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OLYMPIAN Alix Klineman is game, set ready to compete in the Tokyo Olympics.

Klineman has been playing volleyball and breaking records since high school.

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Who is Alix Klineman?

Alexandra “Alix” Klineman on December 30, 1989 and grew up in Manhattan Beach, California.

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She attended Mira Costa High School, where she was named 2005 and 2006 California Gatorade State Player of the Year for Volleyball, and the 2006 Gatorade National Player of the Year.

Klineman played volleyball at Stanford University where she studied Studio Art until she graduated in 2011.

Here, she was an all-American selection all four years, as well as the 2010 Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year.

Klineman went out to win a bronze medal with Team USA at the 2011 Pan American Games before playing volleyball in Italy and beginning her beach volleyball career.

How tall is Alix Klineman?

Klineman is 6 feet 5 inches tall.

She will represent Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics during summer 2021.

Her and fellow player April Ross make up one of four beach volleyball teams that will compete at the Olympic games.

In her Team USA bio, Klineman cites three things people do not know about her as “I skipped first grade. I want to take Portuguese and live in Brazil for a few years. I love dark chocolate.”

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When are the Tokyo Olympics?

The games were originally supposed to take place between July 24 and August 9, 2020.

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But because of the coronavirus pandemic, which also shelved football’s European Championships, the Tokyo Olympics were postponed for the first time in history.

The Olympics will now take place this summer, between July 23 and August 8.

It’s ‘highly unlikely’, however, that international spectators will be allowed into Japan to watch the events.