14 Facts About Elaine Youngs

Elaine Youngs was red-shirted, returning for the 1991 season to help the team to win the national title.

Elaine Youngs led the Bruins to the Final Four in each of the four seasons that she played.

Elaine Youngs earned All-American honors in each of those four years.

Elaine Youngs spent two seasons playing on the Bruins basketball team, averaging 5.7 points per game.

Elaine Youngs graduated in 1993 with a degree in history.

Elaine Youngs was on the USA Volleyball indoor team and won a silver medal at the 1994 Goodwill Games.

Elaine Youngs played in the 1996 Olympics, where the women placed seventh.

In 1998 Elaine Youngs partnered with Nancy Reno until Nancy retired from pro beach volleyball.

In 2001 Elaine Youngs partnered with Barbra Fontana, and from 2002 to 2004 partnered with Holly McPeak, winning the Beach Volleyball bronze medal together in the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Elaine Youngs teamed with Rachel Wacholder for the 2005 and much of the 2006 season.

On September 8,2007, Elaine Youngs won the Goddess of the Beach tournament for the first time in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Branagh and Elaine Youngs achieved fifth place in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and continued playing together in the 2009 season.

Elaine Youngs retired from professional volleyball at the end of the 2010 season.

In 2002 Elaine Youngs was chosen as the MVP of the Association of Volleyball Professionals.