Kelly Belardi Season 2024

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