GUADALAJARA, Mexico — It was only two years ago, but they had almost forgotten. Hailey Harward and Kylie Deberg came to Mexico for this week’s Beach Pro Tour Guadalajara Challenge fresh off a gold medal at a NORCECA in the Dominican Republic.
Did it feel a bit full circle, they were asked, after they played a most random Futures in the Netherlands a few years back? Their faces registered the full spectrum — confused (did we?), recognition (oh wow, we did!), amusement. They were just kids back then — all the way back in December of 2022.
Harward has since become an AVP champion, a defender skilled enough, with a ceiling so high, that Alix Klineman picked her up for the 2023 World Championships. Deberg, still new to the beach after competing on the sand during her grad year at LSU, has since won a Tour Series and taken a seventh at the Manhattan Beach Open.
Now they are both in the USA Volleyball developmental pipeline, under the…
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