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UCLA-bound Piper Monk-Heidrich feels her strongest assets are her hitting and blocking at the net. Mira Costa High School junior Piper Monk-Heidrich focuses on beach volleyball and a future at UCLA Coach Eric Fonoimoana believes blocking is the strength of Piper Monk-Heidrich’s game. Photo by Kat Monk Racing down the slopes on her snowboard, 10-year-old Piper Monk-Heidrich was doing her best to keep up with her older sister Indigo, an Olympic hopeful training for a berth on the U.S. Snowboarding 2014 Winter Olympics team. But when the aches and pains suffered by falling on the hard-packed snow began to take their toll, coupled with a growth spurt, Piper decided to change sports. Although Monk-Heidrich swam and played soccer and volleyball as a young girl, she had been picked up by Burton Smallz as a snowboarder when she was only seven years old, riding for the Burton team. By the time she was nine years old, Monk-Heidrich was so tall that she outgrew the Burton youth clothing, forcing her to have Burton’s outerwear specially tailored for her so that she could model in their photo shoots on the mountain. She had also been playing beach and club volleyball, but just for fun…
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