BATON ROUGE –Claire Coppola and Kristen Nuss, LSU Beach Volleyball's all-time wins leaders, were named to the volleyballmag.com All-America team on Tuesday evening.
The senior duo has helped take the LSU Beach program to national prominence, leading the Tigers to appearances at the NCAA Championships in each of the past three seasons. LSU made its best run at the tournament last season when it made it to the NCAA semi-finals and finished as the No. 3 team in the country.
LSU was ranked the preseason No. 2 team in the nation by DiG Magazine on January 13, a program-best ranking.