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here are fans, and then there are Super Fans. Fans know when the team is playing at home; Super Fans dress in costumes, drive 14 hours for a game or match, know everything about their team and, often, know everything about the opponent, too. Fans show up for the match and cheer; Super Fans plan events surrounding the match, start foundations to help young players or use their own social media for promotion of the game. All types of fans are important, but there are four Super Fans


of the USA National Teams who are hoping their love of volleyball will rub off on everyone they come in contact with to help promote the talented and personality-laden teams they so fervently cheer for. If you’ve been to a USA Volleyball National Team match in Southern California in the last few years, Matt Garthoff needs no


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THE PATRIOT: In his tricorn hat and clad in red,white and blue, Matt Garthoff is hard to miss at Southern California volleyball events. (Photo: Suzie Houseworth)


When it comes to loving the game and the USA teams, nobody does it with more passion and commitment than this group


by Jennifer Armson-Dyer


introduction. He’s the one running around and dancing in the stands, holding an American fl ag, wearing a red, white and blue colonial jacket, tricorn hat and gold epaulettes. A Virginia native, Garthoff was introduced to the sport one day in high school at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., a fi tting foreshadowing of his current match garb. There he met California and Hawaii transplants who painted an enticing picture of the South- ern California beach lifestyle. With his admitted California fi xation, attending USC for college was a perfect fi t for Garthoff. The Trojans winning the men’s volleyball national championship, coupled with the 1984 and 1988 men’s Olympic gold medal successes, pulled Garthoff even further into the volleyball world, where he played club, pick-up games, in fraternities at USC and on the beach.


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