Volleyball - SPERAW John

He won two national championships as a player of the University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] in the United States of America. (teamusa.org, 2014)

He coached the US men's national team to third-place finishes at the 2018 World Championship in Italy and Bulgaria and the 2019 World Cup in Japan. (uclabruins.com, 29 Jan 2021)

He was head coach of the US men's team won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (uclabruins.com, 29 Jan 2021)

In 2015 he guided the US men's national team to gold at the World Cup in Japan and a third-place finish in the World League. (uclabruins.com, 09 May 2015; teamusa.org, 23 Sep 2015)

In 2014 he was the head coach of the US men's national team that won the World League. (fivb.org, 18 Dec 2014)

He won a gold medal as an assistant coach of the US national men's team at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, and silver in the 2012 World League in Bulgaria. (teamusa.org, 2014)

In 2004 he won a silver medal as the head coach of the US national junior men's team at the 2004 NORCECA Men's Junior Continental Championship in Canada. (teamusa.org, 2014)

He was the first person to win a National Collegiate Athletics Association [NCAA] volleyball title as a coach, assistant coach and player. He won NCAA national titles in 2007, 2009 and 2012 as head coach of the University of California, Irvine's men's team. (uclabruins.com, 09 May 2015)

In 2018 he was inducted into the Southern California Indoor Volleyball Association Hall of Fame in the United States of America. (uclabruins.com, 29 Jan 2021)

He was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association [AVCA] Coach of the Year in 2016, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation [MPSF] Coach of the Year in 2016 and Volleyball Magazine Coach of the Year in 2016 and 2018. (uclabruins.com, 29 Jan 2021)

He received a Pillar Award at the 2008 Ethics in America Awards. The award recognises outstanding achievement in ethical leadership. (teamusa.org, 2014)

In 2011 he was given the US Olympic Achievement Award, an honour that recognises the colleges and universities whose coaches and student-athletes won Olympic medals in the 2004 or 2008 Olympic Games. (teamusa.org, 2014)

2013

Since 2012 he has served as the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] volleyball team in the United States of America.

Speraw was as an assistant coach for the US boys' Youth National Team in 1998 and 2001, the 1997 and 1999 World University Games teams and the 1999 and 2007 Pan American Games teams. He was head coach of the US national junior men's team in 2004-05. He was an assistant coach of the US national men's team from 2007-08, and again in 2012. In 2012 he filled in as head coach for four World League pool play matches. Speraw has balanced his time with the national team system with coaching at the collegiate level in the United States of America. From 2002-12 he was the head coach of the University of California, Irvine, men's volleyball team. He left that post to take the head coaching role at the University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] in 2012.