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My Take
Courtney Thompson is exactly the kind of athlete I admire most. At 173 cm she was undersized for elite volleyball, yet she ran the United States national team as a setter and set an NCAA career assists-per-game record while winning a 2005 national title at Washington. That tells me she won with vision and craft rather than physical dominance, the position's true intelligence on full display. The 2006 Honda Sports Award only confirms it. What I respect just as much is her returning to earn an MBA at Foster, the same composure she showed orchestrating a court applied to building her own life off it.
Overview
Courtney Lynn Thompson (born November 4, 1984) is an American former professional volleyball player who played as a setter for the United States women's national volleyball team. She won the 2005 national championship while playing for the University of Washington, and she set an NCAA record in career assists per game.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Courtney Thompson
- Name (Japanese)
- コートニー・トンプソン
- Reading
- こーとにー・とんぷそん
- Born
- November 4, 1984 (age 41)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Rat
- Origin
- Bellevue, Washington, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 173 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- volleyball player / beach volleyball player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Kentlake High School
- University
- University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business
Awards & achievements
- 2006 Honda Sports Award for Volleyball
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Volleyball player — see all → · Beach volleyball player — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.