Grace Abdoo is a junior at Long Beach Poly High School. She is currently in the P.A.C.E program and is the Libero on the varsity volleyball team. Grace played on JV as a Freshman and Sophomore and has been on varsity since her Junior year. Grace also plays on Club Apex as a Libero and Defensive Specialist. Grace started coming to speed camps at Champion’s QUEST in 2011, after 3 years of speed camps she finally became a Champion’s QUEST athlete in Fall 2013, focusing mainly on private sessions and volleyball clinics. Since her time here, Grace is currently tied for third out of all our athletes with an overall score of 84/100. Grace is also only half an inch away from reaching her older sister’s standing vertical jump, which is 29”.
Last month Grace won the U16 girls’ division of the California Beach Volleyball Association Youth Tournament at Granada Beach, with her partner Kamyrn Parsonage from Los Alamitos High School. And the other week Grace was in Detroit for the Junior Olympics with her club team. When Grace was 12 she went to her first Junior Olympics and she has qualified every year after that.
Grace hopes to continue her volleyball career playing for the University of Portland, and study accounting.
Recently Grace had an article written about here in the Grunion Gazette, you can find the article below.
