Paul Sunderland Biography
Paul Sunderland is an American professional sportscaster based in Los Angeles, California. He served as the indoor volleyball play-by-play announcer for NBC Olympics’ coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympics and has been with the NBC Sports Group since the 1992 Summer Olympics. He is a former collegiate basketball and volleyball player who competed for the United States national volleyball team in the 1984 Summer Olympics, where they won gold.
How old is Paul Sunderland? – Age
He is 72 year old as of 29 March. He was born in 1952 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States. His real name is Paul Benedict Sunderland.
Paul Sunderland Family – Education
Sunderland grew up in Sherman Oaks, in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. He attended Notre Dame High School and graduated in 1970. Sunderland attended Notre Dame, where he was a San Fernando Valley League All-League wide receiver and forward in basketball.
Paul Sunderland Wife – Children
Sunderland resides in Southern California with his wife, Maud-Ann. He met his wife during the 1977 World University Games in Bulgaria. Maud-Ann Tesch won the Swedish national fencing championship twice. She and Sunderland got married in Sweden in 1978. They have two children.
Paul Sunderland Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $10 million.
Paul Sunderland play-by-play
From the variety observer spot, Sunderland continued on to do in depth, and reached out into b-ball and different games. He before long took on work with the Trimmers and Dodgers for Fox Sports Net. Beginning in 1993, Sunderland covered Pac-10 b-ball for ESPN. He in this manner was employed by NBC to cover various games, including the NBA, WNBA and different Olympic games. Sunderland later filled in as an anchor on the Fox Sports Organization.
In 1993, Sunderland started doing pre-game facilitating for the Lakers. In 1995, Sunderland was working for Prime, NBC and ESPN. In the 2001-2002 season, the Lakers’ significant time-frame in depth commentator, Chick Hearn, needed to remove time while he recuperated from heart medical procedure, and afterward additional time was required when he was harmed in a fall and experienced a messed up hip. Sunderland filled in for Chick Hearn for 56 games during the 2001-02 season. At the point when Hearn kicked the bucket that year, in November 2002, he was reported as the new in depth commentator for the Los Angeles Lakers. He was just the subsequent host at any point recruited by the group. He reported for the Lakers through 2005. Beginning around 2005, Sunderland has functioned as a commentator for NBC and General Games, covering the Pac-12 in the games of Ball, Volleyball, Olympic style sports and Tennis.
Paul Sunderland filled in as the indoor volleyball in depth broadcaster for NBC Olympics’ inclusion at the 2016 Summer Olympics, collaborating with Kevin Barnett as expert. He has worked doing the NBC Sports Gathering’s late spring Olympics inclusion since the 1992 Games in Barcelona. Sunderland at present fills in as an in depth broadcaster for both volleyball and men’s b-ball on ESPN.
Paul Sunderland Career
Sunderland played b-ball and football at Notre Lady, and was a San Fernando Valley Association All-Association choice as both a wide recipient in football and as a forward in b-ball. He began playing volleyball near the ocean during his secondary school years, and states he had a quick love for the game. He was enlisted to the College of Oregon on a ball grant. Between his rookie and sophomore school seasons, he started playing a lot of ocean side volleyball, and he joined the College of Oregon’s USVBA club group during his sophomore year. Sunderland states he put forth an objective to play on the US public volleyball crew. Following his sophomore year, he moved to Loyola Marymount so he could play ball and volleyball. Sunderland formed into one of Loyola’s top volleyball players, acquiring All-America praises.
Sunderland was welcome to go for the US public group in 1975, and he got it done for the formative crew. Sunderland climbed to the “A” crew, after the US group neglected to fit the bill for the 1976 Summer Olympics. He won U.S. Player of the Year grants in 1977, 1979 and 1982, at the USVBA public competition. The US neglected to meet all requirements for the 1980 Summer Olympics, held in Moscow, of the Soviet Association. The US boycotted the games, making the inability to qualify a debatable issue. Obviously the groups that the US set up following the USVBA nationals were presently not sufficient to contend on the worldwide level.
The program employed previous player Doug Beal as a full-time mentor of the US men’s public group in 1977. He turned into the main thrust for laying out a full-time, all year volleyball preparing focus. The office was made in Dayton, Ohio, in 1978. California was the then-hotbed of volleyball ability, and a significant number of the country’s top players wouldn’t migrate to Dayton to take an interest in the public group. The instructional hub and the public group program were moved to San Diego, California, in 1981. Sunderland was currently a veteran, and he had formed into a strong all-around player. He was enlisted in the public group in San Diego by an assortment of the top university ability from the California region, including Karch Kiraly, Dusty Dvorak, Steve Timmons, Craig Buck, Steven Salmons, Pat Powers and Doug Partie. The US crew was among the world’s first class groups by 1983. The circle back finished with the gold decoration at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Sunderland set winning an Olympic gold decoration as a lifetime objective. Partner Kiraly, said: “It is something that he truly needed, and it was truly perfect to see that quite possibly of the most established person in the group was likewise the most energized.”
Following the culmination of his playing profession, Sunderland sought after a lifelong in communicating. Sunderland’s athletic vocation framed the base for a transmission profession, at first filling in as a volleyball reporter. He was matched with previous colleague Chris Marlowe. Sunderland’s employing was a confidence lift to Marlowe, who had been accomplishing communicated work for various years, generally matched with staff with next to zero volleyball experience. Said Marlowe, “Right off the bat I was working with telecasters who might not have known a volleyball from a pineapple. At the point when Paul moved into the variety spot – that truly clicked. We were lifelong companions, played together in the public group for quite a long time, and our science was fabulous.” Sunderland’s most memorable task was in 1985 working with Marlowe at the NCAA Men’s Volleyball West Territorial match between San Diego State and Pepperdine.