Gabriel Miranda Season 2020

Career Accolades

• MPSF All-Academic Team (2021)
• Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022)

As a Junior (2022)

• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Played in three matches, appearing in five sets

As a Sophomore (2021)

• MPSF All-Academic Team
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Played in two matches, appearing in five sets

As a Freshman (2020)

• Played in 10 matches, appearing in 23 sets
• Tallied his first career kill against UC Santa Cruz (Jan. 4)
• Registered his first collegiate ace against No. 5 Lewis (March 7)

Prior to Stanford

• A 2019 graduate of Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, Calif.
• Two-year letterwinner
• 2018 Team MVP
• Three-time Redondo Union HS Athletic Award (2016-18)
• 2018 Best of the West All-Tournament Team
• 2016 Boy's Varsity Rookie of the Year
• Played for Southern California Volleyball Club (SCVC)

Personal

• Son of Marcos Miranda and Ana Paula Henkel
  • Mother played on the Brazilian Indoor National Team in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, winning a bronze medal in Atlanta, and twice finished fifth for Brazil in beach volleyball in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games 
  • Father coached in four Olympics for Brazil, winning a gold medal in 1992 (1988 assistant coach women's national team, 1992 and 1996 assistant coach men's national team, 2004 head coach women's beach volleyball)
• Has a younger sibling, Victoria
• Stepfather, Carl John Henkel, was a member of UCLA's 1989 NCAA championship team and played on the U.S. National Team
  • He finished fifth at the 1996 Olympic Games in beach volleyball.
• His aunt, Marcelle Rodrigues, was the setter for the Brazilian National Team from 2000-06, winning gold at the 2005 Grand Prix and was a 2005 World Cup Champion
• His uncle, Andre Heller, played in three Olympic Games for the Brazilian National Team (2000, 2004, 2008), winning gold in Athens and silver in Beijing
• Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Full name is Gabriel Rodrigues Miranda  

Career Highs