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Dustin Schneider – Small Stature, Big Career
- Updated: November 30, 2016
Lausanne, Switzerland, November 30, 2017 – Dustin Schneider, one of Canada’s national team’s finest setters over the last decade, is announcing his retirement after defying odds to compete professionally in volleyball.At 1.83m (5 feet 11 inches), Schneider was always dubbed too small to compete in the sport of volleyball and encouraged to pursue other activities where height wasn’t such a big factor.Quick links – Volleyball:FIVB.com – VolleyballFIVB.comLatest VideosFacebookTwitterInstagramMedia Guides If it wasn’t for his love for the sport, an athlete of Schneider’s caliber may have chosen to pursue a different athletic career. Instead, Schneider used the doubt and his love for the sport to fuel his success.”I would like to acknowledge the people that wrote me off for being too small and not fitting the prototype of a volleyball player,” said Schneider. “I didn’t need extra motivation to want to be on the team and get better but it sure didn’t hurt.”When reflecting on his volleyball career, Schneider’s biggest source of pride comes from his participation with Canada’s national men’s volleyball team where he’s played since 2007.”Beating Serbia in the 2010 World Championships, finishing seventh in the 2014 World Championships, qualifying and playing in World League Finals and upsetting and beating Russia were great accomplishments,” said Schneider. “But honestly, …
