Taryn Brasher

They had a decent AVP League season, didn't make the playoffs, but then on the AVP itself, they finished the year nine and two.

Their only losses, Kristen Cruz and Taryn Brasher, and Kelly Chang and Megan Kraft, both of those come in at the Manhattan Beach Open, where they took third.

So they played two AVPs.

They qualified for the AVP League.

As far as the women goes, number one for me, can Kelly Chang and Megan Kraft do it again? So a week ago, Meg kind of got that big monkey off the back, won a major tournament in Hermosa.

Yes, Kristen Cruz and Taryn Brasher were not there.

Yes, Melissa Humala Paredes and Brandi Wilkerson were not there.

But in came Katja Stam and Reijr Schoon, so there's not a big asterisk on that for me.

And if anybody's gonna say, you know, it's not a, a professional win 'cause it's not on BVB and it's not, uh, tied to any organization, same thing I said about Miles Evans when him and Chase Budinger won it two years ago, this, this field is a professional field.

The only major teams missing were Kristen Cruz and Taryn Brasher, that's a major team, and Melissa Manaparas and Brandie Wilkerson, also a major team.

But what you make up for is you get Katjusztam and Räsäsen.

They come in as a wildcard, one of the best teams in the world.

You, you have everyone except for the top two teams, but- Katia and Raisa, one of the top teams in the world, y- you had so much talent everywhere, and for them to not drop a set en route to that win, that's the team I've been seeing.

And so if, i- if there's any Kelly Chang haters left in the house, where are you guys at? Because [laughs] what more would this team have to do to sell you guys that they are, far and away, the number two team in the United States? To me, they're still the number two team in the world.

You got Kristen Cruz and Taryn Brasher, they're in a tier of their own this year.

And then you have Kelly Chang and Megan Kraft, number two team, to me, in the world, and in the United States.