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Posted at 11:59 a.m., Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Stanley receives suspended sentence

Advertiser Staff and News Services

ATHENS, Greece — Hawai'i's Clay Stanley of the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team was given a 15-month suspended sentence today for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest.

Stanley, a Kaiser High graduate who played at the University of Hawai'i, said he was drunk at the time and apologized for Sunday's scuffle at a nightclub following the closing ceremony of the Olympics.

Stanley, who lives in Greece and plays for Iraklis Volleyball Club of the Greek professional volleyball league, also was charged with assaulting a pregnant woman during the scuffle but those charges were subsequently dropped.

Stanley's father, Jon, played on the U.S. volleyball team in the 1968 Olympics. The Stanleys were the first father and son to compete in Olympic volleyball.

The U.S. team was swept in its bronze-medal match against Russia on Sunday. Stanley had 10 kills and two aces in the loss and finished Olympic play seventh in points with 110 and second in aces with 17.

The Americans finished 4-4 and had its highest finish in a dozen years.

Stanley played for UH until 1999 and joined the national team in 2000. He did not play volleyball in high school because Kaiser did not have a volleyball team.

Associated Press contributed to this report.