Background
Steffes, Kent was born on June 23, 1968 in Pacific Palisades, California, United States.
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Steffes, Kent was born on June 23, 1968 in Pacific Palisades, California, United States.
Karch Kiraly, who was just returning to beach volleyball after seven years on the National Team, chose to team with Steffes on the professional beach circuit.
Steffes received his American Automobile Association beach rating while still attending Palisades High School. He enrolled at Stanford University and played for one season before transferring to University of California, Los Los Angeles As a Bruin he red-shirted his first year and then opted out of his scholarship to join the Avon Products Tour full-time in 1988. The two formed one of the beach"s most successful partnerships.
Steffes earned the Avon Products Number.
1 ranking at age 24, the youngest player to do southern Steffes graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1993 with a bachelor"s degree in economics.
In 2000 he enrolled in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford, where he graduated in 2002. Steffes has a wife, Michelle, from Mount Vernon, Virginia.
They have two children together, Katharine Jackson Steffes, born in 2004 followed two years later by Conrad William Steffes, born in 2006.
That same year he was a member of the Avon Products Board of Directors, and served as Secretary.