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Career Accolades

  • All-Pac-12 Freshman Team (2023)
  • 2023 AVCA Top Flight Award (with partner Ashley Vincent)

As a Freshman (2023)

  • All-Pac-12 Freshman Team
  • AVCA Top Flight Award (with partner Ashley Vincent)
  • Finished freshman season with 28 wins, the second-most wins in a single season in program history
  • Finished with a 28-7 record, playing all matches with partner Ashley Vincent, setting a new program record for wins in a single season as a pair
  • Played primarily on courts 3 and 4
  • Had a 4-1 record on court 3 with Vincent
  • Earned 18 wins over ranked opponents (as of playing) including top-5 opponents UCLA, USC, and LSU

Prior to Stanford

  • Graduate of Marymount High School in Los Angeles, Calif. 
  • Played for Marymount’s indoor volleyball team
    • CIF Southern Section, region, state, and national champions in 2021
    • Led high school team to a 35-0 record and No. 1 national ranking as a senior
      • First undefeated season in school history
    • Mission League champions (2021)
    • PrepVolleyball First Team All-American (2021)
    • MaxPreps All-America First Team (2021)
  • Club participation: Elite Beach Volleyball (2018-2022)
    • 15 National/ State Championships 
    • Three-time inductee into California Beach Volleyball Association (CBVA) Hall of Fame
    • Highest adult player rating (AAA) since age 13 

National Team

  • Member of USA Volleyball A1 High-Performance Team for seven consecutive years
    • Three-time winner of USAV High-Performance National Championship

Personal

  • Parents are Jim and Leslie Belardi
  • Has two siblings, John Belardi and Davis Waugh
  • Father, Jim competed at Stanford as a part of the men’s swimming team and was a 1976 and 1098 Olympic Swimming Trials participant
  • Brother, Davis competed in Water Polo at LMU
  • Aunt, Christa, competed as a swimmer at UCLA and participated in the 1972 Olympic Swimming Trials
  • Uncle, Steve competed in both football and tennis at Cal State Fullerton