{"id":322908,"date":"2026-08-17T05:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322908\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T05:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:54:20","slug":"lsu-greats-taryn-brasher-and-kristen-cruz-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322908\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU Greats Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz Make History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LSU greats Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz make history at AVP Manhattan Beach Open<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdsu.com\/news-team\/adf147ed-6f9a-44ef-b3ba-682e70add8f8\" aria-label=\"Fletcher Mackel profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/adf147ed-6f9a-44ef-b3ba-682e70add8f8_1651097418.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Fletcher Mackel\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Two-time defending champions Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz made AVP history Sunday by three-peating at the AVP Manhattan Beach Open.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The 2024 U.S. Olympians and top-ranked women\u2019s pro beach volleyball team in the world became the first duo to capture three consecutive AVP Manhattan Beach Opens since Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings accomplished the feat by winning four straight from 2005-08.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Brasher and Cruz dominated the competition, sweeping all six of their opponents and won each of the 12 sets by an average of 4.7 points.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The dynamic duo from Louisiana State University opened Sunday by dispatching Maddie Anderson and Alaina Chacon 21-18 and 21-15 in the semis. Brasher and Cruz then capped the monumental weekend by dispatching of Kelly Cheng and Megan Kraft 21-18 and 21-16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU greats Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz make history at AVP Manhattan Beach Open MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[121667,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-322908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-lsu-greats-taryn-brasher-and-kristen-cruz-make-history-sunday-at-avp-manhattan-beach-open","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\/322908","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=322908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}