{"id":322762,"date":"2026-08-16T23:16:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322762\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:16:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:16:50","slug":"former-lsu-beach-volleyball-duo-wins-in-manhattan-beach-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322762\/","title":{"rendered":"Former LSU beach volleyball duo wins in Manhattan Beach | LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"volley\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full white\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Kristen Nuss Cruz, left, and\u00a0Taryn Kloth Brasher celebrate after a match on Aug. 16, 2025 at the Manhattan Beach Open in Manhattan Beach, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>                                    PROVIDED PHOTO BY AVP<\/p>\n<p>Team TKN is on top once again.<\/p>\n<p>The duo of former LSU beach volleyball All-Americans Kristen (Nuss) Cruz and Taryn (Kloth) Brasher won their third straight title Sunday in the AVP Manhattan Beach Open in California. They defeated fellow Americans Kelly Cheng and Megan Kraft 21-18, 21-16 in the best-of-three set final. Cruz and Brasher did not drop a set in any of their six tournament matches.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Olympians are the first women\u2019s duo to win three straight Manhattan Beach titles since three-time Olympic gold medalists Misty-May Treanor and Kerry Walsh-Jennings won four in a row from 2005-08.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been an incredible season for New Orleans\u2019 Cruz and Brasher, a native of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Coming into the weekend they were tied for third in the world rankings and have three other international wins this season in addition to the AVP tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristen Nuss Cruz, left, and\u00a0Taryn Kloth Brasher celebrate after a match on Aug. 16, 2025 at the Manhattan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-322762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}