Mai Yamaguchi

There's something genuinely cinematic about a 176 cm kid growing up in Shima, Mie — that rugged Ise-Shima coastline where the sea wind never really lets up — and ending up competing on sand courts under open skies. Mai Yamaguchi made that leap from indoor volleyball to beach volleyball, which is a harder transition than most people realize: the footing is terrible, the elements are unpredictable, and you're essentially playing a full team sport with just one other person. Born in 1983, she was pushing into her forties by the mid-2020s and still in the game, which tells you everything about her durability and commitment. I don't know all the details of her career record, but the sheer physicality of sustaining beach volleyball at that level for that long earns real respect from me. I keep imagining her reading the ocean wind better than anyone else on the court — hometown advantage, basically.

Mai Yamaguchi is a Japanese volleyball and beach volleyball player born on July 3, 1983, in Shima, Mie Prefecture. Standing 176 cm tall, she has competed in both indoor volleyball and beach volleyball. She was born in the coastal Ise-Shima region of Mie Prefecture, Japan.

Name (English)

Mai Yamaguchi

Name (Japanese)

山口舞

Reading

やまぐち まい

Born

July 3, 1983 (age 43)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Boar (i)

Origin

Shima, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Height

176 cm

Occupation

Volleyball Player / Beach Volleyball Player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%8F%A3%E8%88%9E

Tags

• From Mie Prefecture
• Volleyball Player
• Beach Volleyball Player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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