Kévin Tillie

Kévin Tillie (born 2 November 1990) is a French volleyball player, a member of France men's national volleyball team and Polish club VERVA Warszawa ORLEN Paliwa, 2015 European Champion, gold medalist of the 2015 World League, Polish Champion (2016, 2017).

Kévin Tillie
Personal information
Nationality French
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)
College(s)Thompson Rivers University
University of California, Irvine
Volleyball information
PositionOutside hitter
Current club VERVA Warszawa ORLEN Paliwa
Number22
Career
YearsTeams
2009–2011
2011–2013
2013–2014
2014–2015
2015–2017
2017
2017–2019
2019–2020		 Thompson Rivers University
UC Irvine Anteaters
CMC Ravenna
Arkas Izmir
ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Jastrzębski Węgiel
Beijing Baic Motor
VERVA Warszawa ORLEN Paliwa
National team
2012– France
Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing  France
European Championship
2015 Bulgaria/Italy
World League
2015 Rio de Janeiro
2016 Kraków
Nations League
2018 Lille

Personal life

Tillie was born in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. He is from an athletic family—his father Laurent is the head coach of the France men's national volleyball team, 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 currently plays college basketball with the Gonzaga Bulldogs.

In July 2017 he married Polish Anna Diakiewicz. On January 3, 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 unproffesional situations when a player wants to void already signed contract without previous fulfillment.[7]

Sporting achievements

College
  • National championships
    • 2012 NCAA National Championship
    • 2013 NCAA National Championship
  • MPSF Championships
    • 2012 MPSF Championship

Clubs

National team

Individually
  • 2012: All-American First Team and All-MPSF First Team
  • 2013: All-American First Team and All-MPSF First Team
  • 2017: Polish Cup – Best Receiver

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
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