Eric Loeppky (born 1 August 1998) is a Canadian volleyball player and member of the Canadian national team.

Career

Loeppky started playing volleyball at a young age and helped lead the

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Sabres to their first AAAA provincial volleyball title in 2014, the top high school league in the province of

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. After high school he went to play volleyball with the

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Spartans. Loeppky joined the men's national team and helped the team to qualify for the

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at the

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. Following his qualification to the Olympics he told

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that it was his childhood dream come true, saying that "for it to finally be true is pretty surreal. Reflecting on all the time and hours and money and just energy put towards this thing, it feels like it just all came together in this one game. It was pretty, pretty special.”

Personal life

He is married to American national volleyball player Samantha Seliger-Swanson and they live together in Italy with their family where Loeppky plays professionally.

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* * 1998 births Living people Canadian men's volleyball players Volleyball players from Manitoba Olympic volleyball players for Canada Outside hitters Sportspeople from Steinbach, Manitoba Canadian Mennonites {{Canada-volleyball-bio-stub