So it’s really cool that so many girls are going beach from the get-go, and they’re going to be that much better when they get to college and professional.”Īnd when she was visiting colleges, it was Claes who hosted her and showed her around. ”And people are just choosing that as their sport. There were no beach volleyball clubs in the area now there are 10 or more. Sponcil said that when she was growing up in Phoenix, younger girls would compete indoors in school and maybe have a chance to play on the beach only in the summer. And I think we’re going to make that kind of push back.” With the NCAA, there’s going to be this huge new generation of amazing athletes. And then I think the rest of the world kind of caught up and passed us. has kind of been at the forefront for so long with Misty and Kerri.
”It’s been really cool to see just the pendulum of beach volleyball around the world how it’s kind of shifted,” Claes said. In Rio de Janiero, Walsh Jennings and Ross took bronze for the only American medal – the worst U.S. The Americans hope that by starting on the beach earlier, they can get back to dominating the sport as they did when Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor were winning three straight Olympic gold medals. (Men still don’t have a college beach program in the U.S.) But the varsity beach volleyball program has given Claes, 25, and Sponcil, 24, an option that wasn’t available to their predecessors.
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Since beach volleyball was added to the Olympics in 1996, it has been forced to rely on players who switched over after playing indoors in college and perhaps even beyond in European or Brazilian professional leagues. ”I’m really excited to see just how the sport grows even more because of that.” ”I think a lot of athletes in the U.S., this younger generation is coming up because of the NCAA, which is super exciting,” Claes said after the three-set victory over her fellow Trojan and Anastasija Kravcenoka.
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