Carly Wopat
Position: Middle Blocker
Height: 6-2
Weight: 154
Hometown/Residence: Santa Barbara, Calif./Santa Barbara, Calif.
Birth Date: Oct. 13, 1992
Club Team/Coach: Santa Barbara Volleyball Club (Santa Barbara, Calif.) / Liz Towne-Gilbert
High School/Grad Year: Dos Pueblos High School (Goleta, Calif.) / 2010
College Status: Verbal commitment to Stanford University
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2008 – NORCECA Girls’ Youth Continental Championship (Gold).
USA VOLLEYBALL HIGHLIGHTS: 2009 – Selected to the U.S. Girls’ Youth National Training Team. 2008 – Part of gold-medal winning team which won the gold medal at the NORCECA Girls’ Youth Continental Championship, which qualified the U.S. into the 2009 FIVB World Championship. Scored 38 points (24 kills, 8 blocks, 6 aces) at the NORCECA Championship for 16th place. 2007 – Led USA Select A1 Team to silver medal in the Youth International Division of the USA Volleyball High Performance Championships.
CLUB/PREP HIGHLIGHTS: 2009 – Named Athlete of the Year for women’s volleyball by the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table. 2008 – Helped Santa Barbara Volleyball Club 18-1 to a fifth-place finish at the USA Junior Olympic Girls’ Volleyball Championship National Division…Selected Channel League (CIF) Most Valuable Player, All-CIF Southern California Section First-Team and All-Channel League (CIF) First-Team with Dos Pueblos High School…Named all-tournament at the California Challenge Tournament, Dave Mohs Tournament and Tournament of Championship. 2007 – Paced Santa Barbara Volleyball Club 14-1 Team to a fifth-place finish in the USA Junior Olympic Girls’ Volleyball Championship Open Division…Earned All-CIF Channel League and All-County First-Team. 2006 – Assisted Santa Barbara Volleyball Club 13-1 to a bronze finish at the USA Junior Olympic Girls’ Volleyball Championship Club Division. 2005 – Helped Santa Barbara Volleyball Club 13-1 Team to a sixth-place finish at Reno Volleyball Festival…Named most valuable player at the Junior Tournament of Champions. 2004 – Began club volleyball with Santa Barbara Volleyball Club.
PERSONAL: Born Carly Anela Wopat on Oct. 13, 1992, in Santa Barbara, Calif.… Parents are Ron and Kathy Wopat… Father Ron competed in the 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials for the decathlon and placed 12th out of 32 competitors and was a part of the eight-member 1981 U.S. Decathlon Team…Mother Kathy competed in gymnastics and track and field at UC Santa Barbara…Brothers are Jackson (1995) and Eli (1998) and twin sister is Samantha (1992)…Sister Samantha was also selected to the 2008 U.S. Girls’ Youth National Training Team…Has played beach volleyball for four years and her partner is her twin sister Sam…Hobbies include traveling, track and field, basketball, reading, going to the beach, hiking, fishing, robotics and spending time with friends…Favorite food is pineapple…Favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird…Favorite music type is rock…Favorite singer is Jack Johnson…Favorite professional team is the beach dual of Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser…Favorite athlete is Lance Armstrong…Most admired person is Neil Armstrong because “he did what people that was impossible.”
INTERESTING NOTES: “My Dad has six older brothers and grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. His brother Tom Wopat is an actor (who does Broadway now) and played Luke Duke on the TV show Dukes of Hazzard. My Mom was raised in Hawaii. I am a member of the Dos Pueblos High School Engineering Academy and look forward to being on the robotics team next year. I recently (April 2009) broke the school record in discus for track and field! I have a twin and 2 little brothers.”
