BATON ROUGE – Former LSU duo Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth will make their Olympic debut in Paris for Team USA in Women’s beach volleyball.
The blue uniforms they’ll be wearing are designed by a graphic designer from right here in Baton Rouge. The designer is Kenneth Hilliard, who started his graphic design page on social media called Hilliard Creative.
Growing up, Hilliard loved playing sports video games and creating custom uniforms for the athletes. He’s turned that passion into a career.
This year, Kloth, Nuss and the rest of the beach volleyball team, known as TKN, and Slunks, an apparel company, held a contest to design the pair’s Olympic uniforms. Hillard’s love of uniform creation and beach volleyball drove him to enter the contest.
“I love designing uniforms. I mean it’s fun to do. It gets your creative bubble out and then, especially for team USA, and them being …