Jose Martinez (born ) is a Mexican

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player. He is part of

Mexico men's national volleyball team The Mexico men's national volleyball team represents Mexico in international volleyball competitions. In the 1950s the squad twice won a medal (silver and bronze) at the Pan American Games. The dominant forces in men's volleybal ...

, and represented Mexico at the

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

2016 Rio. At club level he currently plays for the WA Steel, who play in the Australian Volleyball League Previously, he played for Strasbourg Volley-Ball in France.

Early life

Martínez was born in

Tijuana Tijuana ( ,"Tijuana"
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Baja California Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...

. He attended Mater Dei Catholic High School in Chula Vista, California, where he started playing volleyball and graduated in 2011. A four-year varsity starter, he was named to the second All-Metro League team. He also lettered in water polo under coach Guy Souza.

Career

During the summer of 2016, Martínez along with

, ended their 48-year absence in the Olympic Games, when they secured the final place at stake for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games through the World Olympic Qualification Tournament, which took place in their home turf in Mexico City.

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at ''FIVB.org'' 1993 births Living people Mexican men's volleyball players Place of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Tijuana Olympic volleyball players for Mexico Volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Mexico Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in volleyball {{Mexico-volleyball-bio-stub