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Tina Graudina

Tina Graudina

Sport

Beach Volleyball

Country

Latvia

USC Affiliation

Lettered 2018-22

Olympic Experience

'20

AT USC

· Four-year starter at USC

· Two-time NCAA champion (2021-22)

· Two-time Pac-12 champion (2019, ’22)

· Four-time AVCA All-American (2018-19, ’21-22)

· 2022 AVCA National Pair of the Year (with Hailey Harward)

· Four-time AVCA National Pair of the Week winner

· Four-time AVCA Top Flight Award winner

· 2019 DiG Magazine National Player of the Year

· 2018 DiG Magazine National Freshman of the Year

· Three-time Volleyball Magazine All-American (2018-19, ‘21)

· Two-time Volleyball Magazine Pair of the Year (2018-19, with Abril Bustamante)

· Three-time Pac-12 Pair of the Year (2019 with Bustamante; 2021-22 with Megan Kraft)

· Three-time Pac-12 Player of the Year (2019, 2021-22)

· 2018 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year

· 2022 Pac-12 Tom Hansen Medal Award Winner

· Four-time Pac-12 All-Conference choice (2018-19, ’21-22)

· Eight-time Pac-12 Pair of the Week winner

· Three-time NCAA All-Tournament Team selection

· Two-time Pac-12 All-Academic Team choice

· Compiled 122 career collegiate victories to rank 10th all-time at USC

PRO and INTERNATIONAL

· Qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Games with Anastasija Samoilova with a win at the 2019 Olympic Qualifier and finished fourth in final Tokyo standings

· Qualified for the 2024 Paris Games with Samoilova and are the eighth-ranked pair in the world in the FIVB rankings

· Played in four AVP events and won the 2022 Fort Lauderdale championship with Hailey Harward

· Played in 64 FIVB events with two first-place finishes (2023, ’24 with Samoilova)

· 2018 FIVB Rookie of the Year

· 2019 FIVB Most Improved Team (with Samoilova)

· Eight-career victories in pro events


FAST FACTS

· Grandfather Arturs Graudinš was a Latvian champion in the 100-meter hurdles

· Grandmother Stanislava Spruženieks was a Latvian champion in the high jump

· Also competed prior to college in six years of track and field as a heptathlete

· Was the first-ever collegiate beach volleyball athlete to qualify for the Olympics

· USC’s second four-time beach volleyball All-American

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