Samuel Schachter (born May 8, 1990) is a Canadian Olympic

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player. In 2010 he won the FIVB World Junior (U-21) Championship with Garrett May. At the

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in Israel, he and Team Canada won a silver medal. He and partner Josh Binstock were 2014 Canadian national champions, and represented Canada at the

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and the

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. At the

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, he and Binstock earned silver medals.

Early and personal life

Schachter was born in

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, now lives in

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, and is Jewish. His parents are Jon and Doris Schachter, and he has an older brother Nathan. He attended

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for high school. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Communications Studies at

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, competing for the

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, with whom he was

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Rookie of the Year. He has coached the

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, and

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men's volleyball teams.

Volleyball career

In 2010 he won the FIVB World Junior (U-21) Championship with Garrett May. At the

in Israel, he and Team Canada won a

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in volleyball, losing the gold medal to the Israelis. In 2014 he and his then-partner Josh Binstock were Canadian national champions. They also won a gold medal at the Parana Open, an FIVB (international volleyball federation) World Tour event. He was named the (U.S.) National Volleyball League (NVL) 2014 Best Defensive Player. In 2015 they competed at the

in Toronto, and finished 8th, after Schachter suffered a back injury prevented them from playing in the relegation round. They finished 9th at the 2015

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. In June of that year they also came in second at the Major Series tournament in Porec,

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, the first time a Canadian men's team had reached the podium in a major FIVB World Tour event since 1997. They competed in the 2015 FIVB World Championship, finishing ninth. In May 2016, they finishing second at the FIVB Beach Volleyball Cincinnati Open. Schachter competed along with Binstock at the

, where they came in 19th. At the

, he and Binstock earned silver medals.

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