Women’s Beach Volleyball | August 04, 2023
LOS ANGELES – The three-time defending NCAA champion USC beach volleyball team has signed four graduate transfers set to join the Women of Troy for the 2024 season, head coach Dain Blanton announced on Friday, August 4.
The Trojans will welcome Grace Seits (Ramona, Calif./Ramona HS) from LSU, Maddi Kriz (Austin, Texas/Round Rock Westwood HS) from Stanford, Ainsley Radell (Moraga, Calif./Monte Vista HS) from California, and Emily Fitzner (San Diego, Calif./Torrey Pines HS) from Indiana.
“We’re looking forward to the arrival of these four talented beach volleyball student-athletes,” said Blanton. “It’s no secret that USC is an incredible academic and athletic university and we’ve been fortunate to be able to attract some of the best graduate transfers in the nation to join our roster. Grace, Maddi, Ainsley, and Emily are proven athletes and will bolster the depth of our program. We’re excited to get them on the sand and to see where they can help take our program this season.”
Seits has won 60-career matches and was chosen to the CCSA All-Tournament Team in May after going 3-0 with partner Parker Bracken. She completed her season with a 26-10 mark—including a 21-9 record at the No. 2 position with Bracken—to follow a junior campaign in 2022 where she was 27-11 and earned AVCA Top Flight recognition with Kelli Greene-Agnew at the No. 4 position. Seits won seven matches in utility usage as a sophomore in 2021. She is a Southern California native and prepped at Ramona HS where she helped lead the Bulldogs to three consecutive league championships (2015-17) and was a two-time All-River Valley Team selection. Seits graduated from Louisiana State with a Bachelor of Kinesiology and is the second LSU player to transfer to USC following Ashlyn Rasnick-Pope (2023).
Kriz earned AVCA All-America second-team laurels as a senior at Stanford and completed her time on The Farm with 73 career victories. She was 24-15 as a senior—including 15-7 at the No. 1 position with Xolani Hodel—and was named to the All-Pac-12 first team. Kriz was second-team All-Pac-12 as a junior in 2022 when she went 22-11 with a 15-5 mark at the No. 2 position with Charlie Ekstrom. She is a two-time AVCA Top Flight honoree, once with Ekstrom and once with Hodel, and…
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