Elaine Youngs

Elaine Youngs
Elaine Youngs 2010
portrait
birthday	February 14, 1970
place of birth	Orange (California), United States
size	1.83 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Acceptance / outside
National team
1993-1997	A national team
successes
1994 - sixth at the World Cup. 1996 - seventh at the Olympics
beach volleyball
partner	1997 - Elizabeth Masakayan 1998 - Nancy Reno 1999–2000 - Elizabeth Masakayan 2000 - Nancy Reno 2001 - Barbra Fontana 2002–2004 - Holly McPeak 2005–2006 - Rachel Wacholder 2006–2009 - Nicole Branagh 2010 - Rachel Wacholder
successes
1997 - WPVA Rookie of the Year 1997 - fifth in 1999 - third in 2001 - fourth in 2002 - AVP best blocker 2002 - AVP best attacking player 2002 - MVP of the AVP tour 2003 - fifth in 2004 - third in 2007 - Fifth of the World Championships in 2008 - Fifth of the Olympics in 2009 - Fifth of the World Championships in 2009 - AVP Team of the Year
As of April 4, 2011

Elaine Clara Marie Hermenia Youngs (born February 14, 1970 in Orange , California ) is a former American beach volleyball and volleyball player .

Career hall

At El Toro High School in Lake Forest , California, Elaine Youngs began playing volleyball at the age of fifteen. There she was voted All-American for the first time . She received this award four times during her studies at UCLA . Previously, only two female students at any university in the United States had succeeded. In 1991 Young won the final of the NCAA Championship with the Bruins . In the following year, she and her team reached the final again at the end of their studies. From 1993 to 1997, the native Californian was a member of the US national team , with which she reached sixth place at the 1994 World Cup after losing to the German team . Two years later, the Americans returned the favor at the Olympic Games in the game for seventh place. Then Elaine Youngs played one season each in the Italian and Turkish first division.

Career Beach

In 1997, Elaine Youngs began her beach volleyball career with Elizabeth Masakayan , with whom she competed in tournaments at both the Women's Professional Volleyball Association and the FIVB . The best placings were two first places in Dallas and Hawaii . At the first World Cup , the Americans finished fifth. After a third place with the new partner Nancy Reno as the best result in the following year , Youngs switched back to her first partner at the end of the year. In 1999 and 2000 the two former UCLA graduates won a total of eight tournaments in various series ( AVP Pro Beach Tour, FIVB World Tour , USA Volleyball and Beach Volleyball America). At the 1999 World Cup , the Californians won the bronze medal. 2001 Barbra Fontana and Elaine Youngs formed a new beach team. The two North Americans reached the semi-finals at fourteen events during the year, winning the tournaments in Clearwater , Cagliari , Marseille and Manhattan Beach , were in the final four times, finished third five times and came fourth at the World Cup in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee .

The following year, Youngs competed again with a different partner. With Holly McPeak she won the first four AVP tournaments of the season and added another success after two second places. The two Americans also won the FIVB tournaments in Stavanger , Marseille, Rhodes and Vitória . After they had only managed one victory in San Diego in 2003 and they had finished the world championship in fifth place, their collaboration ended in 2004 with the greatest mutual success, the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Athens , and another six victorious competitions.

In 2005, Elaine Youngs and Rachel Wacholder reached podiums at all thirteen events on the AVP Tour. The two Californians were eight times in the final and three times they emerged as winners. In addition, they were the only team that managed to defeat Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor in the American domestic round this season . A year later, the cooperation between Youngs and Wacholder ended with two wins and four second and four third places at AVP events. After a final in Manhattan Beach with Nancy Reynolds and a third place with Nicole Branagh , Youngs managed to reach at least the semifinals of a total of 59 AVP tournaments in series with permanent partners. With Branagh, the 2006 UCLA Hall of Fame athlete achieved seven successes in 2007 and 2008; this also included the first joint FIVB title in Barcelona . In the following year, the two Americans started with 13 finals in the AVP Pro Beach Tour, of which they won nine finals. As in 2007 , they finished fifth at the 2009 World Cup . In addition, the Californians managed to win the silver medal at the last joint FIVB tournament.

In 2010, Elaine Youngs only took part in the Pro Beach Tour, again with her former partner Wacholder, who has been called Rachel Scott since their wedding. The two could not win a tournament by the end of the AVP, but took two second and four third places as well as a fifth place in the last seven events before the financial breakdown of the organization.

Private life

The mother Carolyn gave her daughter four different first names. Elaine was the name of a cousin who died in a car accident, Clara was the maternal grandmother, Marie was an aunt and Hermenia was the great grandmother. In addition to volleyball, Elaine Youngs also played basketball very successfully during her school and university days . In high school, she was recognized as an All-American in this discipline. At UCLA, the versatile athlete was represented in the university team in two seasons, but Youngs had to end the second season early to undergo surgery for a cartilage damage in his left knee. The student graduated from university with a degree in history.

Web links

• Elaine Youngs in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile at beachvolleyball.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://usavolleyball.org/athletes/elaine-youngs
2. ↑ http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/ucla/sports/w-volley/auto_pdf/AlumniSpotlight.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Player.asp?ID=1189&Page=6
4. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Player.asp?ID=1189&Page=7
5. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Player.asp?ID=1189&Page=8
6. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Player.asp?ID=1189&Page=9
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.