Kévin Tillie (born 2 November 1990) is a French professional

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player who plays as an outside hitter for

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and the France national team. Tillie won a gold medal in the men's tournament at the

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, and is the 2015 European Champion and the 2015 World League winner.

Personal life

Tillie was born in

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. He is from an athletic family—his father

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was the head coach of the France men's national volleyball team during years, his mother Caroline played at the professional and Olympic levels (as did Laurent), his older brother

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played college basketball with the

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and now does professionally in Europe and with

, and his younger brother

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played on a two-way contract with the NBA's

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and its

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affiliate, the

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. In July 2017, he married Anna Diakiewicz. On 3 January 2020, they welcomed their first daughter, Olivia.

Career

After many appearances with the junior and youth national teams, Tillie debuted for the senior French national team at the

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, where the French team finished in seventh place. In Tillie's collegiate career, he started his career at Thompson Rivers University in Canada for two years while getting his papers processed to move to the United States. He made the All-Canadian Team honors averaging 4.41 kills per set. After getting his paperwork done, Tillie transferred to the University of California, Irvine Anteaters for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. Tillie was instrumental to UC Irvine as they made back to back NCAA championship runs those two years. Tillie earned AVCA All-American honors for both years. In 2015, moved to Polish club

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. On October 18, 2015, French national team, including him, achieved title of the European Champion 2015 (3–0 with

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in the finale). On April 26, 2016, he won with

a title of 2016 Polish Champion. In May 2016, he extended his contract till 2017. In May 2017, Tillie signed a contract with another Polish club

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and he wanted to continue his career in

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. In early August 2017, Kevin Tillie informed Jastrzębski Węgiel about his plans to moving to Chinese league despite the currently signed contract with them. The club did not want to cancel their agreement and applied to FIVB on blocking unprofessional situations when a player wants to void already signed contract without previous fulfillment.

Honours

Club

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2021–22 – with

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* Domestic ** 2014–15 Gold medal with cup

Turkish Championship, with Arkas İzmir ** 2015–16 Gold medal with cup

Polish Championship, with

** 2016–17 Simple gold cup

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, with ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle ** 2016–17 Gold medal with cup

Polish Championship, with ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle

College

* Domestic ** 2012 Gold medal with cup

NCAA national championship, with

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** 2013

NCAA national championship, with UC Irvine Anteaters

Youth national team

* 2008

CEV U20 European Championship

Individual awards

* 2017:

– Best receiver

State awards

* 2021:

Knight of the Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, ...

References

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