Elaine Youngs
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 the El Toro High School in Lake Forest, California Elaine Youngs started with the game of volleyball at the age of fifteen. She was first elected to the All-American. This award she received four times during her studies at UCLA. Previously this was only two students succeeded in all the universities of the United States. 1991 Young won the Bruins the final of the NCAA Championship. The following year, she reached the finals again with her team at the end of their period of study. From 1993 to 1997, the California native of the U.S. national team was a member, with which she finished sixth at the 1994 World Cup after a defeat against the German team. Two years later, the Americans got their revenge at the Olympic Games in the match for seventh place. Then played Elaine Youngs still a season in the Italian and in the Turkish first division.
Career Beach
1997 Elaine Youngs began her career in beach volleyball with Elizabeth Masakayan with which they played tournaments in both the Women's Professional Volleyball Association as well as at the FIVB. Best Placements were two first places in Dallas and Hawaii. At the first World Cup, the U.S. women occupied the shared fifth place. After the following year with the new partner Nancy Reno a third place was seen as the best result, Youngs moved end of the year to their first partner. 1999 and 2000 won the two former graduates of the UCLA total of eight tournaments in different series (AVP Pro Beach Tour, FIVB World Tour, USA Volleyball and Beach Volleyball America ). At the World Cup 1999 Kalifornierinnen won the bronze medal. 2001 Barbra Fontana and Elaine Youngs formed a new Beach team. Fourteen events of the year, the two North Americans reached the semi-finals, while they won the Tournament of Clearwater, Cagliari, Marseille and Manhattan Beach, stood another four times in the final, occupied five times third place and finished fourth at the World Championships in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee.
The following year, Young stepped in again with another partner. With Holly McPeak she won in the first four AVP tournaments of the season and added after two second places added another success. The FIVB tournaments in Stavanger, Marseille, Rhodes and Vitória won the two U.S. women. Having them just one win in San Diego was succeeded in 2003 and they finished in fifth place, the World Cup, ended in 2004 their cooperation with the largest mutual success, the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Athens, and another six victorious disputed competitions.
2005 Elaine Youngs and Rachel Wacholder reached in all thirteen events of the AVP Tour podium. The two Kalifornierinnen were eight times in the final and they went three times as the winner of it. Moreover, they succeeded as the only team this season to defeat in the domestic U.S. round Kerri Walsh and Misty May- Treanor. A year later, the cooperation of Youngs and Wacholder with two wins and four second and third places ended at AVP events. After the final in Manhattan Beach with Nancy Reynolds and a third place with Nicole Branagh it was Youngs managed to reach at least the semifinals in 59 AVP tournaments in series with fixed partners. With Branagh which is incorporated into the UCLA Hall of Fame 2006 athlete reached seven hits in the years 2007 and 2008; This included also the first joint FIVB title in Barcelona. The following year, the two U.S. women started with 13 runners-up in the AVP Pro Beach Tour, of which they won nine finals. As in 2007, they finished in fifth place at the World Cup 2009. In addition, the Kalifornierinnen succeeded in the last common FIVB tournament winning the silver medal.
Elaine Youngs 2010 occurred only in the Pro Beach Tour, again with her former partner, juniper, which means since their wedding Rachel Scott. The two could not win more tournament until the end of AVP indeed, but occupied two second and four third places and a fifth in the last seven events before the financial ruin of the organization.
Private life
The mother gave her daughter Carolyn four different first name. Elaine was a cousin, who was killed in a car accident, Clara was the maternal grandmother, an aunt Marie and Hermenia the great-grandmother. In addition to volleyball Elaine Youngs played during their school and university even very successful basketball. So she was awarded in high school in this discipline as an All - American. In the UCLA versatile athlete was represented in two seasons with the University team, but the second season had Youngs finish early in order to be operated on a cartilage damage in his left knee. The student completed the university with a diploma in history.