Brooke Sweat (born Brooke Youngquist; March 27, 1986) is an American 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, specializing as a defender. She started her career in 2007 with the
AVP tours. Sweat had her best ever international (
FIVB) finish with her then-partner
Jennifer Fopma, when they placed third at the 2013 Berlin Grand Slam.
Personal
Sweat graduated from
Florida Gulf Coast University. She is married to fellow AVP player, Nicholas Sweat.
Professional career
Rio de Janeiro 2016
She qualified for the 2016 Olympics in Rio with partner
Lauren Fendrick
Lauren Fendrick (born ) is an American beach volleyball player. She competed in beach volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics with teammate Brooke Sweat. In 2017, Fendrick and new teammate April Ross placed second at the FIVB Beach Volleyball Wo ...
. The pair played in Pool-A against Poland's Brzostek/Kolosinska (1-2), Brazil's Larissa/Talita (0-2), and Russia's Birlova/Ukolova (1-2), finishing in last place (0-3).
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1986 births
Living people
American women's beach volleyball players
Florida Gulf Coast University alumni
Sportspeople from Fort Myers, Florida
People from Hermosa Beach, California
Beach volleyball defenders
Beach volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic beach volleyball players of the United States
Florida Gulf Coast Eagles
21st-century American women
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