Kawika Shoji Going to Poland

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Kawika Shoji sporting the red and white of his new club.

After taking Gi Group Monza through a thrilling ride of the 5th Place Playoffs (after finishing the regular season in 10th position) and qualifying his team for European competition in the form of the CEV Challenge Cup, Kawika Shoji will be on his way to the Polish PlusLiga.  Shoji will be setting for the prestigious Asseco Resovia.  Resovia has won 3 PlusLiga titles, their latest coming in 2015 when fellow Americans Russell Holmes and Paul Lotman defeated Lotos Trefl Gdansk with Murphy Troy (the league's leading scorer that year).    This past season Resovia finished the regular season in 4th position and in 6th place after the playoffs when they were knocked out of in the quarterfinals by Indykpol AZS Olsztyn and lost the 5th place classification series to Jastrzebski Wegiel.  

 This is Shoji's first job in Poland.  He started his professional career after competing at the collegiate ranks at Stanford.  After winning an NCAA Championship he spent his rookie season in Finland with Isku Volley.  He played his next 4 seasons in the German Bundesliga with the Berlin Recycling Volleys, winning 3 domestic titles and a bronze medal in the CEV Champions League.  The next two seasons were spent in Turkey and Russia with Arkas Izmir and Lokomotiv Novosibirsk.   

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