# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-schachter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:17:41.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-schachter"
name: "Sam Schachter"
slug: "sam-schachter"
description: "Samuel Schachter is a Canadian Olympic beach volleyball player. In 2010 he won the FIVB World Junior (U-21) Championship with Garrett May. He and partner Josh Binstock were 2014 Canadian national champions, and represented Canada at the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, he and Binstock earned silver medals. He competed with partner Daniel Dearing at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Men's tournament. In 2025 he partnered with Jonny Pickett and they recently competed together in the FIVB World Championships in Adelaide, Australia where they finished a strong 17th after a loss to number 1 seeds from Norway."
tagline: "Canadian beach volleyball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/20170730_Beach_Volleyball_WM_Vienna_3808.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1990-05-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.46
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.539669333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/samschachter/"
    handle:    "samschachter"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/schachtervolleyball"
    handle:    "schachtervolleyball"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schachter"
    title: "Sam Schachter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schachter"
    title: "Sam Schachter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schachter"
    title: "Sam Schachter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schachter"
    title: "Sam Schachter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schachter"
    title: "Sam Schachter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schachter"
    title: "Sam Schachter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schachter"
    title: "Sam Schachter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19308413"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump