteran who served in the 101st Airborne Division
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• DID YOU KNOW?
• Lost most of his right leg in Iraq in December 2005 when his Humvee struck a roadside bomb
• His Paralympic career began when he met an ambassador while recovering at the Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. in 2006. Began training with the team full-time in 2007
• Was a former stand-out in soccer at Valley High School in New Kensington, Pa.

Personal: Married to Kim (Proctor) Stuck... the couple has three sons... Appears in a poster in the movie "The International" starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts... Has coached girls' volleyball with the Lake Tapps Volleyball Club

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