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Gabrielle Allyse Reece (born January 6, 1970) is an American professional volleyball player, sports announcer, and fashion model.

Reece was born in La Jolla, California as an only child to a mother from Long Island, New York, and an Afro-Trinidadian father - who died in a plane crash when she was five years old. She was raised in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and she returned to the U.S. mainland for the eleventh grade, when she took up sports.

She accepted a volleyball scholarship from the Florida State University, where she majored in communications, and in volleyball she led the league in kills four times and blocks once. In 1989, she moved to model in New York City. In 1997, she was selected for induction into the Florida State University Athletic Hall of Fame. Reece set two school volleyball records in solo blocks (240) and total blocks (747). Both records still stand. FSU inducted Reece into the Florida State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997.