Carly Kan is a professional volleyball player from Oahu who recently became Hawai’i’s first AVP Champion. She graduated from Punahou where she earned 2013 Gatorade Player of the Year. She went on to play four years at the University of Missouri, where she was a 3x All-American and left the school as the 2nd All-Time Kills leader. She came back home to play two beach volleyball seasons as a grad student at University of Hawai’i at Manoa. After a year abroad playing professionally in Germany, Carly went back to the sand and won her first AVP Championship in 2022.

In today’s episode, she talks about the hardest part of her journey and what she’s doing to normalize the tougher parts of becoming a professional athlete.We recorded this episode at Central Pacific Bank’s Friendship Floor - a co-working space dedicated for CPB's remote and hybrid employees to work and collaborate from.

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