Patty Dodd
Experience: Eight Seasons
Height: 5'8"
Residence: El Segundo, Calif.
Birthdate: July 29, 1963
Birthplace: Bogota, Columbia
High School: Bogota Camilo Torres '79
College: UCLA '85
Grand Slams:
Dodd has competed in 17 grand slam events and is 15th in earnings
($20,701), including seven final four finishes (two seconds, one
third and four fourths). Dodd had seconds at the U.S. Opens with
Lisa Strand-Ma'a in 1988 and with Jackie Silva in 1989. Dodd was
fourth twice in the Nationals with Dale Hall in 1987 and with Lisa
Arce in 1995. Dodd has competed in two shootouts with a sixth
in 1990 with Jeanne Reeves. Dodd and Arce tied for fifth in the
1995 Best of the Beach.
WPVA Career:
Dodd is 12th in earnings ($112,207.88). Dodd has 45 final four
finishes, including 12 firsts, eight seconds, 11 thirds and 14
fourths.
Partnerships:
Dodd has competed in 90 events with 19 partners, including 21 with
Silva, nine each with Hall and Roque, seven each with Strand-Ma'a
and Karolyn Kirby, five each with Liz Masakayan, Cammy Ciarelli
and Christine Schaefer, four with Heather Hafner, three each with
Reeves and Rita Crockett, two each with Judy Bellomo, Lori Biller,
Holly McPeak and Arce, and one each with Julie Thornton, Nina
Matthies, Marie Andersson and Karrie Poppinga.
College:
Dodd lettered four years in volleyball at the University of
California at Los Angeles (1981-85) and played on the school's
1984 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball championship team. Dodd
was an All-American her junior and senior years at UCLA and made
the NCAA all-tournament teams as a sophomore and senior.
High School:
Dodd competed in volleyball and basketball at Bogota Torres where
she was the nation's top women volleyball player in high school.
Personal:
Dodd's parents are Jorge and Alicia Orozco. She has a brother
(Jorge A.) and a sister (Maria). She was married Nov. 2, 1986, to
Mike Dodd in Las Vegas, Nev. The Dodds have one child (Dalas Alicia).
Her husband is a professional volleyball player. She and her husband
are the only married couple to have ever won open professional titles
on the same weekend in 1989 (four times). Dodd played on the Major
League Volleyball championship team (Los Angeles Starlites) in both
1987 and 1988. Her hobbies are cooking, movies, shopping and dancing.
She taught six years of bilingual kindergarten teacher in Lennox, CA.
WPVA Career Statistics
Year Earnings Points Events 1 2 3 4 W- L Aces
1987 $ 1,725.00 124 9 0 1 1 2 26- 18 NA
1988 3,218.50 88 6 0 1 1 1 18- 12 NA
1989 28,870.00 358 14 11 1 0 1 68- 6 NA
1990 26,200.00 340 16 1 3 3 3 61- 32 NA
1991 14,762.50 252 16 0 1 2 0 49- 32 NA
1992 21,646.88 320 16 0 1 3 3 57- 35 35
(1994 14,067.00 280 14 0 0 2 1 0- 0 NA)
1995 15,785.00 188 13 0 0 1 4 40- 34 110
WPVA $112,207.88 1,670 90 12 8 11 14 319-169 145
Other $ 14,067.00 280 14 0 0 2 1 0- 0 NA
Totals $126,274.88 1,950 104 12 8 13 15 316-166 145
Revised February 3, 1996
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