Michel F. Bolle

Michel F. Bolle (born 24 April 1970) is a former Swiss volleyball player and currently a volleyball coach and executive.

Life and career Bolle grew up as a son of an industrial family in Hedingen and Kerzers. As a child, he was a soccer player and cyclist. At the age of 14, he started to play volleyball at VBC Kerzers Volleyball Club.

After finishing elementary school, he signed a professional contract with the team of VBC Leysin (the former team of the American College of Switzerland in Leysin). With the Leysin, he won the Swiss championship three times (1988-1990) and won the Swiss Cup four times (1988–1991). From 1991 to 1997, Bolle played with the Lausanne University team (LUC) and won the Swiss championship yet another four times (1992–1995). With LUC he also won the Swiss Cup in 1995. During this period Bolle was a member first of the Swiss Junior National Team and later, for many years, part of the Elite National Team.

In 2000, Bolle retired as an active player and became a volleyball coach at VBC Ecublens.

Bolle has coached the Swiss first division (NLA) men teams of Lausanne UC and Seat Volley Naefels,