Sponcil and new partner Torrey Van Winden met after Van Winden reached out to her via Instagram
Last week, Sponcil traveled to Sydney, Australia representing Team USA to compete in the Four Nations U21 Tournament. After meeting and competing for the first time just over a month ago at the Beach HP U21 Team Trials in Chula Vista and only practicing once before the Four Nations tournament, Sponcil and her partner Van Winden went 4-0 to earn a gold medal.
One week before the Team Trials, both Sponcil and Van Winden were originally supposed to play with Pepperdine University athletes, but Pepperdine’s Head Coach requested that his athletes not compete for Team USA, as their beach volleyball season was just underway.