Alix Klineman

MANHATTAN BEACH — Alix Klineman described the last few months for her and teammate April Ross as a “roller coaster.” At the AVP Manhattan Beach Open on Sunday, the cart on the Tokyo Olympic gold medalists’ roller coaster was speeding fast. “We were pretty exhausted, mentally and emotionally,” Ross said....

Olympians will be gracing the sands surrounding Manhattan Beach Pier this weekend as the AVP Gold Series returns to Southern California with the AVP Manhattan Beach Open. With a $250,000 prize purse, it’s the second event of the Gold Series, following the Atlanta Open and preceding the Chicago Open. Headlining...

Among the women of Team USA who made history with dominating performances in Tokyo are April Ross and Alix Klineman, gold medalists in beach volleyball. Now they bring their Olympic spirits to the TODAY plaza live. “I wanted to walk around and share my medal with everybody,” Ross says. “This homecoming’s been pretty amazing.” They also explain how they teamed up.Aug. 9, 2021.

Those who knew Alix Klineman at Mira Costa High School would have been surprised if she hadn’t won gold at the Tokyo Olympics. (Reprinted from Easy Reader, Nov. 2006) When Alix Klineman received the Gatorade Player of the Year award in November 2006, prior to the Bay League Championship game against rival Redondo Union, she never once raised her arms — or the plaque — to acknowledge the applause that made Fisher Gymnasium rock like Staples Center after a Kobe Bryant dunk.

Though Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor dominated the beach volleyball scene at the Summer Olympic Games for the better part of a decade, there's a new(er) pair who has officially won gold in Tokyo. April Ross, who actually won silver with Kerri in the 2016 Olympic Games, and Alix...

From the court to the sand, hosts Lolo Jones and Lindsay Czarniak catch up with American volleyball players about their Olympic journeys. First, Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson stopped by to chat about the ways her team stayed connected during the pandemic and how she's representing "all the moms out there" in her return to the Olympics after giving birth in November. She also discusses the new professional volleyball league starting in America and her "fierce" teammates.

It's beach volleyball gold for Team USA's April Ross and Alix Klineman! The "A Team" defeated Australians Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy in a match they controlled from the start, looking every bit the dominant competitors who went undefeated in seven matches in Tokyo. In fact, Ross and...

Alix Klineman wasn't the obvious choice to partner beach volleyball veteran April Ross, who had previously won silver in London with Jennifer Kessy and bronze in Rio with Kerri Walsh Jennings. But Ross saw something in the former indoor volleyball player when they teamed up in 2017. And on Friday at the Tokyo Olympics, they showed the world she was right.

TOKYO -- April Ross now has the complete set of Olympic beach volleyball medals: silver in London, bronze in Rio de Janeiro and a gold she won with Alix Klineman at the Tokyo Games on Friday with a victory over Australia. The Americans beat Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua...