OT: Chase Budinger

[shizzle787]

Most of you don't know this guy by name, but if you saw what school he played for you would remember him. Budinger played college basketball at Arizona from 2006-09. He was the tall ginger dude on their team.

He made the Olympics- in beach volleyball. He's on one of the two men's teams in the 24-team event.

The most amazing part: in addition to being a top 5 basketball recruit as a senior in high school he was also the national player of the year in boy's volleyball. Guy was a high school version of Deion Sanders.

 

[caw]

Most of you don't know this guy by name, but if you saw what school he played for you would remember him. Budinger played college basketball at Arizona from 2006-09. He was the tall ginger dude on their team.

He made the Olympics- in beach volleyball. He's on one of the two men's teams in the 24-team event.

The most amazing part: in addition to being a top 5 basketball recruit as a senior in high school he was also the national player of the year in boy's volleyball. Guy was a high school version of Deion Sanders.

Wasn't he always considered a better volleyball player than basketball player, kind of like Cam's brother with lacrosse?

 

[EZPass]

I remember him.

 

[Lefty2one]

Tons of people know Chase Budinger by name lol.

 

[nomar]

Tons of people know Chase Budinger by name lol.

My synapses came up with “springy white guy who played at Arizona but couldn’t hack it in the NBA” within a nanosecond of seeing the thread title

 

[Huskybass]

Wilt Chamberlain is in the Volleyball Hall of Fame.

 

[Mr. French]

Always loved Budinger and Chandler Parsons as some non-UConn random guys.

Also, a few friends of mine have stories of playing him in HS when he was a sophomore and he was already insane - they traveled to CA for a big tournament but they weren’t that high level, and he did things they’d never seen. He was already a top rated VB player at that point, but I’ve heard those stories for years.