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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.
Kelly Cheng reached a career milestone when she competed in her first Olympics at the Tokyo Games. But instead of enjoying competition against the world’s best, the U.S. beach volleyball star ...
The medal hopes of a previously unbeaten U.S. women's beach volleyball team vanished on Sunday in the most maddening way imaginable. Sarah Sponcil and Kelly Claes appeared to have won a pivotal ...
After partnering with Kelly Claes, her results improved over the next two years, highlighted by three more NORCECA titles and two AVP semifinal appearances. [ 30 ] Their breakthrough came in June 2016, when Hughes and Claes narrowly lost to Olympians April Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings with a score of 21–17, 18–21, 15–17 [ 30 ] in the ...
But Cheng secured the match with a kill at the net for the 2-1 (21-18, 17-21, 15-12) USA win. Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng defeat Italy to ADVANCE to the quarterfinals! 🇺🇸📈
Sponcil joined the AVP in 2018, partnering with former USC Trojan Kelly Cheng. Sponcil and Cheng quickly rose through the ranks, winning two consecutive FIVB World Tour titles in early 2021 and qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics. [2] Sponcil has partnered successfully with a handful of players in off-season play and on the AVP and FIVB Tours.
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 ...
The Manhattan Beach Open is a beach volleyball tournament held annually during the summer in Manhattan Beach, California.Held on the south side of the Manhattan Beach Pier, the Open is the only professional volleyball tournament in which amateurs are able to "place into" the event through pre-qualifying rounds.