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Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings (born August 15, 1978) is an American professional beach volleyball player, three-time Olympic gold medalist, and a one-time Olympic bronze medalist. [1] She is the beach volleyball leader in career victories as of 2016 having won 135 international and domestic tournaments.
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the court.
Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor (/ ˈ t r eɪ n ər /; née May; born July 30, 1977) is an American retired professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and as of August 2012, was the most successful female beach volleyball player having won 112 tournaments in domestic and international competition.
In Tokyo, the country was shut out at the Summer Games for the first time since beach volleyball was added to the program in 1996. Three years later, Brazil not only returned to the podium but ...
Kelly Marie Cheng (née Claes, born September 18, 1995) is an American beach volleyball player. She and her partner Sara Hughes won the bronze medal at the 2013 U19 World Championships, the silver medal at the 2014 U21 World Championships, the gold medal at the 2023 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships and back-to-back NCAA Championships in 2016 and 2017.
Team USA beach volleyball player's Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss are seeing success at the 2024 Paris Olympics. ... Kristen is five feet six inches–the shortest shortest woman to be on the women ...
Juliana Felisberta da Silva (born 22 July 1983) is a Brazilian female beach volleyball player who won the silver medal in the women's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany and the 2009 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Stavanger, Norway, partnering with Larissa França.
Regarded as one of the top high school recruits for both beach and indoor, [10] Hughes committed to playing beach volleyball for the USC Trojans in her junior year of high school. [15] Beach volleyball had just become an NCAA Emerging Sport for Women at the time [16] and Hughes decided to forgo collegiate indoor volleyball as "sand was [her ...