Bio

One of the best beach volleyball players in history and a hall of famer, Swartz attended El Camino College in the late 1960s and was a member of the Co-ed six-person volleyball championship squad. He was a two-time conference most valuable player and also assisted John Taylor to two titles after his playing time at ECC. On the beach, Swartz was a 10-time Open champion with partners such as Matt Gage, Bob Jackson and Ron Von Hagen. Swartz and Gage won the Manhattan Beach Open in 1972, the crown jewel of his four victories that year. He would also post multiple wins in 1974, scoring three victories with two of them coming with Gage. Swartz was inducted into the California Beach Volleyball Association Hall of Fame in 2013.