Born in Redondo Beach, California, Sean never played organized volleyball growing up. Instead, he taught himself on local beaches and was driven by a passion for the sport. With six siblings raised by a single mother, Sean matured at an early age, working a morning job to help support his family. Never attending college, Sean began playing professional volleyball at the age of 16 after his AVP debut in The duo won the season opener, winning in their first outing together.
They won two more gold medals in Grand Slam events, including in Long Beach. Their three gold medals tied for the most on Tour, but they finished ranked ninth as they only played in eight tournaments. On the AVP Tour, Rosenthal and Dalhausser advanced to five semifinals in the nine events, winning once and placing second twice. They were the fourth ranked team on tour.
The duo won the season points title, becoming just the third team from the U. The duo won four straight medals leading up the London Olympics, where they finished in fifth place. The duo placed 17th in the World Champsionships in Rome, and won a bronze in Quebec. They ended the year as the 10th-ranked team on the FIVB in season points. Advanced to three semifinals in six AVP events. The advanced to three semifinals following that, and each time was after suffering an early loss in the winner's bracket.
The duo won a bronze medal in Poland then placed ninth in the World Championships in Stavanger, being eliminated by the eventual champions. Sean Michael Rosenthal born June 19, is an American beach volleyball player, playing as a defender.
At the age of 16, he made his professional debut in the AVP. He has gone on to pair up with players like Jake Gibb and Phil Dalhausser. Rosenthal made his Olympic debut at the Summer Olympics with Gibb.
The team made it to the quarterfinals before losing to the Brazilian duo Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego. Shortly after the Summer Olympics, Gibb and Rosenthal split up as teammates after six years as partners. In , Rosenthal and Gibb played in six international events, with fifth being their best finish.
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How often could you see that same athlete, in spite of a bum knee that is still recovering from a recent surgery, setting in the famed Solstice fours tournament at 21 st Street? And, to be sure, Rosenthal has aspired to those, and enjoyed more success than most. Those are the events that have made him famous outside of the South Bay enclave and continued to fund his enviable livelihood.
But they were never his why, never the reason he got into this game in the first place. More than two decades later, those events remain far from the motivation for why he continues to play. To say that Rosenthal is entering a new role in his beach volleyball career would be inaccurate, though many, pointing only to his declining results and waning tournaments played, may see it that way.
In the midst of a tight Olympic race, in which he was partnered with Jake Gibb , Rosenthal could feel the strange tension between them and American rivals Matt Fuerbringer and Casey Jennings, who were nipping at their heels for the Olympic bid. For some reason, for me, I want to watch you do well. I want to go to the Olympics because I earned it. That was a big dagger. You should be coming together. How many times are you going to get a chance, a realistic chance to go to the Olympics, with one of your childhood friends.
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