Todd Rogers
Todd Jonathan Rogers ( born September 30, 1973 in Santa Barbara ) is an American beach volleyball player, Olympic champion and world champion.
Career
With Dax Holdren Todd Rogers launched in 1995 his beach volleyball career. In 1997 he was elected Rookie of the Year. 1998 won the two Californians their first AVP tournament in 1999 they managed another victory. In addition to two AVP tournaments won Rogers / Holdren 2000, her first ( and only ) FIVB tournament in Rosarito, Mexico, where they were placed at position 32. In 2001 there were recent common victory for the California duo, then they were fifth at the Beach Volleyball World Championships in Klagenfurt. With his new partner Sean Scott Rogers succeeded death in 2004, a victory on the AVP Tour, the 2005, three more followed. At the World Championships in Berlin, the Californians started for the first time with Phil Dalhausser, the two reached the seventh place. The two succeeded in winning the 2006 FIVB tournament in Klagenfurt, where they were followed in 2007 by the World Champion title. For the first time did not come from South America at the men's winner. In addition Dahlhausser / Rogers reached in all seventeen of them disputed AVP tournaments the semi-finals, ten times they were at the top of the podium. 2008, the two Americans were able to increase this performance yet. In addition to her Olympic gold medal in Beijing in 2008, they won eleven events of AVP and four of the FIVB. 2009 was for Rogers / Dalhausser not quite as successful, after a defeat in the semi-final against the Germans Brink / Recker man Americans could secure even the bronze medal at the World Championships in Stavanger, in addition, there were eight AVP and FIVB two successes.
2010
The two professionals from North America emulated their success in the past years with the first tournaments of the year. The Brasilia Open, the Foro Italico Beach Volley Grand Slam and the Mysłowice Open, she won (after a semi-final victory over her successor as world champion Brink / Recker man), only in Shanghai, there was only enough for fourth place. The Moscow Open Rogers / Dalhausser lost the final against the Chinese Wu / Xu, but in the Czech Republic they were again the number one after a victory over the Brazilians Emanuel / Alison. After a semi-final defeat in Stavanger as with the world championship last year against a German team, the Americans were able to return the favor in the final of the next tournament in Switzerland with a 2-0 win against their conqueror of Norway, and after the success over Klemperer / Koreng already take the fifth gold medal of the year in reception. The sixth tournament victory reached the Olympic champion in Klagenfurt after they had defeated their American compatriots Matt Fuerbringer and Nick Lucena in the semifinal Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti and in the final.
2011
After victories in the World Tour in Brasilia and in Shanghai Dalhausser / Rogers landed in Prague in second place. At the World Championships in Rome, they failed in the second round at Brink / Recker man. This was the only event of the year on which the athletes participated from the United States and did not reach a place among the top eight teams. In the following tournament in Norway Rogers and Dalhausser also occupied the fifth place as in the event in Beijing, which took place just before the world championships. These three events and the last two tournaments of the season, where the Olympic champion failed to launch, were the only in 2011 without a medal. Subsequently, the reigning Champions Tour reached the final in Gstaad, were third in Moscow and won the tournaments in Canada and Poland. At the Grand Slam in Klagenfurt they finished bronze medal before they finished as silver medalist in the Åland Open and second in the overall standings of the year, their season.
2012
After two victories in the Brasila Open and the Grand Slam of Shanghai Todd Rogers ended up with Phil Dalhausser at the 2012 Olympic Games in London after a 0-2 loss in the second round against the Italians Nicolai / Lupo only to ninth place. In the world tour of the same year, the two Americans still occupied twice the bronze medal at the Prague Open and the last tournament of the season in Stare Jablonki. They also reached at the events in Gstaad and Klagenfurt the semifinals.
2013
For the 2013 season, the now 39 -year-old Todd Rogers is with the 2.15 m large American Ryan Doherty a beach volleyball team. The new team will also start on the FIVB tour.
Private
Heidi and David Rogers are the parents of Jonathan Todd, who has a brother named Dean. Rogers attended San Marcos High School in his hometown of Santa Barbara, and then the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here he received his doctorate in 1996 in religious studies. From 2000 to 2005, the Californian was assistant coach of the men's volleyball team at his home university. Todd Rogers is married to Melissa Mason Heimer Rogers, the two have a daughter Hannah and a son Nate.