Megan Kraft

Meg started playing indoor volleyball at age 10 at Coast Volleyball Club and started beach volleyball two years later with Coach Derek Olson. At 15, she left indoor club to focus on beach at Wave Volleyball Club. She continued playing high school indoor through her senior year at Torrey Pines HS, where they won a California State Championship in 2019. 2023 is Meg’s third season at USC, where she played on back-to-back NCAA National Championship teams. She’s a two-time All-American, 2021 PAC-12 Freshman of the Year, and won Pair of the Year with partner Tina Graudina. She qualified for her first AVP Main Draw in Huntington Beach in 2019 at age 16 with Delaynie Maple. Later that summer, the pair finished 5th at Hermosa Beach AVP. Meg is a member of the USA Volleyball Beach National Team, training with Coach Scott Davenport, and has competed internationally in 17 events on six continents. She won the 2021 U19 World Championship with Delaynie Maple in 2021, and has FIVB Futures gold medals in 2022 with current partner Emily Stockman and Savvy Simo.

Meg has a twin brother who plays baseball in college. She attributes at least some of her discipline and focus to her parents, who both served as military officers, her father a Marine Corps Harrier Jet Pilot, and her mother a Navy Clinical Psychologist who served in Iraq in a Marine Corps combat hospital. When not playing or working out, Meg enjoys attending daily mass when able, eating chicken and pasta, studying accounting, and listening to her favorite artists, either Taylor Swift or Social Distortion.