Jenny Johnson Jordan

Jennifer "Jenny" Johnson Jordan ( born June 8, 1973 in Tarzana ) is an American beach volleyball player.

Career

Jordan came to UCLA to play volleyball. In 1996 she played her first international Beach tournament with Katy Eldridge. From 1997 Annett Davis became her permanent sporting partner. In the 1999 World Cup Davis / Jordan documents only in the finale the Brazilians Adriana Behar and Bede Shelda. Then they won the Espinho Open. After winning next year's tournament in Marseille, they qualified with the world's second best result for the Olympic Games in Sydney. There they occupied after a quarterfinal defeat by the Japanese duo Takahashi / Saiki fifth. Because of her first pregnancy, she had to make 2001 a sporting break.

In 2002, she returned to the AVP Tour and reached for all stations at least the semifinals. The following year, Davis / Jordan came in four Grand Slams in the top 5 at the World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, they missed by a 0-2 against the Aussies Cook / Sanderson a medal. Although they were in Shanghai, Stavanger and Marseille in 2004, respectively in the final, she missed qualifying for the Olympic tournament in Athens. In Huntington Beach had its hundredth appearance together and were thereby playing together the longest duo in the USA. In 2005, she gave birth to her second child. In the following years she only played on the AVP Tour, where she managed numerous other top rankings with Davis.

Family

Jordan's father Rafer Johnson won the decathlon in 1956 in Melbourne and Olympic silver in Rome in 1960 the gold medal.