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Zhu Ting
Zhu Ting led China to gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics, earning MVP honors for a tournament in which she was widely regarded as the single most dominant player on the court in nearly every match she played, part of a run that reestablished China as a genuine power in women's volleyball after a period of relative decline. She was named MVP of the 2016 Olympics, the 2015 Asian Championship, and the 2019 World Cup, a run of major-tournament MVP awards across multiple years and multiple competition formats that few volleyball players of either gender have matched in such a short span. Zhu's move to Italy's Vakifbank Istanbul (playing in the Turkish league) in 2016 made her one of the sport's highest-paid players at the time, a signing that reflected how far her individual reputation had grown beyond China's own domestic league and into the sport's most competitive European club circuit. Her combination of height, attacking power, and reliable serve-receive — a defensive skill many pure power hitters don't develop to an elite level — made her one of the most statistically complete outside hitters of her generation, and she's widely regarded as the best women's volleyball player to emerge from China since the sport's 1980s golden generation.
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Karch Kiraly
Karch Kiraly is the only volleyball player in history to win Olympic gold medals in both indoor and beach volleyball — indoor golds in 1984 and 1988, then a beach gold in 1996 after the sport's Olympic debut — a dual-discipline dominance no other player, male or female, has ever matched. Before turning to the beach game, Kiraly anchored a US indoor men's team that won back-to-back Olympic golds in the 1980s and a 1986 World Championship, establishing him as the sport's best all-around player at a time when American men's volleyball was enjoying its most successful international stretch. His transition to beach volleyball in the 1990s produced similarly overwhelming results — more than 148 career beach tournament wins, still the most in AVP history, built on an all-around game that combined elite defense, setting, and hitting in a discipline that typically rewards specialists in just one or two of those skills. Kiraly later became the US women's national team head coach, guiding the team to Olympic gold in 2012 and 2016, extending his influence on the sport into coaching decades after his own playing dominance, and making him one of the very few figures in any sport to have won at the very top level as both a player and a head coach.
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