Name: Micah Christenson
Position: Setter
Sport: Volleyball
Discipline(s): Volleyball
Height: 6-6
Weight: 190
DOB: 5/8/1993
Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii
Hometown: Honolulu, Hawaii
High School: Kamehameha High School (Honolulu, Hawaii)
College: University of Southern California ’15, Human Biology
Olympic Experience
  • Two-time Olympian (2016, 2020); one-time Olympic medalist (1 bronze)
  • Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, 10th
  • Olympic Games Rio 2016, bronze
World Championship Experience
  • Most recent: 2018 – bronze
  • Years of Participation: 2014, 2018
  • Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
  • Bronze – 2018
Personal: Full name is Micah Makanamaikalani Christenson...Makanamaikjalani means "Gift from Heaven."…Micah's parents gave him that name because his mother had to have surgery while she was pregnant and it was unknown if he would survive...Father, Robert, played basketball at the University of Hawaii-Hilo...Mother, Charlene, played volleyball at Hilo, where she won three national championships and was named a two-time All-American...Micah married Brooke Fournier in Hawaii shortly after the Rio Games...Fournier played beach volleyball for USC in 2013-14 after transferring from Arkansas' indoor team...Micah and Brooke are the parents of Ezekiel Kūpaʻa, born in 2018, and Quinn, born in 2020..Hobbies include bodysurfing, basketball and spending time with his family.