{"id":5679,"date":"2013-01-23T09:10:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2013-03-27T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:13:31","slug":"camosun-alumnus-olympic-athlete-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/01\/23\/camosun-alumnus-olympic-athlete-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun alumnus Olympic athlete, model"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Martin Reader is a rare breed: an athlete who doubles as a model (photo by Kevin Kinisky).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Martin Reader went from playing varsity beach<\/del> volleyball at Camosun to playing Olympic beach volleyball in London. He accomplished what very few people do in their lifetime: he represented Canada in the Olympic games. Yet Reader recently retired from volleyball to focus on marketing and raising awareness of the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada has no shortage of fantastic athletes, but I think people are catching on to the sport too late,\u201d says Reader, \u201cand by the time they catch on, their goals are set in other occupations. But we can start inspiring kids to pick up and start playing volleyball earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the 27-year-old Reader–who lives in Toronto–recently retired from the physical side of the sport, he hasn\u2019t left volleyball altogether. For example, he went on a tour across Canada in hopes of promoting beach volleyball to Canadians.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can do more for the sport being an ambassador for it in the business world,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

People often second-guess themselves during their pursuit of their goals, and Reader says that athletes go through the same sort of self-questioning. He always knew he loved volleyball, but it wasn\u2019t until he captained the Camosun Chargers that he discovered he would take his passion to the next level.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy second year at Camosun was when I really realized volleyball is something I could excel at on an international scale,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Apart from sports, Reader promotes the idea of eating well and living a healthy lifestyle. Interestingly, he also models in his spare time (more on that later).<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so much happening in my life outside of sports that\u2019s so exciting. I believe I can achieve more outside of the sand,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Reader is an ambassador for the 60 Minute Kids\u2019 Club charity, which, he says, \u201ceducates kids on making positive lifestyle, health, and physical choices, and prepares kids so they don\u2019t suffer from obesity.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the time being, Reader plans on keeping busy in other ways. He will become a trainer with a high-end hotel in Toronto–where he will train executives in goal setting and achievement–and he will also focus on his entrepreneurial goals with his own training business.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m starting a business,\u201d he says, \u201cStrive Conditioning and Nutrition. And I\u2019ll be doing highest-end consulting for the Shangri-La hotel fitness and wellness center.\u201d<\/p>\n

Between his stints at the hotel and brainstorming business plans, Reader will still be pursuing his side hobby of modeling.<\/p>\n

Well, he\u2019ll be pursuing it as much as he can, given that he is actually considered too tall for the gig.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a model, 6\u20195\u201d is as tall as you\u2019re really going to get,\u201d he says. \u201c6\u20197\u201d is an absolute inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Martin Reader went from playing varsity beach volleyball at Camosun to playing Olympic beach volleyball in London. He accomplished what very few people do in their lifetime: he represented Canada in the Olympic games. Yet Reader recently retired from volleyball to focus on marketing and raising awareness of the sport. \u201cCanada has no shortage of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-january-23-1013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}