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Sara Elizabeth Hughes (born February 14, 1995) [4] is an American beach volleyball player. With teammate Kelly Cheng she achieved a career-high world ranking of No. 2 in August 2023. Hughes has won six tournaments on the AVP Pro Tour and seven gold medals, one silver medal, and three bronze medals on the FIVB World Tour/Pro Beach Tour .
Kelly Marie Cheng (née Claes, born September 18, 1995) is an American beach volleyball player. She and her partner Sara Hughes won the bronze medal at the 2013 U19 World Championships, the silver medal at the 2014 U21 World Championships, the gold medal at the 2023 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships and back-to-back NCAA Championships in 2016 and 2017.
Summer Ross (born December 20, 1992) [1] is an American beach volleyball player. She was the FIVB 2010 Youth Under-19 and Junior Under-21 world champion, the only player to win both titles in the same year and was named 2010 USA Volleyball Beach Female Athlete of the Year. As of 2018, her partner is Sara Hughes. [3]
Photos from the 2022 AVP Manhattan Beach Open, which featured a championship victory by Sara Hughes and Kelley Kolinske.
Down 10-13 in the third set, Sara Hughes and Kelley Kolinske went on a 5-0 run to earn their first AVP Manhattan Beach Open titles.
Cheng — who won a gold medal with Sara Hughes at the world championships last year — says she’s taking matters into her own hands by blocking anything that threatens her mental health.
She was an accomplished beach volleyball player from a young age, partnering with Sara Hughes and appearing on "Volleyball" magazine covers at age 12, after winning a prestigious beach volleyball California tournament. She was the youngest female to ever earn an AAA rating in beach volleyball. [2]
Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes rally from a 12-4 deficit in the second set to defeat Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles for the AVP Huntington Beach Open crown.