Brooke Niles (also previously known as Brooke Hanson) (born March 11, 1981) is a professional

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...

player from the

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. She plays on the FIVB World Tour and Top US Pro Tour. Niles played volleyball at the

University of California-Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the Un ...

. She is Team Captain of 2012 ksm beach. Niles and teammate Lauren Fendrick currently sat 3rd in US qualification (Feb. 2012) for the 2012 London Olympics and ranked 10th in the world after their first full season together playing on the FIVB World Tour and the top US Pro tours. In 2011 the team was one of the hottest, winning the U.S. Open, Miami Pro & AVP Championship & NORCECA Cayman Islands. Niles was a four-year letter winner at UC-Santa Barbara and a third-team All-American in 2002 while ranking third nationally in assists. As an outside hitter, she was named the Big West Freshman of the Year in 1999, and three times was selected to the all-conference team. Niles graduated from UCSB ranked fifth in career digs, sixth in assists, and eighth in aces. In 2012, Niles became the first professional athlete to offer to brand a permanent tattoo with a corporate partner through a social media auction. In May 2016, she was named the 2016 AVCA Beach National Coach of the Year for her work with the

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beach volleyball team.

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Florida State coaching profile
* * * 1981 births Living people American women's volleyball players American women's beach volleyball players Pan American Games competitors for the United States Beach volleyball players at the 2007 Pan American Games UC Santa Barbara Gauchos women's volleyball players 21st-century American women {{US-volleyball-bio-stub