Kévin Tillie

Kévin Tillie (born 2 November 1990) is a French professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Projekt Warsaw and the France national team. Tillie won a gold medal in the men's tournament at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, and is the 2015 European Champion and the 2015 World League winner.

Kévin Tillie
Personal information
NationalityFrench
Born (1990-11-02) 2 November 1990
Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
Height2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Spike345 cm (136 in)
Block325 cm (128 in)
College / UniversityThompson Rivers University
University of California, Irvine
Volleyball information
PositionOutside hitter
Current clubProjekt Warsaw
Number7
Career
YearsTeams
2009–2011
2011–2013
2013–2014
2014–2015
2015–2017
2017
2017–2019
2019
2019–2020
2020–2021
2021–2022
2022–		Thompson Rivers University
UC Irvine Anteaters
CMC Ravenna
Arkas İzmir
ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Jastrzębski Węgiel
Beijing Volleyball
Modena Volley
Projekt Warsaw
Top Volley Cisterna
Tours VB
Projekt Warsaw
National team
2012– France
Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing  France
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2020 Tokyo
FIVB World League
Gold medal – first place2015 Rio de Janeiro
Bronze medal – third place2016 Kraków
FIVB Nations League
Silver medal – second place2018 Lille
Bronze medal – third place2021 Rimini
CEV European Championship
Gold medal – first place2015 Bulgaria/Italy

Personal life

Tillie was born in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. He is from an athletic family—his father Laurent 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 Kim played college basketball with the Utah Utes and now does professionally in Europe and with France, and his younger brother Killian played on a two-way contract with the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies and its G League affiliate, the Memphis Hustle.

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 2012 FIVB Volleyball World League, where the French team finished in seventh place.[1]

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 ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle.[2] On October 18, 2015, French national team, including him, achieved title of the European Champion 2015 (3–0 with Slovenia in the finale).[3]

On April 26, 2016, he won with ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle a title of 2016 Polish Champion.[4] In May 2016, he extended his contract till 2017.[5] In May 2017, Tillie signed a contract with another Polish club Jastrzębski Węgiel and he wanted to continue his career in PlusLiga.[6] 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.[7]

Honours

Club

College

Youth national team

Individual awards

State awards

References
  1. Les Tillie, une famille en bleu Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine – sport.fr – 21-05-2012
  2. Kevin Tillie w ZAKSIE – zaksa.pl – 07-05-2015
  3. France celebrate historic European crown, Slovenia happy with silver – cev.eu – 18-10-2015
  4. Wielki finał PlusLigi: Asseco Resovia Rzeszów – ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle 0:3. ZAKSA mistrzem Polski! – plusliga.pl – 26-04-2016
  5. Sam Deroo i Kevin Tillie pozostają z ZAKSĄ Kędzierzyn–Koźle w kolejnym sezonie – zaksa.pl – 02-05-2016
  6. Kevin Tillie w Jastrzębskim Węglu – jastrzebskiwegiel.pl – 15-05-2017
  7. Komunikat w sprawie Kevina Tillie – jastrzebskiwegiel.pl – 09-08-2017
  8. "Décret du 8 septembre 2021 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur". Légifrance (in French). Retrieved 11 May 2023.
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