Former LSU beach volleyball duo qualify for Summer Olympics [Video]

BATON ROUGE, La. — Mount Carmel’s Kristen Nuss and her longtime beach volleyball partner Taryn Kloth will represent the United States at this 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

The Olympic qualifying season ended on Sunday and TKN is the top American team in the points standings, thanks in large part to winning the 2023 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Finals in Doha, Qatar, in December.

The victory was the third high-level gold for Kloth and Nuss this year, after wins at the La Paz Challenge and the Uberlandia Elite16. 

TKN finished with the most points of any American team and second-most in the world.

It’s a huge accomplishment for the former LSU duo, who WWL Louisiana has followed closely since they turned pro back in 2021.

WWL’s Ricardo LeCompte caught up with the pair training in Baton Rouge.

“It definitely made all the hard workouts, the Louisiana summers being absolutely …