Trojan volleyball has seen success from all corners of the world this summer, as former, current and future USC athletes compete internationally in the offseason. From Toronto to Portugal to Russia, Trojan athletes are competing to stay at the top of their game.
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Lucas Yoder and Sara Hughes, both incoming freshmen, won bronze medals with their partners at the FIVB U19 World Championship in Porto, Portugal in early July.
Kirby Burnham, who as a junior last spring won the AVCA National Pairs Championship with Stevi Robinson, teamed with Meg Norton of UCLA to finish second at the Ontario Volleyball Association Grand Slam in Toronto. Robinson placed ninth at the World University Games in Russia last week with her partner Caitlin Ledoux of Long Beach State. Anna Collier, the USC women's sand volleyball coach was on the USA coaching staff at the World University Games.
April Ross, silver medalist at the 2012 London Olympics with fellow Trojan Jennifer Kessy, played for the first time with new partner Kerri Walsh Jennings, the three-time Olympic gold medalist, and placed ninth at the FIVB tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland, on July 14.
