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Beverly Oden
Personal information
Full name	Beverly Jean Oden
Born	March 9, 1971 (1971-03-09) (age 53) Millington, Tennessee, U.S.
Height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
College / University	Stanford University
Volleyball information
Position	Middle blocker
Number	7
National team
1992–1996  United States
Honours Women's volleyball Representing the  United States Goodwill Games 1994 Saint Petersburg Team Pan American Games 1995 Mar del Plata Team

Beverly ("Bev") Oden (born March 9, 1971) is a former volleyball player from the United States. She played middle blocker for the United States women's national volleyball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Among her achievements, Oden helped the United States win silver medals at the 1994 Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg and the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata.

College

Oden played volleyball for Stanford University as a middle blocker and was named the 1990 NCAA Player of the Year. Oden was the first to be named to the AVCA All-America first-team all four years of her collegiate eligibility (1989–1992). In 1991, she won the Honda-Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation's best female collegiate volleyball player.

In 2001, Oden was inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame.

Personal life

Oden's sisters, Kim and Elaina, were also Olympians who played on the United States national volleyball team.

Oden made the news in 2007 when she was held in custody by Orange County sheriff deputies near her hometown of Irvine, California in relation to a reported incident. She was released after being questioned and spending an hour and a half inside a police car. She was found to have no connection with the incident in question, and her ordeal prompted local community leaders to form the Oden Commission to hold discussions on racial profiling between residents and law enforcement.

Awards

• Four-time AVCA All-American — 1989–1992
• NCAA Player of the Year — 1990
• Honda-Broderick Award — 1991
• Goodwill Games silver medal — 1994
• Pan American Games silver medal — 1995
• Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame — 2001

References

1. ^ "Beverly Oden". Olympedia. Archived from the original on July 17, 2023. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
2. "Women's Volleyball All-America Teams and Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 5, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
3. ^ "Bev Oden". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 22, 2021. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
4. "Stanford's Bev Oden Is All-American for Fourth Year in Row". Los Angeles Times. December 17, 1992. Retrieved August 4, 2023. (subscription required)
5. "Volleyball". Collegiate Women Sports Awards. Archived from the original on July 29, 2023. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
6. "Bev Oden". Stanford University Athletics. Archived from the original on March 23, 2020. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
7. ^ Pearlman, Jeff (February 15, 2007). "Wrong color at the wrong time". ESPN. Archived from the original on May 25, 2022. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
8. Chang, Richard (November 4, 2007). "Group meets law enforcement to discuss race". The Orange County Register. Retrieved May 14, 2008. (subscription required)

External links

• Bev Oden at Olympics.com
• Olympedia profile: Beverly Oden
• Washington Post profile: Beverly Oden
• Volleybox.net profile
• Team USA - 1996 Olympic Volleyball Teams (archived)
• Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame profile
• Beverley Oden Bio at About.com (archived)

v t e 1996 USA Olympic Volleyball Team (Men's beach - Gold & Silver medals)
Qualification	Men's indoor Women's indoor
Men's indoor	Lloy Ball Bob Ctvrtlik Scott Fortune John Hyden Bryan Ivie Michael Lambert Dan Landry Jeff Nygaard Tom Sorensen Jeff Stork Ethan Watts Brett Winslow
Women's indoor	Tara Cross-Battle Lori Endicott Caren Kemner Kristin Klein Beverly Oden Elaina Oden Danielle Scott Tammy Webb Paula Weishoff Tonya Sanders-Williams Elaine Youngs Yoko Zetterlund
Men's beach	Karch Kiraly Kent Steffes Mike Dodd Mike Whitmarsh Carl Henkel Sinjin Smith
Women's beach	Holly McPeak Nancy Reno
Coaches	Terry Liskevych Fred Sturm

• 1971 births
• American women's volleyball players
• Living people
• Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Sportspeople from Irvine, California
• People from Millington, Tennessee
• Sportspeople from the Memphis metropolitan area
• Stanford Cardinal women's volleyball players
• Middle blockers
• Olympic volleyball players for the United States
• Competitors at the 1994 Goodwill Games
• Goodwill Games medalists in volleyball
• Volleyball players at the 1995 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
• Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in volleyball
• 20th-century American sportswomen