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

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player who plays as an outside hitter for

Projekt Warsaw Projekt Warsaw, officially known as PGE Projekt Warszawa, is a professional men's volleyball club based in Warsaw in central Poland. They compete in the Polish PlusLiga, the top flight of Polish volleyball. The club started as the volleyball se ...

and the

France national team France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

. Tillie won gold medals in the men's tournament at both the

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and Paris 2024, and the

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title in 2015.

Personal life

Tillie was born in

Cagnes-sur-Mer Cagnes-sur-Mer (, literally ''Cagnes on Sea''; ) is a French Riviera town near Nice that is in the Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in southeastern France. Geography Cagnes-sur-Mer is a town in southeaste ...

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

. He is from an athletic family – his father

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is a volleyball coach and former player; his mother Caroline played at the professional and Olympic levels (as did Laurent); his older brother Kim 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,

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. He is married to Anna Diakiewicz and has a daughter, Olivia.

Career

After many appearances with the junior and youth national teams, Tillie debuted for the senior national team at the 2012 World League, where the French team finished in seventh place. Tillie started his career at

Thompson Rivers University Thompson Rivers University (commonly referred to as TRU) is a Public university, public research university located in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The university's name comes from the two rivers which converge in Kamloops, the North Thomp ...

for their athletic program

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British Columbia. Kevin played with fellow Olympian Gord Perrin in his first year. In his second year he was second in the country in both kills per set and total kills, with 400. He made the All-Canadian Team honors averaging 4.41 kills per set. Tellie's second year setter is

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Headcoach
Mike Hawkins
After playing for the TRU WolfPack, Tillie transferred to the

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, 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, he moved to the Polish

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team,

ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle, is a professional men's volleyball club based in Kędzierzyn-Koźle in southern Poland, founded in 1994. They compete in the Polish PlusLiga. ZAKSA have won 9 domestic league titles, 10 national cups, and three CEV Cha ...

and in his first professional season won the 2015–16 championship. In May 2016, he extended his contract until 2017, and the following season once again won the championship, as well as the

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Honours

Club

CEV Cup The CEV Cup is the second tier official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe. The competition takes place every year. Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup. In 2000 it was renamed to CEV Top Teams Cup and in 2007 to CEV Cup. T ...

2021–22 – with

Tours VB Tours VB is a professional men's volleyball club which is playing their home matches at the Salle Robert Grenon in Tours, France. Tours VB plays in LNV Ligue A, top volleyball league in France. According to Media Guide book, the annual budget o ...

CEV Challenge Cup The CEV Challenge Cup is the third tier official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe. The competition started in the 1980–81 season under the name CEV Cup. In 2007 it was renamed to CEV Challenge Cup. History * # ...

2023–24 – with

* 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 ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and civil. Currently consisting of five classes, it was ...

References

External links

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Player profile
at ''LegaVolley.it''
Player profile
at ''PlusLiga.pl''
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at ''Volleybox.net'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Tillie, Kevin 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Cagnes-sur-Mer French men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for France Volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic medalists in volleyball European champions for France French expatriate volleyball players in Italy French expatriate volleyball players in Turkey French expatriate volleyball players in Poland French expatriate sportspeople in China Expatriate volleyball players in China UC Irvine Anteaters men's volleyball players Thompson Rivers WolfPack volleyball players ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle players Projekt Warsaw players Tours Volley-Ball players Outside hitters Knights of the Legion of Honour Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century French sportsmen