Kerri Walsh Jennings

Kerri Lee Walsh ( born August 15, 1978 in Santa Clara, California ) is a professional American beach volleyball player. The 1.91 meter tall Walsh won 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympic victory with her partner Misty May- Treanor. Together with May- Treanor they also won three times the FIVB World Championship and was successful between 2007 and 2008 in 112 consecutive tournament games. She is considered one of the most successful beach volleyball players in the history.

Career

Walsh began her career at Stanford University and initially played volleyball in the hall. There Walsh became a member of the U.S. National Team (1999 and 2000) and took part in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney as an outside attacker in part, where the U.S. were fourth. Then Walsh took the step to beach volleyball and participated in both the U.S. tour AVP and on the Euro-Asian tour of the FIVB. Right away she won with her partner Misty May- Treanor 2002 FIVB Beach Tour 2002 and was the most valuable player chosen. In 2003, she repeated this success and was also the first time the FIVB World Championship in Rio de Janeiro.

The first highlight of her career made ​​winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games, in which charges May Treanor and not a single sentence in the tournament. Between 2003 and 2004, the duo remained 89 times undefeated. Walsh and May- Treanor won in 2005 and 2007, twice the FIVB World Cup, and Walsh was elected three times in a row by the FIVB for Best Hitter, Best Blocker and Best player. In June 2007 started a new winning streak that ended after 112 consecutive victories on 31 August 2008 for the pair. The nineteenth and last tournament victory in this series was the re winning the gold medal at the Olympic Games 2008. Career With a prize money of over one million dollars Walsh is also one of the most financially successful player of all time.

In October 2008, Walsh had to find a new partner since May- Treanor tore the Achilles tendon. With countrywoman Nicole Branagh, who brought fifth place in Beijing, she continued to dominate the beach volleyball. The new couple remained until January 2009 unbeaten in 75 matches. Walsh was at that time pregnant in the second month and announced an early maternity leave.

With Rachel Wacholder Walsh played their first comeback in 2009 Tournaments in the AVP. Soon after, Walsh was pregnant again, so they had to cancel their return to professional sport. After she had given birth to her second child to the world in the summer of 2010, played the double Olympic Champion with Branagh their first FIVB tournament after the break. After victories over the reigning World Champions Kessy / Ross and her countrywomen Akers / Turner, the two U.S. women failed initially to the German Goller / Ludwig and then to the Brazilian sisters Maria Clara / Carol and used in the final standings in Sanya the shared fifth place. In the Thailand Open in Phuket in November 2010 Kerri Walsh succeeded in their second tournament after having children together with Nicole Branagh 's first victory.

At the World Tour 2011 Kerri Walsh started again on the side of Misty May- Treanor with the aim of participating in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. After a second place in April at the Brasilia Open, Misty May- Treanor injured in the semifinals of the Sanya Open in late April at the knee, followed by Kerri Walsh started in mid-May at the side of Brittany Hochevar in Poland. An impressive comeback from May-Trenor/Walsh there was early June after winning the Grand Slam in Beijing, and then in Rome in the World Championship was achieved. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 both were for the third time Olympic champion. Then they separated, May- Treanor finished her volleyball career.

List of successes

All achievements up to and including September 2008 Walsh won with Misty May- Treanor.

  • Olympic champion in 2012 ( London)
  • 2008 Olympic Champion ( Beijing)
  • 2004 Olympic Champion (Athens)
  • FIVB World Cup 2003 ( Rio de Janeiro ), 2005 (Berlin ) and 2007 ( Gstaad)
  • FIVB Best Hitter (2005, 2006, 2007 )
  • FIVB Best Blocker (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 )
  • AVP Team of the Year (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 )
  • FIVB Sports Person of the Year (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 )
  • FIVB Best Offensive Player ( 2007)
  • FIVB Most Outstanding Player ( 2007)
  • AVP Most Valuable Player (2002, 2003)
  • AVP Best Offensive Player ( 2003)
  • AVP Best Defensive Player ( 2008)
  • FIVB Tour Champion (2002)

Private life

Walsh is the daughter of Margie and Tim Walsh and has two younger sisters, Kelli and KC, as well as an older brother named Marte. Her father was once a baseball player, and her mother a two-time MVP ( Most Valuable Player ) in volleyball in Santa Clara. Walsh married on December 4, 2005 Casey Jennings, who is also a professional beach volleyball player. She has a degree in American Studies from Stanford University.

Walsh is a mother of two boys, who were born respectively in 2009 and 2010, and a daughter, who was born 2013.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Association of Volleyball Professionals April Ross Sara Goller Laura Ludwig 2011 Beach Volleyball World Championships Sandra Pires Jackie Silva Kerri Pottharst
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