Career
Career
For the past 13 years Dain Blanton has traveled the World representing the USA in Beach Volleyball. Dain became the first ever African American to win an AVP Beach Volleyball tournament in 1997 winning the AVP Hermosa Beach Grand Slam. Dain pushed forward and improved even further going on to bring home the Gold for the USA in Beach Volleyball playing with Eric Fonoimoana in Sydney in 2000. He also return to the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 becoming the first and only male 2-time Olympian from the USA.
Dain is still competing on the AVP tour but is now focusing on the World of Sports Broadcasting where he is currently covering NBA (Clippers, Lakers), MLB (Dodgers, Angels) NCAA hoops and football (USC, UCLA) as well as Volleyball (AVP, FIVB, NCAA) and HS Football.
A New Chapter