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Olympic beach volleyball puts college stars on display
By JIMMY GOLENJuly 26, 2021 GMT
TOKYO (AP) Beach volleyball’s future was on display at the Shiokaze Park venue Monday morning for the Olympic debut of Americans Kelly Claes and Sarah Sponcil.
Three of the four players in the U.S. victory over Latvia came up through an NCAA beach volleyball program that has only been around since 2012. Claes and Latvia’s Tina Graudina both went to Southern California, and Sponcil played at rival UCLA. (USC coach Dain Blanton, the 2000 Olympic gold medalist, was courtside working for NBC.)
For previous generations like the other U.S. women’s team, 39-year-old April Ross and her 31-year-old partner Alix Klineman college beach volleyball was not an option.