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| Nationality |  Canadian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | (2000-05-08) 8 May 2000 (age 24) 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.
Career
Club
Lui competed for the Stanford University men's volleyball team while in university, from 2018 to 2023. In 2020, he trained with the Volleyball Canada National Excellence Program in Gatineau.
He signed for Finnish professional volleyball club Vantaa Ducks in 2023, playing with them for the 2023-2024 season. In 2024, he signed for Czech club VK Dukla Liberec.
National Team
Lui has competed for Canada at the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League during the 2022, 2023 and 2024 seasons. In July 2024, Lui was named to Canada's 2024 Olympic team.
Personal life
In 2020, Lui came out as gay by writing an email to his university volleyball team.
References
- ^ "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.