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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.
Cheng has since reunited with Hughes, her former teammate at USC. The pair helped lead USC to the inaugural NCAA beach volleyball championships in 2016 and 2017, including an undefeated 36-0 ...
Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng lost 2-0 to Switzerland's Tanja Hueberli and Nina Brunner on Tuesday, one day after the duo of Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss fell in the round of 16, 2-0, to Canada's ...
May 21, 2023 at 11:21 PM. The top-seeded team of Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes won the AVP Huntington Beach Open Pro Series beach volleyball women’s competition in two sets Sunday, winning 21-18 ...
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.
Sara Hughes February 14, 1995 (age 29) 5 ft 10 in (1.79 m) Costa Mesa, California: USC: Alix Klineman December 30, 1989 (age 34) 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Manhattan Beach, California: Stanford: Taryn Kloth April 10, 1997 (age 27) 6 ft 4 in (1.92 m) Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Creighton/LSU: Kelley Larsen Kolinske
The women's tournament of the 2023 Beach Volleyball World Championships was held from 6 to 15 October 2023. [1]Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng won their first tile after defeating Ana Patrícia Ramos and Eduarda Santos Lisboa in the final, while Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth won the bronze medal.
But instead of enjoying competition against the world’s best, the U.S. beach volleyball star felt dread. “Every match, every point, every contact on the ball felt like life or death,” she said.