Sara Hughes is one of the richest Beach Volleyball Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sara Hughes's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
A star young beach volleyball athlete Hughes was a winner of many tournaments on the Amateur Athletic Union and California Beach Volleyball Association circuits. From 2004 until 2012, she was most often paired with Justine Wong-Orantes. She played as blocker. Together with Wong-Orantes Hughes finished ninth in her 2011 and 2012 U19 World Championships. Hughes also finished fourth in the 2012 World Championships for U21 alongside Summer Ross. The next the following year Hughes was able to play with Kelly Claes and transitioned into an all-time defender. The pair took bronze during the 2013 U19 World Championships and the 2014 World Championships for U21.
When she was still in high school and in college, Hughes competed as an amateur on both the national as well as international professional circuits. Her first professional result was a 17th-place finish during the 2011 Manhattan Beach Open. On October 12, 2012, she made her debut at her debut FIVB World Tour tournament, the $90k Bangsaen Thailand Open, where she as well as co-teammate Kaitlin Nielsen were eliminated in the opening round of the qualifying tournament for country quota. Hughes joined forces along with Lane Carico to win her first international tournament the following year in the $8K NORCECA event located in Boqueron, Cabo Rojo. Hughes was able to make her Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) debut with Geena Urango in the 75K Milwaukee Open in 2014, but she didn’t make it beyond those qualifying stages. When she teamed up together with Kelly Claes, her results improved over the following two years, which was highlighted by the addition of three NORCECA titles as well as two AVP semi-final appearances.
Hughes began her beach volleyball training in Huntington Beach, California, at the age of eight. As a junior, she partnered with Kelly Claes to win bronze medals at the 2013 U19 and 2014 U21 World Championships. Her partnership with Claes continued through college, where the pair won 103 consecutive collegiate matches and led the USC Trojans to back-to-back NCAA Championships in 2016 and 2017. Soon after turning professional in mid-2017, Hughes and Claes became the youngest team to win an AVP event when they won the season-ending Championship. Hughes split from Claes in early 2018 and teamed up with S. Ross. In their first year playing together, Hughes and S. Ross won their first World Tour title and entered the top ten of the world rankings.
