Lane Carico makes quick jump to international competition
Former Mira Costa High School standout Lane Carico is competing on the international level in only her second full season as a professional beach volleyball player. Photo by Mpu Dinani/Getty Images When the World Series of Beach Volleyball was held in Long Beach last summer, Lane Carico walked away with a championship. A second title will be extremely more difficult this year. Competing in the inaugural WSOBV in 2013, Carico was a member of Team America – a group of women led by beach volleyball legend and fellow Manhattan Beach native Holly McPeak – that won the championship in the 6-man tournament. The stakes are much higher for Carico this week as she competes in the FIVB Grand Slam in only her second full season as a professional beach volleyball player. The 24-year-old Carico and partner Brittany Hochevar, of Hermosa Beach, would like nothing more than to have an impressive performance in front of friends and family on a world-wide stage in the featured tournament of the WSOBV that runs through Sunday. “I’m excited to have the FIBV return to Long Beach,” Carico said. “It was so much to be a part of last year. I felt so much positive energy and expect it to be even more so…
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