Logan Tom

An outside hitter, Logan Tom was a four-time volleyball Olympian, playing in 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. She won silver medals in 2008 and 2012 and added a silver at the 2002 World Championships. She helped the USA win the NORCECA Championships in 2003 and 2011. At Sydney in 2000 Tom was only 19-years-old, at the time the youngest ever US female volleyball Olympian.

Tom came from a sporting family as her father, Melvyn Tom, played defensive end in the NFL from 1967-75, with the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears. Logan went to Stanford where she starred on the volleyball team. She was a first-team All-American as a freshman and became only the third woman to make first-team All-American in four consecutive years. She was twice named the NCAA Player of the Year. Logan took time off to play for the US National Team and play professionally, and graduated from Stanford in 2014, one year after her induction into the Stanford University Athletics Hall of Fame.

Tom was on the US National Team from 1999-2012. She played professionally from 2002-19, in 12 countries and with over 15 teams, including club appearances in Brazil, China, France, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey.

Tom was chosen MVP of the 2004 World Grand Prix and was selected as best scorer and best server at that tournament. Her other individual honors include best receiver at the 2003 Pan-American Cup, 2003 Montreux Volley Masters, and the 2010 World Championships; best server at the 2003 Yeltsin Cup and the 2011 NORCECA Championship; and best scorer at the 2008 Olympics.

In 2021, Tom was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame and she was named to the Utah Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2015 she was named the Pac-12 Conference Volleyball Player of the Century.

In May 2021, Tom was appointed as the head coach of the Israel women’s national volleyball team.