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Ainsley Cusick Kerri Walsh Comp/Career Due: September 25, 2014 For years the USA Beach Volleyball team was named as the “Best Beach Volleyball Team in History.” Who led them to victory? Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings, born August 15,1978 in Santa Clara California. Stands 6’2 inches with the nickname of Six Feet Of Sunshine.Kerri is an American Professional Beach volleyball player, she is married to Casey Jennings, who is also a professional beach volleyball player. Together they have three children, two boys and one girl. Walsh was actually pregnant during the 2012 London Olympics but doctors confirmed Kerri didn’t put herself or the child in any danger while competing. She has been playing volleyball since she made her high …show more content…

Then 1996, she was named as their first Girl's National Volleyball Player Of The Year and graduated. Kerri then went on to college at Stanford University where she was titled four-year first-team All-American then Final Four MVP in 1996 and co-National Player Of The Year in 1999. Kerri graduated from Stanford in 2000 with a Americans Studies. Later on in her career Kerri played professional beach volleyball in the USA AVP Tour and internationally on the FIVB World Tour. In addition to her training on the sand split between Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles, California, Walsh has been training in the gym at O.C. Fast-Twitch since 2002 with famous trainer Tommy Knox. Together they went to the 2003 Rio de Janeiro World Championships, 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, 2005 Berlin World Championships, 2007 Gstaad World Championships, 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, and the 2012 London Summer Olympics winning gold at all of them there they were named “best beach volleyball team in history”. “ Kerri has also made a few media appearances. In February 2006, Walsh Jennings had a guest-starring role in an episode of CSI along with several other AVP Volleyball players. Walsh Jennings hosts a

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