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Getting To Know: Graduate Transfer Yasmin Kuck

As Georgia State beach volleyball prepares to open the spring 2022 season, our 'Getting To Know' segments will introduce the Sandy Panthers' four new graduate transfers as they get set to compete with the team. 

A graduate transfer from Stetson University, Yasmin Kuck enters the spring 2022 season as one of the newest members of the Georgia State beach volleyball team. In her sixth year of collegiate competition, Kuck will look to contribute to what promises to be another successful season for head coach Beth Van Fleet and the Panthers.

In addition to a talented roster that includes a total of ten experienced upperclassmen, Kuck is among four graduate transfers that will compete for GSU this spring.

Born in Germany and a native of France, Kuck comes from a family that is full of accomplished athletes. With her father having served as captain of the German men's national indoor volleyball team and her mother representing Canada in 1991 at the world student games for indoor volleyball, both of Kuck's parents played the sport at the professional level. Kuck's younger sister, Zoe, also currently plays collegiate indoor volleyball at Ryerson University in Toronto. 

The former-Hatter-turned-Panther knows a thing or two about success in athletics herself— both on as well as off the court. Kuck not only received All-Atlantic Sun Conference First Team honors for the 2021 season while at Stetson, but was also named to the ASUN Beach All-Academic Team the very same year. Additionally, Kuck was an ASUN All-Freshman in 2019 while maintaining ASUN Academic Honor Roll honors from 2019-2021.

Prior to joining the sand volleyball team at Stetson, Kuck competed for the Daytona State indoor volleyball team at the junior college level. Before her endeavors in college athletics, Kuck trained with the French national beach volleyball team for two years while in high school. She also participated in tennis, figure skating and swimming while growing up.

Kuck completed her bachelor's degree in business administration while at Stetson. She is currently studying entrepreneurship as a concentration in Georgia State's MBA program and plans to pursue a business venture of her own one day.

Kuck enjoys bike rides and skiing as hobbies in her free time. When the sixth year graduate transfer isn't competing in the sand, she still enjoys playing in it. Having never lived in an area further than 10 minutes from the beach, what Kuck has missed the most since moving to the city is having the ability to ride her bike to the beach. Apart from the new adjustment, Kuck maintains that the people she's had the opportunity to surround herself with have made it all worth it. 

"I'm still getting to know the city of Atlanta, but the highlight of this transition has been the people," Kuck said. "I absolutely love being a part of a team with so many amazing women."

Eager to grow and learn from the experience, Kuck is looking forward to the season as well as playing under coaches Van Fleet and Creamer.

"One thing I really admire about both Beth and Tiff is the perspective that they share on the game as well as the advice that they offer," Kuck said. "I am very much looking forward to a season filled with opportunities to grow with them and all of their advice along the way— through wins or losses."

GSU will open its season in New Orleans, La. at the Green Wave Invitational on Friday, Feb. 25. The Panthers' first match will be against Tulane at 10:30 a.m. ET. 
 
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Yasmin Kuck

#10 Yasmin Kuck

5' 11"
Graduate Student

Players Mentioned

Yasmin Kuck

#10 Yasmin Kuck

5' 11"
Graduate Student