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Full name | Karsta Frances Lowe | ||||||||||||||||||
Born | San Diego, California, U.S. | February 2, 1993||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Rancho Santa Fe, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 315 cm (124 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
Block | 305 cm (120 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
College / University | UCLA | ||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Opposite | ||||||||||||||||||
Current club | Jakarta Livin' Mandiri | ||||||||||||||||||
Number | 25 (national team) 17 (UCLA) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Karsta Frances Lowe (born February 2, 1993) is an American volleyball player who was a first-team All-American at UCLA and who played for the United States women's national volleyball team. With the national team, she won the gold medal at the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix, and was honored as the Most Valuable Player. She also won bronze medals at the 2015 FIVB World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics. She has played professionally in Puerto Rico, Italy, China, Japan, and Indonesia.
Lowe played college women's volleyball at UCLA. [1] In 2014, she was selected as an AVCA first-team All-American. [2] [3]
Lowe was a member of the United States women's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix, and she was awarded Most Valuable Player of the tournament. [4] She also won bronze medals at the 2015 World Cup and at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. [5]
By 2019, she played for Imoco Volley in Italy. In February–March 2021, she participated in the inaugural season of Athletes Unlimited, a professional volleyball league in the United States. She finished fifth among all scorers with 3,566 total points. [6]
Lowe played with Japanese club JT Marvelous in the 2022–23 season. [7]
After the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lowe went back to school, earning a partial master's in Landscape Architecture from the University of Southern California. [8]
In 2022, Lowe took part in a TED Talk video presentation in which she shares her struggle with mental health and how she has found healing. She made the video to encourage those with mental health problems.
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