Traci Callahan

Traci is a graduate of Concordia University, Irvine, where she played volleyball. She was the 2005 NCAA Freshman of the Year, was named 1st team All-American each season, and was the 2009 Female Athlete of the Year when she lead her team to the national championships. In 2010, Traci (who never played beach volleyball previously) won the ABC “Battle of the Beach” beach volleyball television event against teams from around the world. She started her beach volleyball career in 2012 and quickly established herself as a blocker and qualified for the AVP Championships. In 2015, she retired from volleyball and became the Assistant Beach Volleyball Coach at Florida State. There, she led the team to a 2nd place finish in the NCAA Beach Volleyball National Championships. After a four-year break from the sand, Traci returned to the beach as the 2nd largest defender in the world. Her first tournament back on the AVP tour she took 7th. In 2020, she and her partner Crissy Jones were the only qualifying team to make all three main draw events in the AVP Champions Cup Series. The top 8 teams in the USA battled it out for a made-for-TV event; a 5th place finish in the Wilson Cup, 7th place finishes in the Monster Hydro Cup and the Porsche Cup made them the talk of the event. Their only losses came to the World Champs and the Olympic Champs who played in the finals of all 3 events. In 2023 Traci and her husband Matthew moved to Las Vegas where she started a beach volleyball club (Las Vegas Beach Volleyball) and hopes to pursue her education in UNLV's School of Medicine.