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| Full name | Alexandra Rose Klineman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1989-12-30)December 30, 1989 (age 35) Manhattan Beach, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Outside hitter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexandra Rose "Alix" Klineman (born December 30, 1989) is an Americanbeach volleyball player,2020 Summer Olympics gold medalist, and former indoorvolleyball player.
In high school she was the 2006Gatorade National Player of the Year. She was a four-timeAll-American in volleyball atStanford University, and the 2010Volleyball Magazine national player of the year. She won abronze medal with Team USA at the2011 Pan American Games.
Switching to beach volleyball, she was named part of the 2018 Association of Volleyball Professionals Team of the Year (along withApril Ross), and individually honored with the 2018 and 2019 Best Blocker awards.
Klineman was born inTorrance, California, to Mike and Kathie Klineman, raised inManhattan Beach, California, and isJewish.[1][3][4][5] She has an older brother, Max, and a sister, Maddy.[1][6] She is 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) in height.[1]
Klineman graduated fromMira Costa High School inManhattan Beach, California in 2007. She was named the 2005 and 2006 California Gatorade State Player of the Year for Volleyball, and the 2006Gatorade National Player of the Year.[7] She was also the 2004 and 2006 California State Championship most valuable player, PrepVolleyball.com 2004 Sophomore Player of the Year and 2006 Senior Player of the Year, and a three-time PrepVolleyball.com High School All-American.[1] She led Mira Costa to three consecutive California State Championships, and three consecutiveSouthern Section CIF Championships.[1] In indoor volleyball, Klineman is an outside hitter.
She played indoor college women'svolleyball atStanford University for theStanford Cardinal women's volleyball team in 2007–2010.[6][1] She was the 2010Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year as a college senior, a multiAmerican Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-American, thePac-10 Conference Player of the Year, and an All-Conference selection all four years.[7] Klineman was also the AVCA National Freshman of the Year, leading the Cardinal to theNCAA Finals, and she made the NCAA All-Tournament Team.[7] She finished her college career second at Stanford and fifth all-time in Pac-10 history with 2,008 kills.[1] In 2010 she ranked second in the US with 5.55 kills per set and 6.25 points per set,[1]
She was on the USA Junior National Women's Volleyball Team and a member of the United States women's national volleyball team.[7] She helped the U.S. Girls' Youth National Team win a gold medal at the 2004North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA) Girls' Youth Continental Championship, and a gold medal at the 2006 NORCECA Women's Junior Continental Championship. Klineman was a training member of theUnited States women's national volleyball team.[8] She won abronze medal with the US involleyball at the 2011 Pan American Games.[7][1]
She also played volleyball in Italy from 2011 to 2015 forVolley Pesaro,Gruppo Sportivo Oratorio Villa Cortese, andAGIL Volley Novara, and withPraia Clube in Brazil for two years.[6][9][10]
Klineman served a 13-month ban from May 2013 to June 2014 for an anti-doping rule violation for use of anabolic androgenic steroids relating to unintentional ingestion of her mother'sDHEA supplement.[11][12]
In 2017, Klineman left indoor volleyball to focus on beach volleyball full-time, and was named theAssociation of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) Rookie of the Year.[13][14] At the end of 2017, Klineman andApril Ross became beach volleyball partners.[13] In November 2017, Klineman received a "no fault or negligence" ruling after testing positive for prohibited substances as they were contained within contaminated prescription medication.[15]
Klineman and Ross won theFIVB Dela Beach Open in January 2018, which was the first tournament they played together.[16] During the2018 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour, Klineman and Ross won four tournament events: the Austin Open, theManhattan Beach Open, the Championships (in Chicago), and the Hawaii Invitational.[17] In mid-October 2018, Klineman and Ross won their second FIVB tournament event, earning the gold medal over Brazil at the Yangzhou Open.[18] Klineman was named part of the AVP Team of the Year (along with April Ross), and individually honored with the Best Blocker and Most Improved Player awards at the AVP Award Banquet that November.[19]
In 2019, Klineman's success with Ross continued as they won theHuntington Beach and New York City Open AVP tour events,[20][21] and won the FIVB Itapema Open mid-May.[22] They also won the silver medal at the2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships inHamburg, Germany.[23][24] Klineman was again named Best Blocker.[25]
In July 2020, the two won the AVP Monster Hydro Cup and the Wilson Cup, and in August they won the AVP Champions Cup.[25][23][26]
On August 6, 2021, Klineman and Ross captured the gold medal at the2020 Summer Olympics, after winning in straight sets versus Australia. In the entire tournament, they went undefeated in match play, only losing one set throughout seven matches.[27] Two weeks later, the pair won the AVP Manhattan Beach Open, their second time winning this tournament together.[28]
Silver medal, withAGIL Volley. Silver medal, withDentil Praia Clube. Silver medal, withDentil Praia Clube.
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