Tina Graudina | USC Trojans At 2020 Tokyo Olympics

USC senior (political science major)

Jurmala, Latvia

6-1

March 9, 1998

She led USC to the 2021 NCAA women’s beach volleyball championship as its No. 1 player
She made All-American first team in 2018, 2019 and 2021 (there was no 2020 season due to COVID)
She has a 91-8 career record (31-2 in 2018, 33-2 in 2019, 27-4 in 2021)
She and freshman partner Megan Kraft were 15-1 in 2021, dropping just two sets
She was the 2019 National Player of the Year
She was the 2019 and 2021 Pac-12 Player of the Year
She and Abril Bustamante were the 2018 and 2019 National Pair of the Year
She was part of the Pac-12 Pair of the Year in 2019 (with Bustamante) and 2021 (with Kraft)
She was the 2018 National and Pac-12 Freshman of the Year

She and partner Anastasija Kravcenoka qualified for the Olympics in 2019 (becoming the first NCAA collegiate beach volleyball player to qualify for the Olympics)
They will be the first Latvian women’s beach team to appear in the Olympics
She was the 2018 FIVB Rookie of the Year
She and Kravcenoka were the FIVB’s Most Improved team in 2019
They won the 2019 European Championship
They placed a career-best fourth at the FIVB Sochi tournament in May 2021

She competed for six years in track as a heptathlete
Grandfather Arturs Graudins was a Latvian high jump champion, grandmother Stanislava Spruzenieks was a Latvian high jump champion