Paul Michael Lotman (born November 3, 1985) is an American former professional volleyball player. He was part of the U.S. national team, and a participant at the Olympic Games London 2012. The 2014 World League and the 2015 World Cup winner.

Personal life

Lotman was born in Lakewood, California. His parents are Kathleen and Albert Lotman (his father died in 2011). He has two older brothers, Mark and Steven, and an older sister Shelley. Lotman attended Los Alamitos High School (1999–2003). He graduated from California State University, Long Beach (better known as Long Beach State) in 2008 with a degree in sociology. In August 2011 he married Jasmine.[1] On December 20, 2016 his wife gave birth to their son Leif Albert Lotman.

Career

Club

In 2011 he joined the Polish club Asseco Resovia Rzeszów.[2] With the club from Rzeszów he won three titles of Polish Champion (2012, 2013, 2015), Polish SuperCup and the silver medal of CEV Cup 2012. On March 29, 2015 Asseco Resovia Rzeszów, including Lotman, achieved silver medal of the 2014–15 CEV Champions League.[3] He left Asseco Resovia in May 2015. In June 2015 he moved to German team Berlin Recycling Volleys.[4] In 2017 he moved to Indonesian volleyball club Jakarta BNI Taplus for 2017/2018 season.

National team

Lotman made his Olympic debut with the U.S. national team in 2012 Olympics in London.

Coaching

In 2019, Lotman began working as a volunteer assistant coach with the UC San Diego Tritons men's volleyball team.

Honors

Club

Individual awards

  • 2016: CEV Cup – Most valuable player

References

  1. ^ Lotman’s Wedding Pics – volleywood.net – August 23, 2011
  2. ^ Paul Lotman kolejnym przyjmującym w Rzeszowie Archived April 4, 2014, at archive.today – volley24.pl – 2011-05-18
  3. ^ Three is the magic number for Russian armada from Tatarstan! – cev.eu – March 29, 2015
  4. ^ Paul Lotman siatkarzem Berlin Recycling Volleys – onet.pl – June 18, 2015
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lotman
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