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Casey Patterson (beach volleyball)

US volleyball and beach volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ13521858 ↗
Source-derived summary

Casey Patterson (born April 20, 1980) is an American professional beach volleyball player based out of Huntington Beach, California. Patterson and his former teammate, Jake Gibb, were named the USAV Team of the Year as well as AVP Team of the Year for 2013. Casey himself was named AVP Best Offensive Player for 2013. He has had a total of fifteen 1st-place finishes during his professional career.

Patterson and Gibb competed for the United States in beach volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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“Casey Patterson (beach volleyball)” enters the record as uS volleyball and beach volleyball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Casey, Patterson and beach can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2013, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-04-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Casey, Patterson and beach.
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“Casey Patterson (beach volleyball)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Casey, Patterson and beach provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13521858. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 2013 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Casey Patterson (beach volleyball)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.