Karsta Lowe
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Full name | Karsta Frances Lowe | ||||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||
Born | San Diego, California, U.S. | February 2, 1993||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Rancho Santa Fe, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
Spike | 315 cm (124 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Block | 305 cm (120 in) | ||||||||||||||||
College / University | UCLA | ||||||||||||||||
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Position | Opposite | ||||||||||||||||
Current club | JT Marvelous | ||||||||||||||||
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Karsta Frances Lowe (born February 2, 1993) is an American volleyball player who was a First Team All-American at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and, as a member of the United States women's national volleyball team, won the gold medal at the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix and was honored as the Most Valuable Player and the bronze medal at the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics. She has played professionally in Puerto Rico, Italy and China.
Career
College
She played college women's volleyball at UCLA.[1] During her career at UCLA she made the First Team All-American.[2]
International
Lowe was a member of the United States women's national volleyball team which won the gold medal at the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix and she was awarded Most Valuable Player and the bronze medal at the 2015 World Cup and at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.[3]
By 2019, she played for Imoco Volley in Italy. After the 2016 Summer Olympics, she went back to school, earning a masters in Landscape Architecture from University of Southern California. The USC Trojans' women's volleyball department hired her as an assistant coach in December 2020. In February-March 2021, she participated in the inaugural season of Athletes Unlimited, a professional volleyball league in the United States. She finished 5th among all scorers with 3,566 total points.[4]
Lowe will play with Japanese club JT Marvelous in the 2022–2023 season.[5]
References
- ^ "Karsta Lowe - Women's Volleyball".
- ^ "Karsta Lowe Accepts AVCA First Team All-America Award". UCLA Bruins. Archived from the original on March 1, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
- ^ "Karsta Lowe Wins Bronze at Rio Olympics". UCLA Athletics. August 20, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ^ "AU Pro Sports - 2021 Leaderboard". Retrieved August 24, 2021.
- ^ "新加入選手のお知らせ". Retrieved July 1, 2022.
External links
- 1993 births
- Living people
- American women's volleyball players
- UCLA Bruins women's volleyball players
- Opposite hitters
- Volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in volleyball
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Expatriate volleyball players in China
- Expatriate volleyball players in Italy
- Expatriate volleyball players in Japan
- American expatriate sportspeople in China
- American expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- American expatriate sportspeople in Japan
- Volleyball players from San Diego