The Players
Jake Gibb
(Ken Delgado / http://kendelgado.com)
Birth Date:Friday, February 06, 1976
Hometown:Bountiful, Utah, UT
Resides:Costa Mesa, Calif., CA
Height:6'7''
College:Utah
Website:http://www.jakegibb.com
Gibb is one of the rising stars on the AVP Tour and took home his first title in 2004 at the Austin Open alongside former partner Adam Jewell. Since the start of the 2004 season, Gibb has been in 25 finals, winning eight titles with three different partners. He is the only player to finish ranked in the top five in each of the past four seasons.
Playing with Stein Metzger for the first time, the duo won the first two tournaments of 2005, becoming just the third team since 1990 to win consecutive tournaments to begin a partnership. They won in Belmar, then placed second in an FIVB Grand Slam event in Paris, logging the highest finish by an American team in 2005. Their win in Manhattan Beach in 2005 made Gibb and Metzger just the second team to win four domestic tournaments in a season since the turn of the century, and also marked the first time since the 2003 season opener that a number one-seeded team won an AVP open event. Gibb was chosen as the MVP of the AVP in 2005.
In 2006 he and Sean Rosenthal won the season-opening event on the CROCS AVP Tour, with their $50,000 prize money the largest payout since 1997. In addition to playing in six finals, the duo also played in three FIVB championships, winning in Acapulco. In February 2007 Gibb won the individual exhibition event in Albany, N.Y.
Gibb led the 2005 AVP Tour with four wins, as well as in points and prize money, and earned MVP honors. Ranked second in blocks (398) and fourth in aces (59) on the Tour in 2005. In 2006, he ranked third in hitting percentage (.477), fifth in kill percentage (.599) and fifth in blocks (1.82 per game). Gibb finished the 2007 season ranked second in blocks (1.94 per game).
He is one of the few players on the AVP Tour that did not play volleyball in college. Instead, he grew in
Gibb is the youngest of 11 children (six boys, five girls). He graduated from the
He and his wife Jane were married in 2000 and moved to
