Kelly Cheng - Olympic Beach Volleyball player on preparing for Paris 2024 and rooting her identity in Christ
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4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Kelly Cheng is a beach volleyball player with Team USA. She and her partner, Sara Hughes, won the gold medal at the 2023 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, establishing them as medal contenders for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Cheng competed in the 2020-21 Tokyo Games with Sarah Sponcil, finishing in ninth place.
Though they’ve spent time with other partners, Cheng and Hughes have a long, winning history together. They claimed the bronze medal at the 2013 U19 World Championships, silver at the 2014 U21 World Championships, and back-to-back NCAA championships in 2016 and 2017 in college at USC.
Cheng was named the AVP Tour’s Most Valuable Player in 2022, and the tour’s Best Offensive Player in 2022 and 2023.
Today on the podcast, Kelly Cheng shares about her journey with Jesus, reading the Bible in a year, preparing for the Paris Games, and her experience of participating in the Tokyo Olympics
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, today on Sports Spectrum, we're getting ready for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. |
| 0:07.8 | And Kelly Chang is going to join us here today. She was a 2020 Olympian. She's a beach volleyball |
| 0:14.1 | player and a member of Team USA. She graduated from college at USC in 2017. Her career in college, well, let's just say it was |
| 0:24.1 | pretty good. She was a three-time, All-American and had an incredible run in college. I mean, listen to |
| 0:32.0 | this. She was 147 and 4 with her partner, Sarah Hughes Hughes when they played together at USC. |
| 0:39.2 | And she led them to two NCAA titles in 2016 and 17. |
| 0:43.4 | Needless to say, USC is still winning titles as they won the 2024 title as well. |
| 0:49.1 | And Kelly Chang was a part of that 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo with Sarah Sponsal. |
| 0:54.8 | Now she's back partnering with her college teammate Sarah Hughes and preparing for the Summer Olympics. |
| 1:01.3 | It's just a couple weeks away. |
| 1:03.3 | And no better person to talk to Kelly Chang than my colleague and partner, John Ackerman, |
| 1:08.6 | who is our managing editor here at Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:11.7 | He's in charge of all things with the magazine, Sports Spectrum magazine, as well as the |
| 1:15.9 | Sports Spectrum website and the Sports Spectrum app. And let's just say this was an awesome |
| 1:21.9 | conversation about volleyball and the Olympics and the pursuit of excellence, but even more about Kelly's journey |
| 1:29.2 | with Christ. And she shares some incredible stories. It's coming up in just a moment. But first, |
| 1:35.8 | I want to tell you all about the things that we are excited about here at Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:40.0 | We got a lot of cool things coming down the pipe, including a brand new sports spectrum |
| 1:46.0 | redesigned website, a brand new sports spectrum app, a brand new sports spectrum podcast show, |
| 1:54.3 | which we're excited to announce soon. |
| 1:56.4 | We'll give you all the details. |
| 1:58.0 | And of course, our Sports Spectrum magazine, the brand new fall |
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