Who is Taryn Kloth’s Olympic beach volleyball partner Kristen Nuss and how many tour titles have they won?

BEACH Volleyball stars Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss are a dynamic duo known for their agelong reign of unbeatable play successful satellite competitions.

The brace sadly experienced a monolithic nonaccomplishment astatine the Paris 2024 Olympics - but who is Kloth's different formation volleyball half?

Who is Kristen Nuss?

Kristen Nuss is an American formation volleyball subordinate who competed astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics with Taryn Kloth.

She has competed successful assorted world-class volleyball competitions, including FIVB World Tour/Pro Beach tour.

She and Kloth are ranked No.2 successful the satellite and are the archetypal formation volleyball brace to ever spell for Olympic golden without immoderate transportation to California.

Early Life

Born successful December 1997, Nuss grew up successful New Orleans, Louisiana and is the youngest of 4 children.

Her parents are Audrey and George, and she has 3 older brothers, Pete, Jeffrey and Jordan.

Nuss has ever been a massively talented jock - adjacent successful her aboriginal life.

In precocious school, Nuss led Mount Carmel Academy to 3 indoor volleyball and 2 hoops authorities titles.

Nuss was besides a LHSAA Division I MVP and Gatorade Player of the Year campaigner for indoor volleyball.

Despite her successes successful assorted sports, she knew she wanted to bash formation volleyball.

In 2017 Nuss attended the notorious sports assemblage Louisiana State University, wherever she rapidly recovered her feet successful the formation volleyball satellite with different freshman, Claire Coppola.

The dynamic duo accumulated 9 wins implicit NCAA ranked teams - unbelievably including a whopping 7 against the apical 10 ranked teams.

In their freshman season, they adjacent won 20 of 21 matches, ending with a 27-7 record.

For this, they got named to Volleyballmag.com's All-America team.

After winning assorted championships and awards back-to-back implicit the years, the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and Nuss began to bid with Taryn Kloth.

Kloth was an indoor volleyball subordinate for Creighton who has transferred implicit to LSU.

Together, the Olympians went connected to decorativeness with an unbelievable 36-0 grounds successful 2021 - the 2nd ever squad to implicit an undefeated play and the NCAA title.

Not lone did Nuss decorativeness assemblage with record-breaking stats, she besides graduated with a Bachelor of Science grade successful kinesiology.

The prima besides ended her assemblage vocation with 136 full victories, 3 CCSA Pair of the Year and AVCA All-American awards, 2 USA Volleyball Collegiate Beach Championships and Volleyballmag.com's Player of the Year.

Paris 2024 Olympics

Upon Nuss and Kloth's graduating successful 2021, they instantly turned into nonrecreational formation volleyball players with the aspiration of qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

The brace opted to enactment successful New Orleans alternatively of doing what astir players bash and determination to Southern California.

After assorted awesome Pro Tour wins, the brace qualified for the Olympics.

While initially having an unbeaten run, the pairs streak ended with a 21-19, 21-18 nonaccomplishment to Canada's Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson.

Pro Tour wins

Nuss has a full of 12 medals - 7 of which are gold, 3 metallic and 2 bronze.

After graduating from LSU, she and Kloth struggled to suffice for planetary tournaments earlier getting Gold successful the 2022 BPT Coolangatta Futures.

Nuss and Kloth past gained momentum and bushed the Tokyo Silver Medalists, Australians Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy and were connected way to Gold astatine the 2022 BPT Kusadasi Challenge.

By 2023 the brace won 2 of their archetypal 4 World Tournaments, impressively pursuing those by achieving 3 medals successful 5 tournaments during the European limb of the tour.

Soon Nuss and Cloth were sailing to triumph Gold astatine the World Tour Finals and were unbeatable - reaching the No.2 FIVB ranking and qualifying for the Olympics.