{"id":322791,"date":"2026-08-17T00:26:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322791\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:26:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:26:56","slug":"lsu-duo-sweeps-all-six-opponents-to-three-peat-at-manhattan-beach-avp-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322791\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU duo sweeps all six opponents to three-peat at Manhattan Beach AVP Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANHATTAN BEACH \u2014 Former Tigers Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz won their third straight Association of Volleyball Professionals Manhattan Beach Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 U.S. Olympians and top-ranked women&#8217;s pro beach volleyball team in the world became the first duo to win three consecutive AVP Manhattan Beach Opens since Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings won four straight from 2005 to 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The duo swept all six of their opponents and took each of the 12 sets by an average of 4.7 points.<\/p>\n<p>Brasher and Cruz started the final day by beating Maddie Anderson and Alaina Chacon 21-18 and 21-15 in the semifinals. They finished the weekend by defeating Kelly Cheng and Megan Kraft 21-18 and 21-16 in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN BEACH \u2014 Former Tigers Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz won their third straight Association of Volleyball Professionals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[121620,121619,74126,68184,2136,121616,121615,121606,121618,75,120820,84,83,121617,121614,9,24,63,121607,20004,1339],"class_list":["post-322791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-2024-olympians","tag-alaina-chacon","tag-avp","tag-beach-volleyball","tag-california","tag-kelly-cheng","tag-kerri-walsh-jennings","tag-kristen-cruz","tag-maddie-anderson","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-beach-open","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-megan-kraft","tag-misty-may-treanor","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-taryn-brasher","tag-tigers","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322791","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=322791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}