Jennifer Joines

Jennifer Tamas, formerly Joines, is the kind of athlete I gravitate toward. Standing 193 cm and helping Team USA to silver at the 2008 Beijing Games, she reached the rarefied air just below the absolute summit of her sport, and that takes a steadiness most of us never test. I find it telling that her name changed but her presence on the record did not. The Santa Clara roots, the high-school grounding, the sheer physical commitment of indoor volleyball at that level all add up to a competitor I deeply respect. She earned her place in this database the hard way.

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Name (English)

Jennifer Joines

Name (Japanese)

ジェニファー・タマス

Reading

じぇにふぁー・たます

Born

November 23, 1982 (age 43)

Origin

Santa Clara, California, United States

Height

193 cm

Occupation

volleyball player / beach volleyball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dog

High school

Presentation High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Tamas
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%8B%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2570834

Tags

• California
• volleyball player
• beach volleyball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.